Interior Redo

The stock interior was a combination of light blue and medium blue and had been restored to some degree probably 15 years ago. It was showing its age, so I decided to redo it next.





I pulled everything out of the interior leaving just some spaghetti wires hanging out of the dash. (And the steering shaft which would scrape up my bald head twice. Gotta remember to put a tennis ball on the end of that thing next time.) I refinished the dash in Medium Blue Metallic and used all new switches, bezels, original tooling dash pad (66 Blue), instrument surround, LeCarra steering wheel, carpet (Ford Blue), and much more. The original glovebox door cleaned up fine. I redid the steering column with a new turn signal switch (buy the original Ford one for $75 -- not the repro!) and painted it blue too. I also refinished the gauges with fresh orange pointers. I drove it around the block to make sure it worked when I put it all back together. No problems at all.

I later stripped down the nice metal quarter panels and refinished them in Medium Blue Metallic, showing the cool grain pattern. (There was 40 years of paint on them previously, and they were smooth.)





Here's the (semi-) finished product. I'd take most of this apart when I sent the car out to be painted...