Alura
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About a month ago, I snagged myself a pearl white 1992 subaru svx, in the picture below it's the car in front. And last week, Mike drove out to Newport, Vermont ( which is more or less in Canada) to get my parts car for me, which is a clone to my car right down to the year it was made and all the equipment. And today, I decided it was time to start my project. Especially considering looking at it in the driveway only cuts it for so long..
SO, this morning I ventured out to move the car from its spot out back, to out front by the shop. (with mikes help of course, considering it has no motor or trans) And started by cleaning out the lovely collection of car parts that were stuffed inside.
The Person who sold us the car had already started ripping apart the interior, so most of the dash has already been torn out.
After pulling all the parts out of the car, I realized that my backseat wasn't in the best of shape, and was looking pretty mad. So I proceeded to ripping out that mangled mess as well, and grabbed the one out of my parts car.
(very unhappy backseat)
This leather dye is pretty cracked on this seat, but re-dying the leather will be a much easier project then fixing the other backseat.
After dealing with my new found problem that was my backseat, I moved on to pulling out the rest of the interior, so that I could rip the disgusting carpet out and clean it.
^^ It looks and smells like someone vomited all through the car and just never bothered to clean it. Absolutely disgusting, I even wore my lovely medical gloves for this task
And it's out!
So it was on to scrubbing and pressure washing the carpet...
Looks fifty times better then it did before. (mike you look dashing in this picture by the way, apparently this was his version of "If you're going to be in the picture then you need to smile")
Next was the trunk. The one that was on the car had no wing, and although that looked clean and all, I just wasn't feeling it without the wing. besides the wing add 10hp right? no?? well i tried
I forgot to snap a picture of the winged trunk, it'll have to wait until friday. Unfortunately I have to do this thing called work for the next two days, awful I know..
Next we ripped the doors off and swapped them with the ones on the parts car.
You know your doors are obnoxiously heavy when it takes two people and a jack to hold them up while you're bolting them on...
Hood off the parts car was next, the one that came on my car was aftermarket, had no subaru badge, and had enough dents and scratches in it that she looked like a hot mess.
This is what the parts car looks like after day one of pillaging, poor thing...
We also had to replace my antenna today by making one good antenna out of both antennas. More work will be done on friday, and all the progress over the entire build will be posted here.
So stay tuned!!
SO, this morning I ventured out to move the car from its spot out back, to out front by the shop. (with mikes help of course, considering it has no motor or trans) And started by cleaning out the lovely collection of car parts that were stuffed inside.
The Person who sold us the car had already started ripping apart the interior, so most of the dash has already been torn out.
After pulling all the parts out of the car, I realized that my backseat wasn't in the best of shape, and was looking pretty mad. So I proceeded to ripping out that mangled mess as well, and grabbed the one out of my parts car.
(very unhappy backseat)
This leather dye is pretty cracked on this seat, but re-dying the leather will be a much easier project then fixing the other backseat.
After dealing with my new found problem that was my backseat, I moved on to pulling out the rest of the interior, so that I could rip the disgusting carpet out and clean it.
^^ It looks and smells like someone vomited all through the car and just never bothered to clean it. Absolutely disgusting, I even wore my lovely medical gloves for this task
And it's out!
So it was on to scrubbing and pressure washing the carpet...
Looks fifty times better then it did before. (mike you look dashing in this picture by the way, apparently this was his version of "If you're going to be in the picture then you need to smile")
Next was the trunk. The one that was on the car had no wing, and although that looked clean and all, I just wasn't feeling it without the wing. besides the wing add 10hp right? no?? well i tried
I forgot to snap a picture of the winged trunk, it'll have to wait until friday. Unfortunately I have to do this thing called work for the next two days, awful I know..
Next we ripped the doors off and swapped them with the ones on the parts car.
You know your doors are obnoxiously heavy when it takes two people and a jack to hold them up while you're bolting them on...
Hood off the parts car was next, the one that came on my car was aftermarket, had no subaru badge, and had enough dents and scratches in it that she looked like a hot mess.
This is what the parts car looks like after day one of pillaging, poor thing...
We also had to replace my antenna today by making one good antenna out of both antennas. More work will be done on friday, and all the progress over the entire build will be posted here.
So stay tuned!!
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