New to me 78 Tique

I do image upload direct from my computer. It is a bit of a pain which is why my updates are a little far apart. Would be nice to be able to post from iPhone!

Heat stamped pleated vinyl is available from quite a few manufacturers. Not quite original but very close. And whose counting anyway

Finished glassing the floor and put in the pylon plates (thanks Duane).





More taping for black outline. Hoping to shoot black tomorrow or thurs.



Carpet is glued in and just needs to be trimmed.





Muffler has gone through some glass work. It was just a little cracked under there

Dave,
Yes, your build is moving faster than any other I've seen. Nice work!

Did you make any attempt to find the original grass turf type carpet?

When we did the Black we used a air brush like they use to paint t-shirts. Spray half on boat and half on the paper.

samudj01 wrote: That is grass style outdoor marine backed carpet.

Ok but maybe it's the picture that makes the carpet look grey or you didn't go original??

The yellow accent boats back then would have had this tan yellowish brown turf style:

Ahh, I have been educated on carpet heat-transfer properties. And I do get the originality

Ultra...

That yellow brown stuff if available is hideous. Charcoal looks great! You guys still want to sell that boat? j/k

We believe our original to be yellow and black. Although we couldn’t find it produced today. On a previous page I outlined the colors we found. For those doubters about the yellow and black, I have a pic of some we found in the boat, just a scrap though. While keeping it original with grass carpet, the grey was an easy choice. Will make the yellow upholstery pop

As for the airbrush outline. I tried on a test board and it looked bad. Partly bc I didn’t have a steady hand and also bc every bit of over-spray could be seen on the yellow (think it would blend better on blue, green or dark red).. We decided solid black looked nice previously so we are going back, just paint this time. From the standpoint of taping, I wish the boat had just been yellow!

Coming along nicely

Heat pleated.

We are for the most part done. Since the last update, we pulled the tape on the graphics, added stickers and emblems, dropped the engine in, aligned it, and started putting on everything else. What a learning process this has been.







Anyone want to guess the number of cans in the pile?



And what we towed to white lake:









Thanks to everyone for questions answered and advice that was given to us. We are very happy with how this first one turned out. How many do you need...just one more.

It showed very well both in and out of the water. Nice work fellas

Time to fire up the pool on the empties outside the barn. Greg / Donald not allowed to participate in the pool

Really awesome to see it on the water. That had to be one satisifying ride, all that work and to have it looking and running that well is quite an accomplishment!

Fantastic job guys.!