Cheap but bad-ass interior...
I'm redoing my interior, I got a lot done today thanks to my damn manager sending me home early from work.. :P Anyway, I had the trim chromed for a while and today I went around and got all the painting/upholstering stuff I needed. I got a little crowbar-looking thing called a tap puller and some vinyl repair shit from the hardware store. Then I went to an auto paint shop and got vinyl cleaning chemical spray and Pacific Blue vinyl paint. After that, I went to an upholsterer and got two big rolls of silver vinyl and some valuable professional advice :)
Once I had gotten all of that stuff, I ripped the front right door panel out and started disassembling it from the back. I painted the moldings at the top and bottom, as well as the side pouch thing and the door handle, bright blue. Then I ripped the grayish carpeting stuff off the middle section and traced it onto the back of one roll of sheet vinyl. I cut the pattern out with an exactoknife and stapled it to the backboard I had torn the cloth from. Then I screwed the pieces back together and now I have my new door.
I also used some leftover vinyl paint to do the back of the gauge housing, the front trim of which had already been chromed as part of last weekend's interior mini-project. I'll hopefully have the rest of the painting/upholstering done by the end of this week and be ready to put the indiglo gauges and pedals in next week sometime. I'm going ghetto blue seat covers for now but eventually will have some Corbeau Forza black/blue-striped racing seats.
I'll post pics when I get this whole spiel finished. I was fucking amazed at how cheaply and easily you can make your interior look REALLY sharp, especially for older cars like ours. I think I spent about $45 for all the bits and pieces, and the majority of that was the rolls of vinyl for the upholstery ($10 each, 2 of them to cover all 4 doors).
Until next time,
