New Upholstery--Before, After

One down, one to go

Repurposed Mat

I kept the disgusting, dog-pee soaked carpet pad that I pulled up when I moved into Rosser.  I washed and dried the pad a couple of times and decided to save money on sound deadener and instead used the old carpet pad in Sunshine Volkswagen.  I measured out and cut two pieces for the passenger side.

Passenger Floor

I sanded, treated, sanded some more, cleaned, and painted the passenger floor with POR-15.

My kid is cute

I love Oliver Loret.

What a nightmare

I have had a very hard time working on the seat frames.  I first stripped the seat bottom and sanded the frame down to metal.  Then I primered it.  So far so good.  Then we went off the rails.  I painted the primered frame with POR-15 and these strange little bubbles appeared.  It looked just awful.  Instead of stopping, I kept going.  It was a disaster.  Then I decided to try to spray primer over the POR-15.  Wow, that just made the problem worse.  I finally let the whole thing dry and bought paint remover at Lowes.  I had to buy intense gloves to protect my skin.  I used the paint remover to take off the layers of paint I put on.

Spring is here! 2016

Since it's feeling like Spring, I've been struck by CARFEVER!

I've started a few projects.  I removed one seat, disassembled it, and started gathering the parts to recover the front seats.

I purchased TMI slip-on covers in Richmond.  They have velcro.  I don't know what I think of these covers, but we'll see.

I've also sanded down one seat frame so far and purchased and mounted antique 1972 plates.

Yesterday I started working on the floor which has developed some significant rust.