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I dont know, anything is possible as it seems someone reupholstered my car sometime in the past.

I guess no two Avantis are exactly the same. I wouldnt get to hung up on how it was done and do it how it makes sense to you, if that means drilling a hole or two for clips, why not.

Yes it is plywood, the clip was to right of light an inch or so, in the discolored area, there are the four screws holes holding top of rear window that penetrated the wood in the bottom edge of padded light piece. Do you have the glass out of the car? Much of the interior trim is glued to window frames before glass goes in. I am working on this part of the restoration of my 63 presently

63 stick, the backer is not screwed on first, The vinyl is glued on leaving the bottom edge free to be glued to the body wrapping around window frame and glued flat rearward of rear window. The 4 clips are for the piece over door, only one on piece over rear window. You can use 1/8" plywood to make new backerboards, I had to make new panels for entire car. Take note of slotted holes holding clips. I had the same problem with the heater box wellnut, a threaded insert in a rubber bushing, once I had it out I took a 1"×2" piece of sheet metal drilled a hole in it and welded a 1/4-20 nut to it, stuck the nut through existing hole from backside and pop rivited the plate in place.

The padded trim above quarter window, mine had a single spring clip midfield, in addition to that the upper screws holding the quarter window in place went into the lower part of padded piece pulling it in tight. The padded piece above doors is held on with 4 or 5 spring clips, if your car is like mine and sat for years with water trapped inside the clips may have completely rusted away

Id like to know specifically what are the weak points in the clutch pedal linkage?

What if the insturment overlay were made thicker, strong enough to support the gauge cluster on its own, then you could remove the whole unit gauges still attached, no need to lay on your back or remove dash. This would neccesitate cutting the fiberglass dash buck out behind gauge overlay to provide clearance for the brackets holding the gauges to the overlay. Any thoughts or input on this idea welcome.

Having tried to adjust door and not being able to move it, I wondered why there wasnt slotted holes for adjustment. I will take off my hinges and put them in the mill and make slots out of holes. It would seem to me slots on the door side of hinge would make adjustment easier, that way the door could remain closed during sdjustment, loosen bolts shim or pry untill it looks good and tighten. The slots on the frame side would allow for left/right adjustment realitive to the longitudinal axis not for and aft,by slotting the door side you would have fore/aft adjustment as well!

SBC with T5 trans, would like to see how others hooked up clutch pedal to throw out lever

I might have got it wrong, Prius/leaf not sure, but it was pink like pepto

I met Dave Heacock and saw his conversion, as I was contemplating an EV conversion. He got most of the parts from Thunderstruck Motors in Sata Rosa ca. Brian Hall is the owner and put me in touch with Dave. I've seen one other EV converted avanti dropped onto a Prius chasis it was peptobismal pink. I have a fair amount of knowledge on the subject if anyone is interested

Mfg states that R4892 is the first square light produced but I have R4334 it is a square light and it says 1963 on the title

Here are some photos of a turn signal bucket I made yesterday for my 63, cardstock mold coated in candle wax hand lay up fiberglass

Thanks for the input from all of you,I didn't know about that oil either. Good info

Wanting suggestions on the installation of sbc into 63, motor mount placement and whatever considerations about hood clearance would be appreciated.