Had the chance this weekend to tackle some refurb in the interior. Original color is tobacco brown and pretty much everything needed to be replaced or at least refurbed quite a bit. Removed the dry-rotted rear seat, rear side panels, and nasty rear shelf then scrubbed and cleaned the area up. Original florida paint was still nice and glossy back there!
The side panels and ashtrays where in good shape after a major cleanup of what had accumulated in the pockets and ashtrays over the past 40 years. Since im changing the color scheme over to the black interior, i scuffed the vinyl with a burgundy Scotchbrite pad and chased that with some 400 grit. Cleaned with solvent cleaner and sprayed black vinyl dye on them. Turned out pretty nice! Applied some new mylar tape to the chrome strips and it almost looked brand new!
Used the old rear shelf as a template and cut out a new one from some nice fiberboard and stretched new vinyl over it.
Got a black rear seat in really great shape at a good price off the 2002Faq site, and cleaned it up. Installed some new seat belts and the one piece of Salt & Pepper carpet that folds under the rear seat. Looking much better than it did before!