posted on Thursday, March 2nd, 2006 at 11:11 pm and filed under General - comments feed | leave a comment | trackbacks are closed

Things are finally starting to move again on the 1800. I’ve removed the seats, carpets and interior trim and will begin repairing/rustproofing the floorpans as soon as my order of POR 15 (and just about everything else in the company’s catalog) arrives this week. Once all the body’s rustproofing and finishing is done, I’ll install sound/heat reduction pads throughout the floor and firewall, and replace the ratty original carpet with all new pieces (also already ordered, and hopefully well cut).

The wooden backing of the rear seats was pretty rotten when I got to it, so I’ll be cutting out a new section of plywood, too. Seat rails need a good cleaning, and I haven’t yet decided how to deal with the vinyl seats; I’m considering just replacing the vinyl altogether with leather upholstery from Don T., but I may wait on this. The passenger seat is still in good shape (albeit dirty and the wrong color for my model), so I may end up trying my luck with a can of upholstery “paint” to spruce it up. Anybody got any suggestions on how best to handle this? (The two front seats in my car are red vinyl, obviously not original to the car — the rest of which features black upholstery).