The carpet on the side panels of Elan have some rug binding or upholstery binding sewn onto the carpet along the door edge. The carpet kit I purchased didn’t have the binding. Fortunatly for me, my friend again volunteered to help with the sewing. I took about 2 hours and one bought of cussing to get all the sewing done. I still need to make the new fiberboard panels, glue down the carpet and...
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Monthly Archives: February 2004
Carpet and seats
I’m almost done with the carpet installation. Nothing out of the ordinary, just very time consuming. I took a couple of pictures but the black carpet doesn’t show too well. Since I forgot to mention the car was left hand drive, the foot well carpet is cut for the peddle assembly in the right foot well. I’m still trying to decide how to fix this. I think I will make a cut out in...
Tivo Effects
Thanks to the mind reading powers of Tivo we have a new science fiction show to obsess about. Lexx is a Canadian/German series about, umm, well we don’t really know what it’s ABOUT. It’s lost in space with a 6000 year old dead assasisn, a woman who is half love slave/half cluster lizard, a lovesick robot head, and a flunkie who accidentally managed to become the captain of a world-destroying organic spaceship. Simple enough,...
Notes about the Carpet Installation
Like more and more of the restoration, order here is important. I’m spending some time trying to figure out what is the proper order for installing the carpet pieces. This is for a Coupe’. For the interior, this is what I have Rear Tunnel – 7 (This puts the “front” over the “rear”) Rear Wall Floor – 15 (This puts the “front” over the “rear”) Rear Wheelarch LH/RH – 17/16 Center Tunnel, LH/RH –...
Carpets
The carpet kit arrived at the house today. This is going to be fun. There are a dozen or more pieces that are numbered on the back. Lucky for me, the number corresponds to the location in the Lotus parts book. I laid a couple in the car and can tell this is going to be a another consuming operation. While each piece is the correct size and shape, a small amount of fitting...