I will post my not oldschool enough convertible project here!
Me and my hubby crazytim got her from a friend in a horrible state in 2006. The vinyl exterior hood was completely stuffed witha lot of duct tape doing... not much! It had horrible steel rims, a big rusty gouge in the bonnet, missing wing mirror, missing grill, absolutely filthy in and out... but hey not bad for $700!
After selling our Mazda MS8 the money went straight into a new hood @ $1200. A good investment. We had already stripped out the interior and cleaned all the plastic trims, as well pulling the body plugs then scrubbing and hosing the floor pan out. We then treated the minimal surface rust and hosed out the carpet... the water was dark brown coming out of it!
After swapping bonnet for spare from tims 1st mazda, grill also, wingmirror off his 2nd Mazda, (which was originally on his 1st mazda)and Mags from his old Mazdas (same rims been on all 3...) we then gave her a good cut and polish and she now looks pretty tidy, few scratches and chips in paint but this is to be covered up soon by a vinyl camoflage cover up wrap... (watch this space, sounds lame now I read it but should be pretty cool, theres a bit of a twist involved...and sorry boys itll be a bit girly, but I'm allowed to!)
I also currently have the door cards out to re-trim the inserts which come out of the main card... not 100% sure how I am going to do this yet... this is where research on olschool.co.nz comes in!
She is pretty standard and unmolested other than a couple of dodgy head unit installs which is good, and other than the odd puff of smoke runs well and hasn't failed... actually has just once... oops!
More as we get cracking!