Day 3

Day three was almost as productive as day two was (so far, not done yet!). So far I have gotten the lower door panels and door handles dyed, door pillar trim dyed, door headliners out, driver side quarter panel and seats out, and am getting ready to start recovering the seats as soon as I am done writing this post. All I have left is to get the passenger side quarter panel out, and get the rear panel out and dye it and the quarter panels. Should be about an hour or less, then I will be ready to start putting things back in. I will probably do the carpet first, then the seats, then quarter panels, then door panels & trim, then dash/console/knee pads, then headliner. I'm hoping that it will only take a few hours tomorrow before I'm done. That may be a bit optimistic, but I am fully planning to be done before the day ends tomorrow! That is of course assuming that I can get the seats both recovered tonight. I guess time will tell. I should at the very least be MOSTLY done tomorrow.


My re-dyed door panel with the reproduction DMCH door pulls. The color is PERFECT!


Wow, it's no wonder these speakers sounded like SHIT! You can see the ground through them, and chunks fell off when I took it out!!!


It came complete with a dead spider!


I'm guessing these will sound just a little bit better, LOL!


Seat is out. Much easier to take out than I thought it would be.


No seat or quarter panel.


Just to give you an idea of the scope of this project. Everything you see is part of this project.


My parents are gone this week, so I kind of took over their living room!! I wouldn't have had enough space at my place for everything, so it worked out perfectly! :) I have even added more stuff since this picture!

Day 2

I finally got my knee pads, center console and upper door panels dyed black today, and they turned out even better than I was hoping for! They look awesome, and they match perfectly with the factory black parts!


How the interior looks at the moment!


The factory Craig speakers from the dash. They still work, too!


The first pieces waiting to be dyed.


Before and after on the knee pads.


Another before and after example.


My re-dyed center console with factory black arm rest. They match perfectly in person!


My VIN plate painted and installed on my new DMCH dash!


The steadily growing pile of parts to be installed. Without knowing, could you tell which ones are original factory parts, reproductions or re-dyed? I can't!


My new shifter ball. It's brushed stainless and looks AWESOME!

Tomorrow I am going to dye the few remaining parts, and get everything installed! I also have a new mini-project I'm starting. Since I am installing seat warmers, I am trying to figure out how to modify some factory window switches to act as the hi/lo temp on/off switches for them. It shouldn't be too hard. Unfortunately I can't just use the dummy switches, since then it would just be on/off and you couldn't choose the temp setting. I just got my used switches in the mail yesterday, so I will start looking into that tomorrow.

I have more pictures, but somehow I forgot my camera AGAIN, so I'll post some more pictures tonight.