Palmetto_TSi
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- May 6, 2011
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Anderson,
South Carolina
Since I am pretty much jonesin to drive the talon, and I will be building this car a part or two at a time, I have decided to do each phase of this build in stages. Each stage being divided into work that will require the car to be out of comission for no more than a week.
Stage one of the interior phase is to get everything cleaned and put back into place. When the car was purchased, the interior was in a disgusting state. Filth, as well as neglect and disrepair was everywhere. The plastic clips that were designed to hold the interior panels together where broken and missing. The previouse owner tried to replace them with velcro. There was one broken interior panel, the dash was cracked, and the foam cover above the glove box was rolling up.
With the fact that this car will be a daily driver, but will also be used to play in from time to time, the plan for the interior is somewhat a cross between comfort and race. Nice race seats (which haven't been chosen yet), with safety harnesses, removal of the back "seat"- if you can call it that- and replace with custom speaker box and amp rack, custom built console, new carpet, headliner, and dye/paint interior panels is the final plan when phase three is complete.
Phase one of all aspects of the build will be to get the car in DD trim. Phase one of the interior will include, steam cleaning of the upholstery, vacuum carpet, repair the dash crack, and replace the broken interior panel, and clips.
My previous entry detailed the dire state of the interior of this car. Not really torn up, but not at all taken care of. My first step was to get all the filth out of the car. AND I do mean filth...
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This coffee looking liquid is what the water looked like the first time I went over it with the shampooer. Not only that, but almost every tank afterward was this nasty. Finally, after about two hours of cleaning and rinsing the upholstry, the water was at least only somewhat dirty, and I could live with that. The finished result was this...
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... a much nicer looking seat. The light grey bolsters of the seat cleaned up to look like new, even got the texture back. The center tweed like sections of all the seats is highly faded from 18 years of sitting in the sun. There are a few small holes in the interior, as you can see from the above picture, but nothing that should require immediate attention. Now on to the dash.
Stage one of the interior phase is to get everything cleaned and put back into place. When the car was purchased, the interior was in a disgusting state. Filth, as well as neglect and disrepair was everywhere. The plastic clips that were designed to hold the interior panels together where broken and missing. The previouse owner tried to replace them with velcro. There was one broken interior panel, the dash was cracked, and the foam cover above the glove box was rolling up.
With the fact that this car will be a daily driver, but will also be used to play in from time to time, the plan for the interior is somewhat a cross between comfort and race. Nice race seats (which haven't been chosen yet), with safety harnesses, removal of the back "seat"- if you can call it that- and replace with custom speaker box and amp rack, custom built console, new carpet, headliner, and dye/paint interior panels is the final plan when phase three is complete.
Phase one of all aspects of the build will be to get the car in DD trim. Phase one of the interior will include, steam cleaning of the upholstery, vacuum carpet, repair the dash crack, and replace the broken interior panel, and clips.
My previous entry detailed the dire state of the interior of this car. Not really torn up, but not at all taken care of. My first step was to get all the filth out of the car. AND I do mean filth...
View attachment 3244
This coffee looking liquid is what the water looked like the first time I went over it with the shampooer. Not only that, but almost every tank afterward was this nasty. Finally, after about two hours of cleaning and rinsing the upholstry, the water was at least only somewhat dirty, and I could live with that. The finished result was this...
View attachment 3245
... a much nicer looking seat. The light grey bolsters of the seat cleaned up to look like new, even got the texture back. The center tweed like sections of all the seats is highly faded from 18 years of sitting in the sun. There are a few small holes in the interior, as you can see from the above picture, but nothing that should require immediate attention. Now on to the dash.
