Starting on the top

Since my car cover arrived a few days back, I've been wanting to get out there and remove the convertible top. No time until today when I had about 30 minutes to start poking around. I was also able to take a few more pics.


Here's the finished dashboard from Saturday:



A closer look at what was under the knobs (still hoping I didn't break any of them)



The glove compartment - it doesn't appear there is a decent way to remove the box itself. It's held in by a metal strap in the trunk. Note the handle above had to be removed before I could remove the entire dashboard.


Another shot of the interior. Notice that I didn't finish removing the soundproof material on the passenger side. I'm pretty sure we're going to need to cut the whole piece out to weld in a new floor.

Another shot of the rusted floor.


And the battery compartment - you can see the concrete right below it.

Before I get back to the convertible top, here's a better picture of the seat lever you need to push to get the seats out.

So, the top... here's a shot of the back window (or what was the back window).



Where did she come from!!??

Here's the front header piece of the top. I did take the screws out, but there must be another step to start releasing the material from behind it. Since I was a bit stuck there...

I started taking out all these little screws from the side of the top. The screws are hidden beneath the rubber weather strip and I believe once they are all out I'll be able to start removing the material, at least from the sides. Unfortunately, the folding mechanism seems to be pretty rusted at the moment so the top won't open. It's not clear to me yet how much of it will be salvageable so I don't want to push to hard and break it if I can help it.

Unfortunately, that's about all I got done today.