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The next thing I did was coaxe Rondel into the garage under false pretenses, then I clubbed him into unconciousness and TORE OUT HIS GUTS. I couldnt bring myself to take pictures of this process, it was just too gruesome. Kidding, I have them somewhere but this was before I got a digital camera, and I dont think I got the pics developed and have no idea where they are. Could be one of 5 or 6 disposable cameras that I'll prolly never get around to developing. If I find them though, you'll be the second to know. But picture an airplane hangar..a big one....thats what Rondel looked like with all the interior stuff out of him.

Before...

After..!(shazaam)

Here's the interior all put together. I two-toned everything grey/gray and black, and remade the rotted door panels from a sheet of very thin wood. <pics to come> I dyed the carpets with some black RIT fabrik dye, as the carpets were in impeccable condition. I bought a set of Bluish-Grey/Gray seats from a friend for about $30, out of an '88 El Dorado, I think. I dusted some Smoke Grey/Gray fabrik dye over them to kill the Bluish tone they had and fit them in there. I gained about 6 inches of interior space in the process too, by doing away with the coil-spring mini sofa seats. The mold-injected foam seats are a LOT thinner.

Here's the front bench. SPLIT-bench actually...and since Rondel is so wide, there's about a 6-inch gap between the two seats,in which I plan to build a little CD cubby or something to that effect. The driver's seat is powered with 6 way tilt. I wired a new switch for the door to control it.

I took the whole dash apart too, painted every little piece, reassembled it, then painted the dash pad with a
black flex-coat paint.

This is an extreme angle shot of the rear "package tray" (that thing behind your head if you're sitting in the back seat). The old one was brown and ugly and warped beyond recognition. I traced it and made a new one out of the same wood as the door panels. the orbs in the pic are two new speakers. I had to cut a hole for the left one...there was no stereo sound when this car was made i guess, only mono. The lump way in the back is the mount for the seatbelts I installed. Tore them out of a late-80's Caddy at the scrapyard on the hottest day of last July, and welded reinforced mounts.

It's all about the details.......
Yeah shut up, I see the dirt and rust on them....detailing of the details comes later.


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