Nice job thus far, fraido! Looks like light at the end of the tunnel. Some really good insights on what appears to be a build done right. The attention to detail is amazing. A couple of things that I found pretty interesting: color choice is spot on, the steering wheel is fantastic (was considering one of these for mine), and the bedliner on the underside and floors is something I probably would have never thought of, but just makes too much sense to do.
It's really detailed builds like this one that really bring out the potential of the car. It is also builds like this one that make me wish I actually had a garage to work out of when I actually start my build. Right now, I'm just tackling little things until I can handle some logistics. My only option right now is to use the parking lot at work, which is fine until the weather turns sour in a couple of months.
One question. Are you re-doing your dash bezels in black as well? I'm considering re-doing mine when I overhaul the interior (probably not going to keep the wood grain). I'd like to redo them, but am curious about how to repaint the bordering and the lettering that is on the bezels (the radio bezel for instance has the white border around the heater/AC controls, as well as lettering right about where the lighter plugs in). Any thoughts? Worst case, I could just leave it off, but I thought it would be a nice touch to maintain it. The radio bezel is probably the only one of any importance to me in this area, especially since I have a radio bezel out of an older model Cutlass that I want to maintain, which has the shaft style radio cutouts with lettering above the cutouts for the shaft radio knobs).
Again, nice work. I look forward to seeing the finished product. Thanks for the insights!
I won't ever be able to cruise around you as my car will look like crap next to yours!
