So before i hustled off to work today i spent about 15mins ripping out the interior of the car. Not particularly hard when its all unbolted and just sitting there.
The pile of bits which came out looks like this:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/27898-1/IMG_2733.JPG[/IMG]
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/27916-1/IMG_2739.JPG[/IMG]
Stripped out car like so:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/27901-1/IMG_2734.JPG[/IMG]
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/27904-1/IMG_2735.JPG[/IMG]
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/27907-1/IMG_2736.JPG[/IMG]
All in all very damn good, really not overly concerned about it being a complete headache anymore. Only a mild one 🙂
Pretty much everything was all neatly boxed up and sitting in chinese food containers or icecream boxes, neatly labeled so that i know where they go. So now i have eleventy billion little containers with “Glovebox screws” and the like on them, all of which contain the same screws 😆
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/27925-1/IMG_2742.JPG[/IMG]
Only things which i really found were something, probably oil, spilled in the passenger side:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/27910-1/IMG_2737.JPG[/IMG]
A bit of surface rust in the spare tyre well, which is pretty normal.
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/27928-1/IMG_2743.JPG[/IMG]
And a cat or something has had its way with the roof lining:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/27934-1/IMG_2745.JPG[/IMG]
Other than those things most of the interior can go back together relatively easily. Ill give the carpets a good wash, and maybe try to dye them black before they go back in, and everything else should just go back in easily. Im considering getting some dry ice to take out all the sound deadening, especially that nasty tar stuff, but im not sure if i can be bothered at this point.
Other things in the car apart from the interior are a little worse:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/27919-1/IMG_2740.JPG[/IMG]
Engine is completely seized, even the breaker bar with a 3m exhaust tube extension couldnt budge it. Ohwell, time to find a new one for a case or something.
Its also missing a tailshaft, which i should be able to get at a wrecker or something, and i couldnt find the locknut key in any of the little boxes, which was a big bummer. Not sure if i can get one from a tyre shop or if i am going to have to weld a normal nut to each of the locknuts and go from there…
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/27922-1/IMG_2741.JPG[/IMG]
Not overly keen on welding as they are quite nice rims 🙂
On the upside of it all the fuel tank is already out:
[IMG]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/27931-1/IMG_2744.JPG[/IMG]
Which means i wont skimp on putting a decent fuel pump in it now 🙂
Edit: oh yeah, i almost forgot. I found that there is absolutely no engine number stamped anywhere on the body, which makes re-registering it a lot easier with another engine.
Interestingly as well it was also silver at some point, the red is exterior only.