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Budget interior restoration pics
Just a couple details left but time to show the results.
This was a budget restore starting with a cab that had been butchered and beaten. It's a 72 a/c cab, original color scheme according to SPID was blue/ white/ blue. Nothing electrical was working on the truck when I got it in January. So biggest expense on the restore was a complete wiring harness from American Auto Wire. Most everything else came used from EBay (restored by me), parts board here (restored by me), and vendors here, with a few pieces from LMC, and Classic Parts. I don't have enough before pictures because I didn't think I was going to do very much, but after stripping the dash for the rewire I figured I might as well. First 2 pics are the only before pics, then 1 in process pics, and finally 2 from today. Still need to put in carpet and decide what to do with kick panels. If you want to know, the color is rattle can rustoleum "sail blue" Let me know what you think. Last edited by dcasalena; 09-03-2011 at 09:18 PM. |
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
I'm not aiming for a show truck here obviously, but my wife says she'll ride in it now.
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
I think it looks great. Just goes to show what you can do with a little elbow grease.
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
That looks great! Did you have the seat done or is that a seatcover? If the latter, where did you get it and how hard was it to install?
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
seatcover came from pickupman on the vendors marketplace. He ran a sale a few months ago.
Wasn't difficult at all to install, I just punched some holes with a small phillips head and pulled it tight with zipties (about as many as there were clips on the original cover). I wish I had pics of the old seat cover, looked like he put out his cigarettes on the seat when he couldn't throw them out the window during fire season. Last edited by dcasalena; 09-03-2011 at 10:02 PM. |
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
A job well done looks great
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
Nice job looks real good.You can be proud of that no matter what kind of can that paint came from
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
Looks great! I hope to be posting some befoe and after interior pics pretty soon too.
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That is a cool, nice job man!
You can't beat that feeling of knowing you did it yourself! ![]() I found these last week for small paint jobs these things work great. They will paint up to about 7 oz. of paint. That's a lot of paint to! They are more expensive than paint cans but you get custom colors also if you know what you want. ![]() I'm not no painter by no means but I thought the cooler turned out great! ![]() ![]()
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
What an improvement! Great job!
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
nice! what did u use for paint
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
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First post says .... Rustoliem rattle can Sail Blue LOL, Im too slow ... but Im blaming my computer tonight grrr
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
Very nice improvement.
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
Looks great! did you just spray it or what? that looks great/glossy!
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
hand sanded with 3 different grit sandpapers then a course steel wool then a fine steel wool. Then wiped everything down with denatured alcohol several times till the rag came away clean.
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
I think it came out great. Nice job! I did the same project awhile back, painting the dash. It was a lot of work but it is so nice to look at fresh paint while sitting/ driving the truck. I am still working on painting the rest of the interior of my truck. How is the rest of your cab interior? Any pictures you would care to show?
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
By the way, I believe your instrument dash cluster is from a 67/68. I like the seat cover as well. That came out very nice as well.
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
Ok I see that you have installed the correct one after painting. The old one is from a 1967-1968 instrument dash gauge cluster.
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
Love the rustoleum spray job! Looks great.
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
The best comment I can give you is that it does NOT look budget!!
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Re: Budget interior restoration pics
that's a nice looking blue and a job well done
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