Interior makeover

I've finally become so annoyed with my old dirty, scratched interior so i've decided to repaint it all. It's currently tan, but it will be high gloss black when i'm finished. I started on it yesterday and got all but a couple of trim pieces out.
I got about 6 pieces sanded up to around 250 grit, and 4 of those I layed the first couple of coats of primer on. Today I got the seats up and got the front carpet repainted because it's faded alot since the last time I did it, you definitely need to run your hand across the carpet and rub it deep down, which I failed to do the previous time which lead to only the surface being painted. Here's some pics of todays progress.

Sweet..keep the pics COMING

Dont paint the top of the dash gloss back or you wont be able to see for the glare.

Bert

ibmoses wrote:

Dont paint the top of the dash gloss back or you wont be able to see for the glare.

Bert

Well I didn't even think of that but I wasn't going to paint it, my friends dad gave me the idea today of just getting some sort of mat for the top of it, if it looks good enough i'll probably do that, or just leave it tan.. some ghetto two tone haha but w.e my seats are gonna be tan, and my interior black, it doesn't sound ideal, but maybe I can find some grey seats eventually.

Hit the seats with SEM Black, they make a leather dye/paint in a rattle can.

Jack the R wrote:

Hit the seats with SEM Black, they make a leather dye/paint in a rattle can.

Damn thanks for the tip, I wish my seats were worth restoring my drivers side started ripping in the middle.. i'm definitely due for some new seats ;/ It's probably going to be tough finding a cheap replacement in good condition.

Make sure you check out what snowdog did to his dash top. Came out real nice:
https://rivperformance.editboard.com/welcome-f1/new-riv-owner-t4273-15.htm

Good luck!

deekster_caddy wrote:

Make sure you check out what snowdog did to his dash top. Came out real nice:
https://rivperformance.editboard.com/welcome-f1/new-riv-owner-t4273-15.htm

Good luck!

That did come out beautifully, i'll keep it in mind.

I've had alot of stuff going on so this kind of got pushed to the back of my priorities








I'll take some better ones after the dash trim is back on and I clean off all of the fingerprints o_O

Pretty nice , but why not just go with a wood dash kit? They're not too expensive and the sherwood kit looks great IMO.

i might be sellin my grey seats soon. im gonna ask for $ 350 for the 2.

TonySmooth89 wrote:

Pretty nice , but why not just go with a wood dash kit? They're not too expensive and the sherwood kit looks great IMO.

I would have but it wasn't just my dash that was unbearable, my center console and all of those pieces were scratched and ugly, maybe in the future I'll get the dash kit as I do love the look of them.

I just got the dash back on, I went to go pick up some body clips and macguire's and it started raining, so I'll finish cleaning it all up and get the running board trim pieces back in tomorrow.

robotennis61 wrote:

i might be sellin my grey seats soon. im gonna ask for $ 350 for the 2.

I just got a 9/10 condition grey seat in a junk yard for 30 bucks.. with a A pillar upholstery piece, and a Tranny mount

98riviera98 wrote:

robotennis61 wrote:

i might be sellin my grey seats soon. im gonna ask for $ 350 for the 2.

I just got a 9/10 condition grey seat in a junk yard for 30 bucks.. with a A pillar upholstery piece, and a Tranny mount

Good find! I'm probably going to try to sell my passenger tan seat and put that towards two grey ones, my drivers side is pretty ripped

that is a good find.

Polished it up a bit, looks alot better now. I still don't have the floor trim or the center console lid in as you can see. It still has a long way to go, but it's a step in the right direction.

Looks much better polished up! Nice!

very very nice!

what kind of paint did u use??

and

did u paint the carpet too??

brmcm15 wrote:

very very nice!

what kind of paint did u use??

and

did u paint the carpet too??

Duplicolor auto paint, and yeah haha I did. Autozone sells a rattle can made by Rust-Oleum for fabric and vinyl that replaced a similar "carpet paint" made by duplicolor. As far as I can tell, the new stuff is alot better and adheres much better, if you plan on doing it get some rubber gloves and rub the paint into the carpet between coats and it works pretty well.

still seling my seats. travis came up with a super deal. but those deals are rare.my seats are excelent. front left driver corner,is the begining of a small tear. the passenger is like new.. full functioning power.

robotennis61 wrote:

still seling my seats. travis came up with a super deal. but those deals are rare.my seats are excelent. front left driver corner,is the begining aof a small tear. the passenger is like new.. full functioning power.

If I had 300 to spend, I'd be all over them.

robotennis61 wrote:

still seling my seats. travis came up with a super deal. but those deals are rare.my seats are excelent. front left driver corner,is the begining aof a small tear. the passenger is like new.. full functioning power.

if its 300 shipped.. its a Helluva deal!

i wonder how much shipping would be? who ever owned this car before me did a fantastic job maintaining the appearance. but terrible job on the mechanicals...but yeah..i wonder how much shipping would be? anybody know how much they weigh?

98riviera98 wrote:

robotennis61 wrote:

still seling my seats. travis came up with a super deal. but those deals are rare.my seats are excelent. front left driver corner,is the begining aof a small tear. the passenger is like new.. full functioning power.

if its 300 shipped.. its a Helluva deal!

It would probably be close to that just to ship them..

lol now i can really tell that u painted the floor after i took a closer look at the 3rd picture....


are you planning on doing the same to the doors??