Has anyone done anything cool with the interior of there '70s trucks? is there any brushed aluminum or chrome in there? Cool upholstry and floors? Completely custom dashes with mustang gauges? Mild or Wild?

 

Sorry, mine's stock exept for the 91 Bronco seat. BIG improvement. I still need to wire up the lumbar supports.

 

I put down more than $300 worth of Super-Dynamat in my cab and doors.
While the dash was out S-D went inside the dash and everywhere else.
Floor too. Filled the "strengthening ribs" in the floor with Bondo ...a wire
brush on a little "hand grinder" worked like a charm smoothing the Bondo. :)

I'm weird. :/
I'm anti-chrome. :/
Removed the chrome plating off the dash even. :)
000 steel wool mostly and a little bit of 600 open-coat sandpaper for
the removal part then smoothed it up with "finer something" that I don't
remember off hand. ;)

http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/gearshift.jpg

The "flashy;)" walnut **** has been changed to a plain round black ball
from some old farm equipment a friend gave me. :)

The gear shift lever extension along with re-bending the lever is "doing
something cool with the interior", I guess? :)

The **** just clears the steering wheel between 1st and 2nd and when
"all the way in" 2nd or 4th my elbow doesn't bump into the seat back.

The walnut **** (from Napa) went on in early '75 and the extension and
the lever re-bending was done in '79. :)

My pickup was ordered with a rubber floor mat. :)
14 years ago I installed 73-79 fitted carpet. (black)
I removed the "padded" dash about 14 years ago too.
(while the engine was out for 6 months)

http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/dash.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/dash1.jpg

I need to get some new black carpet to cover that again just haven't got
round-2-it. :) The carpet from Pep-Boys disintegrated in the AZ sun despite
the package's claims (salesman crap;) to the contrary. ;)

Thinking about the plastic door covers and how if I had it to do all over again
(or bought some new ones) I'd put "jack nuts" in the door and drill holes
through the plastic and support the "clip gap" in the plastic by gluing in some
more plastic to fill that gap.

Oh yeah, I'm anti-clip too. ;)
Clips are great for the factory but a pain for me, IMO.
YMMV

I need to get my scanner and camera going again, I came up with a cool
way to fix a broken screw hole in the dash panel. The idea is good to
prevent any other holes from ever wanting to break out. :) Came up with
that about 14 years ago too. :)

Doggonit I didn't write it in my book... '76 or '77 I installed a Dana speed
control from Sears. ...after the "padded" dash removal the remote was
moved to here...

http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/speedcontrol.jpg
Never had the remote on the turn signal level (ick!). :)

A guy can spend hours and hours figuring out how to fix something that
takes 'im (or others) 15 minutes to install. That's just one measly little
thing that's cool about the internet. :) Sharing those ideas.

Alvin in AZ

 

Nothing special. New Dennis Carpenter door panels with Pioneer speakers in the doors, boxed Pioneers behind the seat, and a Pioneer head unit. There is even a USB port behind the ash tray to play MP3's off a flash drive. Also some Sunpro gauges. I can't find a seat cover I'm happy with so there are towels down for now.

 

looks good to me FMC towels go along way!!

 

Im pretty sure im going to use spray on bedliner as flooring, easy to clean. FMC.. how much do those door panels cost and how many colors do they come in?

 

The Dennis Carpenter ones run $100 per side. They are made with original Ford tooling. I know DC makes them in red, blue and black; it seems like I remember them coming in other colors but looking through their website, those three were all I could find for now. There are some more pictures of the panels in my gallery.

 

I'll have to shoot some photos of mine, but I can definitely recommend the Herculiner bedliner kit for the floors. I replaced my floor pans and cleaned up the welds before painting on the Herculiner. You wouldn't know it had any work done to the floors now.

 

Here's my towel

Just trying to protect the original seats

 

Got a Pabst beer bottle cap on the headlight pull ****. It fits real snug, wont fall off when turning the headlights on and pops off no problem without scratching the ****

 

I invested in some spare parts, garbage, and a special fog machine. To this day I *still* blame the 3 year old for breaking the seal on the *cough* smoke machine...

 

Hey M78, theres two reasons i bought my '78; 1. My dad had one 2. my uncle had one, yours looks absolutely identicle to my uncles '78 except his had a C6. looks pretty sweet, rock on!

 

yeah this is my "updated" interior, yes a lovely berber carpet (helps in the winter keep things insulated it does help) and a center console which is nice, a ply wood door panel mine was destroyed and a nice alpine cd deck.

 

there was a thread about showing off your interiors before. the other day I was searching for it and couldn't find it. oh well