Alright, so because Im a full-time student its hard for me to find time and money to work on my baby but this weekend i finally got a chance to make the first big step by removing most of the interior. Its pretty rough, the carpet fell apart like dust. I pulled the seats, carpet, and rear panels. The floors are rusted out where feet rest but the seat supports are in good shape except in the rear. I was wanting some opinions on replacing the floors and seats. I'm not going for a stock look really so i was wondering if i should replace the floors with oem reproduction pans or if new sheetmetal would do the trick (with proper protection and car of course). And i was going to refurbish the seats but lately I've seen a few setups with aftermarket racing seats installed and they looked really sharp, if i did use them i would be putting bucket seats in the rear also. Waddaya think?

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well, i think you got your work cut out for yourself. are you expierienced at welding? doesnt seem as bad as some

 

WOW dude good luck you have alot of word ahead of you, hope you can weld,...i would replace the entire floor if i were you,...those seat platforms look like toast too, i wouldnt trust my seat being bolted to those,...

 

Yeah i can weld a bit but I've a lot of connections to welders that are both friends and professionals

 

What state are you from vineman?

 

Out of sheer convenience.. replace the whole pan with a reproduction unit. I did mine, and couldn't imagine doing it from scratch. Be sure to remove your existing pan in one piece if you can, so you can reference it when re-attaching little brackets and stuff to your new one. Take plenty of pics and notes. You WILL use them! Good Luck!! There are tons of experinced folks here who love helping out...check out the before and after pics... I was able to do it with all the advice that was given to me here..





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Wow that floor turned out awesome john721.

Im living in southwestMissouri.

 

how are the frame rails? if the floors are that bad...


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havent gotten to fully inspect the rails but from what i can see theyre in sturdy shape but I'm going to at least reinforce them

 

rear bucket seats=meh. Personally, I think that would look pretty bad unless you are good with custom upholstery and can do something like the back seat of a porsche or something where they are individual seats but are connected together. It would look bad to just have 2 bucket seats in the back with an awkward gap between them.