The "Daily Driver" Interior Thread
10-08-12, 08:08 PM
#1
Smells like 2 stroke.
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The "Daily Driver" Interior Thread
Hey everybody.
For the past six years, I have been piecing my interior together slowly as I daily drive my FC. It started out pretty ugly; no radio surround, no radio (Horrors!), stock shifter & shifter **** (bleh!), torn driver's seat, ...I could go on.
I have decided to make this thread for everybody/anybody who wants to show off their interiors. Yeah, I'm sure this has been done before. But let's face it; any interior threads floating around in this forum probably have outdated pictures.
So to continue my story for those who are still reading:
Today I pulled in the driveway after getting home from work, and looked around; I realized my interior is almost done. After thinking it over, I decided to start taking pictures. Here are a few of the better ones.
Home away from home:
Shifter, parking brake (I machined the handle & button from billet Aluminum), center console...
Passenger side view... Bet you can't guess what kind of car the drivers seat is from; it has a story behind it like everything else in/on this car.
And finally, a gauge cluster that is finally surrounded by an intact bezel. (Small victory)
So that's what I have so far. Post 'em if you have 'em.
For the past six years, I have been piecing my interior together slowly as I daily drive my FC. It started out pretty ugly; no radio surround, no radio (Horrors!), stock shifter & shifter **** (bleh!), torn driver's seat, ...I could go on.
I have decided to make this thread for everybody/anybody who wants to show off their interiors. Yeah, I'm sure this has been done before. But let's face it; any interior threads floating around in this forum probably have outdated pictures.
So to continue my story for those who are still reading:
Today I pulled in the driveway after getting home from work, and looked around; I realized my interior is almost done. After thinking it over, I decided to start taking pictures. Here are a few of the better ones.
Home away from home:
Shifter, parking brake (I machined the handle & button from billet Aluminum), center console...
Passenger side view... Bet you can't guess what kind of car the drivers seat is from; it has a story behind it like everything else in/on this car.
And finally, a gauge cluster that is finally surrounded by an intact bezel. (Small victory)
So that's what I have so far. Post 'em if you have 'em.
10-09-12, 04:30 PM
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70s style??? Wut? How could something so terminally 80s have a 70s style?
Besides, there were lots of things in auto-coolness that have their roots in the 70s.
Nice job! Now get some replacement peddle pads
-RR
Besides, there were lots of things in auto-coolness that have their roots in the 70s.
Nice job! Now get some replacement peddle pads
-RR
10-09-12, 10:13 PM
#6
Smells like 2 stroke.
Thread Starter
Whoa... You know at first I didn't see it. But if you take away the Stereo, late 80's style curves and plastic, and left behind red **** and an oddly patterned seat, I get where you're coming from. Thanks... I guess.
So fresh! Personally I despise cup holders. On long trips I just wedge a 20oz between the door and the seat! Bam, instant beverage holder.
Yeah it came out of a friend's old GSL-SE. The leather it was wrapped in was horrible so it had to be removed.
But the vinyl is almost perfect. I painted the horn button black and found a black Mazda logo on a B2200 pickup steering wheel, which just happens to be the same type wheel.
So fresh! Personally I despise cup holders. On long trips I just wedge a 20oz between the door and the seat! Bam, instant beverage holder.
Yeah it came out of a friend's old GSL-SE. The leather it was wrapped in was horrible so it had to be removed.
But the vinyl is almost perfect. I painted the horn button black and found a black Mazda logo on a B2200 pickup steering wheel, which just happens to be the same type wheel.
10-09-12, 10:15 PM
#7
Smells like 2 stroke.
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I feel pedal pads are for the more "Luxury oriented." (Like jaguars, factory GXL's that haven't seen the light of day, etc...) It's going to be plain 'ol grip tape for my ride.
Oh, and finding pedal pads that fit or aren't Ricetastic pink anodized aluminum with thirty 1/4-20 screws to bolt them on with is impossible in this place.
(Sorry for double post)
Last edited by DaBrkddy; 10-09-12 at 10:15 PM. Reason: Sorry
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10-09-12, 11:39 PM
#9
Smells like 2 stroke.
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10-10-12, 11:34 AM
#15
Yeah it came out of a friend's old GSL-SE. The leather it was wrapped in was horrible so it had to be removed.
But the vinyl is almost perfect. I painted the horn button black and found a black Mazda logo on a B2200 pickup steering wheel, which just happens to be the same type wheel./off to the junkyard!
anyways:
Before:
Factory 2+2 with cheap ebay seats, grey interior with just ****
after I painted it:
when I put an interior in it!
AFTER AFTER (what it is now)
*note* the battery is meerly resting there, it is actually behind the passenger seat.
10-10-12, 11:46 AM
#16
acdelco d1906 Nkg 49034
>>>So fresh! Personally I despise cup holders. On long trips I just wedge a 20oz between the door and the seat! Bam, instant beverage holder.<<<
too funny! but so real!!
too funny! but so real!!
10-10-12, 08:16 PM
#18
Smells like 2 stroke.
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Great interiors! This is sweet. I wanted to do this because I didn't have any inspiration to go off of with mine when I first started, so I had to develop everything on my own from scratch. It's refreshing to see other peoples ideas when trying to develop a plan of action.
I hope people can gather something from this thread.
Keep them coming! Even works in progress, clean factory interiors, etc. It's all good.
I hope people can gather something from this thread.
Keep them coming! Even works in progress, clean factory interiors, etc. It's all good.
10-10-12, 10:56 PM
#20
^Clean blue interiors rock.
I don't know how you guys convince yourselves into keeping the red/brown interior.
I'm in the process of redoing my interior. I hate the layout of the interior. No room to cleanly put anything aftermarket except for cluttering it on top of the dash. I wish the layout was more like the mkiii supra's...
I don't know how you guys convince yourselves into keeping the red/brown interior.
I'm in the process of redoing my interior. I hate the layout of the interior. No room to cleanly put anything aftermarket except for cluttering it on top of the dash. I wish the layout was more like the mkiii supra's...
10-10-12, 11:58 PM
#21
^Clean blue interiors rock.
I don't know how you guys convince yourselves into keeping the red/brown interior.
I'm in the process of redoing my interior. I hate the layout of the interior. No room to cleanly put anything aftermarket except for cluttering it on top of the dash. I wish the layout was more like the mkiii supra's...
I don't know how you guys convince yourselves into keeping the red/brown interior.
I'm in the process of redoing my interior. I hate the layout of the interior. No room to cleanly put anything aftermarket except for cluttering it on top of the dash. I wish the layout was more like the mkiii supra's...
