This turned out to be one of the easiest jobs I've attempted . Each part of the project could be completed with just a minimum of time commitment.

The first step was to order the individual components. The door panels, carpet, top cover and seat upholstery came from Caribou as a package and were of excellent quality. Even though they were bought at the same time and from the same vendor, one of the problems you get into with putting together an interior is that you get about five different colors of beige. This is so common even with factory cars, that we tend to accept it as normal, though it would be nice if someone would try to coordinate the colors more carefully. The only problem was that Ed couldn't get the door panels for about a year after the rest of the package arrived. Gotta be careful with Ed. He is a great vendor, but you still have to be careful.

The dash came from IAP and is the "dreaded" hard plastic aftermarket variety. For a variety of reasons that I won't go into here, I will say that I prefer this hard plastic dash over the original style. This car is not a show car and is driven often in nice weather. the hard plastic is not going to crack and is very strong. Just for fun, I've put up a picture of the old dash. It was covered in a sewn vinyl / carpet cover that was in pretty bad shape. The dash installation is very simple after you get the gauges out. All of the mounting holes lined up and the fit with the windshield and corner trim is excellent.

The seat covers go on very easily. They are made with the original attachment points so you can use the same mounting attachment points for the new material that you had with the old. While you have the seats and carpet out, it's a good time to clean up the whole area. I probably got out about 10lbs of junk that was stuck to the seat pans and floor panels. A nice thing was finding out that there was no rust in the seats and floor pans. I took the opportunity to grease the reclining mechanism and seat slides while they were disassembled.

I ordered some seat belts from JC Whitney with retractors and mounted them in the original holes and they add some to the sense of safety, though I doubt that they would be much good in the case of a major shunt. Needless to say the new interior is an improvement over the old. I believe I have about one day in the seats, and another in the carpet-seatbelt project and maybe a day with the dashboard door weather striping project. Easy work and the result is worth the time and money.