Its coming together

Derrick has been cranking on the interior. Its looking really good. However, as he was taking apart the rear seat we noticed that the wood was broken and he will have to rebuild the rear seat backing. He's made a lot of custom pieces- emergency brake and shifter boots, the sun visors, cont. boot, carpet, and carpet trunk liner. Derrick also recovered the kick pad on the bottom of the dash in black vinyl. I couldn't find anyone who said they had a good reproduction. The stereo does crank now, not a powerful system but better than the AM JAM that was in there.

He's fitting the boot for the top. We had to figure out how to fasten it at the back by the rear seats. There are clips to hold the rear seat in place and on the back it has hooks to fasten the boot down. He'll place some grommets to hold the boot in place.

I went with 2-point retractable seat belts for the front. They aren't as safe as 3-point but the originals weren't retractable. I bought them at JBugs. They told me and I had read that the retractable 3-points were too long and would bounce around because they were made to mount higher in the coupes. We also had 2 seat seat belts placed in the back for the kids. However, I don't think there will be much room back there.
SIDE NOTE- I hope you don't have to return anything to JBugs, it takes foreverrrrr.

The seats, door panels, armrests were a kit from Scat-Procar seats. Derrick did a good job matching the rest of the vinyl to these. The kit comes with adapters to place on the original rails, so it could be changed back to the original. The kit was supposed to have a rear seat cover, but it was back ordered several months. I worked with Ron at Scat and he sent me the matching vinyl rather than wait any longer. Ron was great, he had similar set of Procar seats in a Karmann Ghia.

This window cranks look great. They are from Airkewld. They were the only nice alternative I found to replace the cheesy black plastic cranks. There were some modifications with the screws and adjusting to be done to get them right. They weren't cheap, but well worth it to put finishing touches on the interior. The picture shown doesn't have the cap on it yet.


Derrick made custom E-brake and shifter boots. I think they look great. He said the E-brake was a little tricky to make because of the heat controls.