#TAILGATE TRIM REMOVAL 1968 EL CAMINO DRIVERS#

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. Progress on the 'trunk' for the el Camino. I'll put a rubber trim piece around the rectangle, again to make it look sort of factory finish. So, I'm cutting out a rectangle for the 'trunk' lid and will spot weld down the perimeter and seam seal it like the rest of the bed edges. Grinding them back for clearance would result in a bigger, crappy looking gap. And the edges around the inner fenders scrape. I didn't want to use the whole section as there is a gap around the perimeter that was filled with seam sealer and not filling it would look bad. I'm going to cut the brand new sheet metal to create a 'trunk' lid. and make it look like it would if the factory had done this (which they should have!) I'm going to modify the front bed panel to hinge up, with hydraulic lifters, electronic trunk latch etc. I'm going to put the battery in there (better weight over the rear, clean up up the engine compartment) and be able to store tools etc.

#TAILGATE TRIM REMOVAL 1968 EL CAMINO DRIVERS#

That is a lot of space! The factory put in a 'smugglers box' behind the drivers seat, a little bit bigger than the glove box.īut I want ALL of this space for storage. I was hoping someone made a custom part for this, but could not find one, so I decided to make my own, using the factory dash insert as a starting point. I’ve seen lots of guys who put 2 din stereo heads in a custom console, but I just didn’t like that look. I mostly got my inspiration from the guys doing door panels and speaker enclosures.įor the dash on this project, I wanted to put in Dakota Digital VHX gauges and a 2 DIN stereo/video head. It’s been in the back of my mind for awhile and I spent way too many hours on YouTube watching various approaches. After the Suburban re-paint, I was a little tired of painting, blocking, sanding etc.… so decided to work on this custom dash for the el Camino. I took a break from the el Camino to do a practice paint job on my Suburban and that came out pretty good. Lots to do and I’m looking forward to it all! I’ve posted various times about this ’68 el Camino project but thought I would start a thread to post updates to.

Tailgate trim removal 1968 el camino