Here's a tiny bit of progress. Yesterday and the day before we had miserable cold rain so I stayed inside. Two days ago it was 58 F in the garage and I cut out cardboard templates of kick panels for the upholsterer in the front and the rumble quarter panels. As usual you just have to do stuff to see what comes next and I now realize I have four speakers on my AM/FM so where to put the rear speakers? It also means new wires from under the dash to the remote speakers. Thanks for the several suggestions, I think I will still use 1/8" luan plywood for the front kick panels but let the upholsterer use their hardboard for the rear with whatever stitching they do. I did want some accessory pockets in the rear quarter panels for tools and small spare parts but the right rear is now cluttered up with the fuel filter; maybe I can still get one large pocket inside the left quarter panel. I think the plywood in the front is needed to make guitar-like sounding boxes for the main front speakers and take whatever normal kicks occur from squirming around inside the small cockpit but that means I need to get these finalized before I route the wires from under the dash. I can mount the rear speakers on a flat panel in the rumble seat on the back of the front seat and that means wires there too. IC2 do you have rear speakers and if so where did you put them? It is sunny today so maybe I can cut out the luan panels for the front.

Don Shillady
Retired SCientist/teen rodder