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No rear seat or any chance of fitting any small ones I'm afraid.. Unfortunately the engine I bought turned out to be a 2.5l version so it's gathering dust in the corner of my garage, I'll probably strip it for spares as they are getting harder to get hold of now and most of the engine is common..
Car and Coach will be doing the trim in leather, I'm getting the door panels redone too while he's at it. Makes it much easier that they have done phantoms before so don't have to do any experimentation so a quicker/better job.. 3 hides have been ordered in 'warm charcoal' and should be ready at the end of the month and I'll get bits over to him.
Also, I lowered the rear end so it site noce and level now..
Hi, have to congratulate you on a superb motor. Have a couple of questions for you. When you started your build threads you talked of changing the colour to Silver but can't find where you changed your mind and went Black ! Also why change those front seats for the S2000's , I thought I read on one page that you were happy with the interior as it had been well trimmed! Otherwise keep up the good work and keep those piccies coming! Cheers
My only doubt about black was getting a good enough finish on the body post all the repair work, I've always loved black cars, they are timeless, also silver is getting far too common these days. When the painter looked over the car he saw no problem in black and my 3 year old son said it should be black so that made the decision easier.
Re interior colour: it was the carpet that kept annoying me, old man brown that I just couldn't put up with. I was going to have to redesign the dash and console anyway so that's why I changed. It is being done by the same people so the quality will still be excellent, hopefully next week!
Now back from Car & Coach where Buddy weaved his magic on the interior, mostly in but I will finish it off and get some pictures over the weekend...
Rich
