I started cleaning out the interior today. Floor pans are a little worse than they look from the bottom. (Some holes just aren’t visible when they’re covered by that tar board.) I was first thinking that a half-pan replacement near the battery would be all that was needed, but it’s obvious that both full pans will need to be replaced. Not that big a set-back. Other areas, happily, are rust-free. Like the luggage compartment, for example. The interior is not too bad, overall. Front seats need to be cleaned, back seat needs some filling replaced, and a little bit of sewing, but it should be ok. Replacement of the upholstery may be an option down the road but for now I can get by with what’s there. Rubber mats may clean up ok; the front mat is torn in half, but it may not even been noticeable when put back clean. The carpet is going to be replaced. There was never a floor-carpet, only some trim pieces around the upper edges of the interior and the luggage compartment behind the back seat. Mats and carpet will not be too expensive.
Work time: One hour. Photos following:
Glovebox is dirty, and the paper/fibre box has been weakend from age and moisture.
Speedo. 87252. Wonder if it’s 187k or 287k or 387k. Not even sure if it works.
Here is some interesting pencil graffiti on the dash. Mileage and Year, perhaps?
Saw a tutorial on the ‘net about repairing those little cracks in a steering wheel. May be a future project.
View from the luggage compartment.
Passenger-side rear quarter panel. Dirty, but looks solid.
The pop-out window mechanism on the passenger side is installed too far back. Indicates that the pop-outs were not factory-installed?
Driver-side rear quarter panel. Impact damage is going to be hard to get to.
Luggage compartment/rear seat area. Looks fine.
Rusty floor pans. Gotta go.
Good condition here.
Tarboard removed. Some holes.
Luggage compartment
Luggage Compartment
Under the rear seat.
Floor pan rust. Gotta go…
Instide the passenger-side A-pillar. near the door jamb.
Outside the passenger-side A-pillar. Problem for me.
Scary rust-area. Passenger-side heater vent along the floor. This is the bottom of the A-post. The rest of the heater channel looks ok.
Ammo. Pulled from glovebox and put, of course, into an ‘evidence bag’.
I’m trying to bag-up all the small stuff as I dis-assemble the car. I think of these as “evidence bags”
Rubber floor mat parts numbers. Helpful when re-ordering.
Passenger footrest has a rusty bottom.
Original (I assume) carpet color.
Original (I assume) rubber floor mats.
Impact damage behind driver door.
Found the missing engine-compartment hose under all the crud and rust.
