Interior Work

As I described before, the head­liner is up, all the trim pol­ished and installed and now the car­pet is in.  The car­pet set ordered from SMS Auto Fab­rics when we ordered the seat and trunk fab­rics was about the biggest piece of crap I’ve seen or expe­ri­enced since begin­ning this project.  The plush car­pet sup­plied is noth­ing close to what was orig­i­nally installed in the car and their ver­sion of a cus­tom cut and sewn car­pet is about as far from the truth as one could pos­si­bly get.  None of the sewn seams are any­where close to being where they belong and the back and front pieces do not even over­lap under the front seat.  there is at least a 10″ sec­tion under the seat un-covered.  Not only that, there is no mate­r­ial to cover the door posts like the orig­i­nal set.  A huge dis­ap­point­ment to say the least and surely not worth any­where close to the $250.00 charged.  I could have done the same job buy­ing $40.00 worth of roll goods from Home Depot.  I had to hack the whole set up to make it fit and it’s done for now but next Spring I’ll take the seats back out and send it to a shop and get it done with the proper carpet.

I made up new card­board kick pan­els for the front, installed all of the duct work and vents, uphol­stered the pan­els with new vinyl and put every­thing back in.  The back seat is back from the shop and now installed in the car, the pack­age shelf has been re-covered and the radio parts finally arrived.  The dash is now com­plete, glove box installed along with the 2 front ash­trays.  Soon I will install the front seat tracks and then we will be ready to put the front seat back in.  Once that is in, she will actu­ally be a dri­ve­able car, though there will be a lot of adjust­ment and fit issues to deal with.  The door pan­els will still need to be recov­ered too.

Till then.….….

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