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. |
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| This is a semi-recent pic of 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. | ||||||||
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| 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. | ||||||||
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I
took the whole dash apart too, painted every little piece, and
reassembled it. I painted the dash pad with a black flex-coat. |
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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 to the FRAME. |
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all about the details....... yeah shut up i see the dirt and rust on em....detailing of the details comes later. |
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