![]() Then onto the fun stuff, I fabbed up some braces and mounted the new, very cool, articulating hinges. Original manufacturers of high-quality removable hatch-style Tonneau bed covers for classic and late model pickup trucks and El Caminos. But hey, I did it and got everything I need for less than $50. I'm 60 years old and not fond of this kind of thing anymore. ***How do you open the latched trunk on a car in a wrecking yard? Remove the back seat and crawl in through the wet and moldy trunk and pull the glow in the dark emergency escape cord. I did a quick search of the local "pick and pull" wrecking yard, but alas, no Infinities in stock.īut, I did more research and the same part number hinge is used on lot on Nissan cars (of course.)įound a 2012 Maxima at the local place and went down there and scored not only the hinges, but the electronic solenoid latch and striker assembly. Not only do they articulate up and out as the trunk opens, they have compact hydraulic cylinders on each hinge to hold the trunk lid up. They are a really cool articulating setup. While I was thinking, I opened the trunk of my daily driver, a 2014 Infinity Q60S and started studying the hinges. I'd been thinking about a solution for the hinges on this thing, original plan was just a basic piano hinge arrangement, but I didn't think that would be all that cool and might have some issues and I kept trying to think of other approaches. Available at Home Depot.Progress on the "trunk" for the el Camino. ![]() Note the aluminum angle shape we screwed on the back edge to clean that up. This is a tough surface but doesn't negate the need for a bed cover or weather will soon degrade it. We painted the boards with automotive catalyzed urethane clear coat and sanded and polished them as we would a body to bring out the beautiful Tigerwood grain. Bed strip bolts anchor it all together through holes drilled into the steel floor. Once all the parts were made we trial fitted it all together. We had to glue up the Tigerwood to make the side boards that step around the wheel wells Here are the dimensions that need to be cut into the edges of the boards to fit the bed strips Then we machined up the bed boards to accommodate after market supplied stainless '53 Chevy pickup bed strips. These align with the bolt holes in the bed strips so thoses bolt go through these spacers. We used urethane adhesive, available at Home Depot. In retrospect we would have welded in a flush panel.Īfter undercoating the station wagon floor (that's what it is, Elky is built on a station wagon platform!) we glued down spacers made from that 3/4" imitation wood decking made from old poly soda bottles that served two purposes leveled out the base and spaced the Tigerwood floorboards off the steel to lessen water damage to both layers. We over thought this one and made a pan to drain water from under the floorboards. It was some European brand, don't recall the name but there are several on the market. It had heavy stiff for undecoating and lighter penetrating stuff for inside places like the rocker panels. We bought one of the commercial type undercoating systems and sprayed it in every nook and cranny we could find. scrape off all lose corrosion you can and soak it in converter, then coat it with undercoating. We rebuilt the floor of the smuggler's compartment, welded in a steel roof and opened it to the interior of the cab for more storage room. We sold the beat up bed panel from our '59 on ebaY and installed a Tigerwood bed. Easily removed with drilling out the spots and/or hammer and chiseling some of them. ![]()
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