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Black and Blue
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Austin, TX USA - Ya'll
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Under the painted leather...a pleasant surprise
One of the previous owners of my recently aquired SC decided at some point to paint the interior black. I knew I was in for a project but I had no idea how bad it was. The car will end up track only, but I still would like to have the interior as good as it can be without spending too much.
The car came without an ash tray and I recently picked one up on the cheap. After taking he ash tray apart to clean and paint the metal, I noticed that the pad was actually covered in leather that was cracking. Deep down I was thinking I might have the skills to recover the pad. After peeling off the leather I found pristine black vinyl which matched perfectly to some black knee pads I had from some other place. Since the PO used what looks to be Krylon HIGH gloss black enamel all over the car, I peeled the leather off the arm rails and the knee pads. In both cases the underlying vinyl pad was in EXCELLENT shape. So now I have an almost perfect set of arm rails and ashtray...with 2 knee pads left over in some reddish brown color (these will probably go up for sale). There was a slight dimple in the brown pads but I bet with some quality vinyl paint, these would look pretty good. So if you think your interior is shot, you might find something interesting if you have any leather to peel back. Below are the pictures       
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Kemo 1978 911 SC Non-Sunroof Coupe, two tone Primer Black and SWEPCO Blue, Currently serving as a Track Whore 1981 911 SC Sunroof Coupe, Pacific Blue Project, Future Daily Driver |
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06-02-2008, 08:02 PM
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Black and Blue
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Austin, TX USA - Ya'll
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oh...and the glue came off real easy with WD40
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Kemo 1978 911 SC Non-Sunroof Coupe, two tone Primer Black and SWEPCO Blue, Currently serving as a Track Whore 1981 911 SC Sunroof Coupe, Pacific Blue Project, Future Daily Driver |
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06-02-2008, 08:03 PM
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Designer King
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Toronto, ON Canada
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Every once in a while you get lucky!
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Paul Yellow 77 Sunroof Coupe/cork interior; 3.2L SS '80 engine/10.3:1/No O2; Carrera Tensioners; 11 Blade Fan; Turbo tie rods; Bilstein B6; 28 tube Cooler; SSI, Dansk; MSD/Blaster; 16x7" Fuchs/205/50 Firestone Firehawk Indy 500s; PCA/UCR, MID9 Never leave well enough alone |
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06-03-2008, 05:20 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Northern Chicago suburbs
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I know this feeling precisely. I looked at a very nice '86 Carrera years back that was GP white with navy interior. The car was quite pristine, but had horrible white leather accent trim throughout the interior! I decided to purchase the car anyway, with the thought that re-doing the white to navy wouldn't be that big of a deal. After fooling with some leather dye, I accidentally pulled the leather away from one of the sunvisors and couldn't believe my eyes. Under the white leather, was pristine navy factory vinyl. The white leather peeled away from all the other trim pieces and I was left only with cleanup using some 3M adhesive remover.
Lesson learned!
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