interior retrim - material ideas?

[SeventyNine]

hi, long time no speak indeed!

this morning ive been walking around the birmingham rag market with swmbo as she's into making dresses n the like, now as I'm walking around, I'm thinking about cars, in a world of my own, as i start seeing all these rather nice fabrics and materials i ask the question:

'you know my car right, how hard would it be to retrim the interior?'

her: 'pretty easily i should imagine'

me: including the rooflining and door cards and seats and stuff?'

her: 'yeah, not really an issue'


so, thats got me thinking of materials........

a few ideas so far include
- denim
- hessian
- a mixture of neon colours
- a load of old designer clothes cut up into patchwork
- various combinations of leather with bits of netting, tartans, kiche patterns etc.

so, i put it to you, what do you think would look good? I'm really on a denim look, various shades, with the proper jeans type stitching and grommets, maybe even a few pockets ;D ;D

oh, this is the interior in question:

[Davenger]

Tartan centre panels, like the old capris

[reanimation]

Quite nice already, but'd be thinking about what will go with ya Escort since its looking so smart. Cool though if she's gonna trim it for ya.

[Oldbus]

I´d use an old spare interior so that, when and if, you get sick of it you can swap back.

You do realize how good you have it, as i started doing the interior of the bus and asked the misses if she fancied giving us a had she told me to "sod off and do it yourself"!!

...so count yourself lucky!!!

[tigran]

Dunno denim just sounds uncomfy to the max. I deffo reckon it should be two tone, and as someone said it should deffo have a check centre section.

[Robinxr4i]

Denim is a no no for me my mate used to have one of those Pug 205 limited editions with jeans interior it was rank!

Is your interior from a Mk5 Escort RS2000?

Personally I reckon hessian recaros would rawk......



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= wierd but I reckon it would work!

Very hard wearing, but maybe a bit itchy and scratchy!

[arthurbrown]

HUMAN SKIN.

[SeventyNine]

pog FT 'texas chainsaw' W

I'm seriously thinking about keeping the leather and replacing the centres with hessian, and re-doing the door cards in leather/hessian, with hessian rooflining and carpet

keep the recaro badges etc

(interior is out of a rover 800 and owes me about £30 so not 'too' bothered about butchering it for the good of doing something different ;

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lathamescortmk2 said:

pog FT 'texas chainsaw' W

I'm seriously thinking about keeping the leather and replacing the centres with hessian, and re-doing the door cards in leather/hessian, with hessian rooflining and carpet

keep the recaro badges etc

(interior is out of a rover 800 and owes me about £30 so not 'too' bothered about butchering it for the good of doing something different ;

Why did you ask us when you already had the idea of ABSOLUTE WIN!

[Nathan]

LMAO @ Pog

[SeventyNine]

i only had the idea after i wrote the post.

any one any pics of retrimmed interiors in anything other than the usual leather/alacantra?

[Nathan]

More to the point how is the engine conversion going, will it/you be at RRS

[HoTWire]

arthurbrown said:

HUMAN SKIN.

It rubs the lotion on its skin

I like the idea of hessian and leather,.. kind of two ends of the luxury spectrum..

[michiel]

Brilliant! Get some old flour or coal bags with cool logos on them...

Or something like this?

[SeventyNine]

engine 'should' be running for RR, if it is then i can make it down, if not ill bring the blue one........

[Butterz]

Denim would look gash imo. Interior looks pretty mint, is it damaged hence the need for a retrim?

[SeventyNine]

nah, its fine - but its always going to be recognised as a rover interior, and i can have a retrim for the price of the fabric (around £50 in hessian for roof, floor, door cards and seats) so why not? ;D

the rest of the car is going to be finished to a pretty high standard so i want to get the interior looking good too

[Butterz]

good point!
I've roped my Dads missus into re-trimming the chevette when I get to that point, she used to make wedding dresses so I'm hoping for a decent outcome. I'm going to be lame and go for black vinyl though

Embossed Maltese crosses in the door cards FTW!

[SeventyNine]

i think its decided, but as with the paint colour, itll all change up til the point i actually do it ;D

[devilishdesigner]

cord insert with fishnet overlay?