I worked hard on Saturday and a little on Sunday and got the interior finished. There are still a few things to do, mainly gluing things down properly (I've just rested the carpet inside the car with no adhesive since I know I'll need to pull the carpet back to weld in my floor pan patch), but at least this gives a good idea of what it looks like.

After several hours of wiring (I fixed a crossed wire in the stereo installation that was preventing it form saving radio or CD pre-sets) and cleaning, I install the shift and e-brake gaitors.



The rear of the car, ready for carpet.



Rear carpet in.



Rear side panel cards and rear seats in.



Front carpeting laid in.



Found some rust under the seats on the brackets, so I hit them with a quick coat of high-temp black paint:



Seats re-installed.



Other side.



And the rears.



New door cards, brushed aluminum furniture and Rover door pockets.




Took her out, gassed her up and all is well!

 

Nice work!

 

Yeah, really looking good there.

 

Very nice indeed.

 

That looks good! What'd you do about the rust in the floor pan?

 

It's no longer visible Xb!

 

Looks great

 

Lookin' good. I'm jealous (again).

 

Nothing yet. I'm going to weld a patch over the area soon - until then I have the carpet not glued down, so I can syhift it aside for the welding job. Until then, it will be a "dry drive only" car - not that I ever really drove it much in the rain.

 

looking sharp.....

 

Wow! looks great!!

 

Nice!!

 

Nice work Matt! Now maybe you can come back and play with us. We miss you in the detailing forum.

 

lookin good!

 

don't glue the carpet.

 

Looks fantastic!

I didn't glue the carpets in my pickup and was glad I made that choice. If/when water came in, I was able to life up the carpets and dry the floorpans out appropriately. If glued down, you probably wouldn't even know it was wet underneath.

 

Yeah, I may only glue down a few trouble spots, mainly around the shift and e-brake boots - the carpet flaps have nothing to be tucked beneath and stick up. Unless there's a trick to securing them without glue that looks good?

 

I only need to glue the more vertical parts of mine.

 

Use Velcro. I have done that before

 

It stuck to the car AND the backside of the carpet? Really? Did you use some special kind for that? That's actually a fantastic idea, of I can get the Velcro to adhere properly.

 

That looks great ImagoX....nice and clean

 

Nice job!!

Donna

 

Thanks, guys... It'll only get better over time - when I get the door sill trim glued down and everything vacuumed, I think it will be quite sharp. A bit "modern", but not annoyingly so, I don't think.

 

Sorry for the later reply. If you go to Lowes there are all kinds of Velcro, there is one that is called heavy Duty, you will have to make sure the area is super super clean to be able to get it to stick but I have used it for floor mats, carpet, and the nickel kick panel on my front door so I didn't have to drill into my steel door. i love velcro

 

I'll go that route, then... I'll probably do a bit of trimming and see if I can attach the carpeting UNDER the metal bracket that holds the gaitor as well - I hear that's what others do. I'll need the Velcro to hold the ends of the cut I made in any event, however, so the feedback is very much appreciated.