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Tammy Scrambler Gets a Facelift

Chamba said:
I made a car so nice one time that I would never drive it. I would NEVER drive it if it even hinted at rain or snow. I had it for years and every time I drove it I checked the bloody weather forecast. I swore I would never do that again when I sold it..... so I haven't. I drive mine rain or shine. Good for you!
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Hmmm…
 
Well this was a treat yesterday! Picked up my interior from the upholstery shop out in Portland. Revive PDX usually does vintage furniture restoration but the have a good friend who does some work with them and the owner happens to have a passion for auto restoration so he took on the project with me.
My partner does large ship interior design and refitting and their shop had some bolts of Majelite fabric. It’s a high wear and water resistant faux leather and happened to be in a really nice dark chocolate brown/burgundy/black looking color. Figured it would work perfect for Tammy! Well, the guy knocked it outta the park on these and I am absolutely tickled. He refurbed the foam and that back lasts and gave it some firmness and bounce. I also cut some new panels out of some marine grade door skin that actually came on the crate for the MD JUAN tub because I hated the cardboard in the old ones and he wrapped those. He matched the line work on the center pad and boom, we have interior. It kinda broke the budget wide open, but honestly after pricing out all the pieces new separately, it wasn’t much more. And hey, you can’t put a price on comfort AND style!
 

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Those seats are freakin’ beautiful! The complementing colors are great. You are going to have one sexy Scrambler!
 
After a few weeks of fighting with the heater box and fresh air fitment along with a host of other minor but time consumingfitment issues, I’m finally making some headway again. Firewall holes grew, welds got welded, cut and repeated, paint got scratched, wrenches got thrown. Honestly did a lot, and documented it all, but there was very few workmanship and decisions I was happy sharing. I know I know, it’s not all about the wins… I spent a lot of time pre fitting what I thought was everything but didn’t realize that meant LITERALLY EVERYTHING! Love seeing this little girl starting to look like a Jeep again.
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oregonscrambler said:
After a few weeks of fighting with the heater box and fresh air fitment along with a host of other minor but time consumingfitment issues, I’m finally making some headway again. Firewall holes grew, welds got welded, cut and repeated, paint got scratched, wrenches got thrown. Honestly did a lot, and documented it all, but there was very few workmanship and decisions I was happy sharing. I know I know, it’s not all about the wins… I spent a lot of time pre fitting what I thought was everything but didn’t realize that meant LITERALLY EVERYTHING! Love seeing this little girl starting to look like a Jeep again.
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Boy do I know what you meant about pre-fitting. I have been fighting that monster ever since I got it back from paint. It has yet to bite me hard, but there’s a few things that I haven’t conquered yet. Like the radiator/grille fittment.
Yours is looking amazing! Like I said- can’t wait to see it on the road!
 
Whelp, things took an interesting turn. Yep he been pluggin away at the wiring and routing and grounding and testing and also messing around with the Sniper fri. Took a lil bit, but I can safely say Tammy runs. My grand plan was to spend a 3 day weekend buttoning up for a Sunday test drive. In no way finished, but would help me make a new finishing/fixin list.

Facebook classified pages threw a wrench into those plans… instead I spent Friday driving for a set of barely used 33x10.5x15 km3s which are exactly what I wanted and apparently sold out across the states. They are Toyota rims, so I’ll swap out my barely used tires and hopefully resell. Then yesterday I did a 9 hour round trip for what I didn’t think I’d ever get ahold of… Grizzly full top! And in pretty good shape too! This will help with the Oregon winter driving.

I still think I’ll get a quick test drive in this afternoon. Wish me luck!

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Except it sticks out like a dog's bollocks. Now you either need to get Tammy all kinds of faded and dirty or repaint the top. I vote for painting the top.
 
Yeah yeah yeah. I’m gonna polish it up for the winter and few it out, get some road grit on the tub, and do a full clean/seal/paint next summer. Baby steps.

I am kinda not as into the look as much as the half top. It looks less sexy, more utilitarian. But then again, this will become my daily and Oregon is definitely known for it’s fickle weather.
 
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