New Ashtray!

I got my new ashtray in the mail today, so I installed it. Took about a minute and a half to finish, and I love it! It will look especially awesome once I have the black interior installed!



The original ashtray.







Side-by-side comparison.




All done! I am going to keep the original just in case I later decide I don't like this as much as I thought, but I seriously doubt that will happen.

I mentioned earlier that my wheels looked terrible up close and needed refinished. Here is what I was talking about:





Since they will need to be refinished anyway, I have decided that I want to change them to the dark gray. I posted on the DMCTalk forums that I needed a dark gray center cap if anyone had one so I could color match it. I got a reply from James at DMCH that he thought he could find one if I needed it. He wrote me back this morning that he had found a brand new one still in the bag, so I bought it from him. That should be here in the next few days, and I can get started on this project! I will share the paint codes once I know them.

I apparently didn't check the glove box very well when I bought the car, because I found a surprise in there tonight.







Darn, not really Huey Lewis! Oh well, the 80's CD has some good songs on it! I wonder if the previous owner realized that he left it in the car when he sold it.

I did also re-brush the hood, but it was getting dark, so I'll have to see it in the sun to see if I got all the scratches out. It looked really bad, but I didn't get a good before shot. This is the best shot I have that shows how it looked:




Like I said, I'll see tomorrow if I actually made much of a difference. Tomorrow I will also be painting the back trim and HOPEFULLY installing my 3rd brake light. But at the very least painting! I would love to get my side stripe put on too, but I may not have time for that. We'll see.





So not a really productive day today, but at least I got a few things done. Tomorrow should have some more visible improvements. Oh, and of course I have to post a pic of the car itself from today!

It looks a little bit better every day! :)


~Lyndsey