I pulled all the carpets and soundproofing up when I first had the car, as it had been outside for a few weeks and the seals leaked like a sieve. It was soaking wet inside, so the seats went into the garage roof to dry (They are a rancid grey velour, so recover those along with the matching door panels you can see below!) and the rest went in the bin. The floor looked OK, but had a layer of surface rust on, and some brown paint.

There’s also a strange hole in the floor under the rear passenger seat. Cant work out whether something has torn out, or something has come through. Either way it doesn’t look right. I hammered it back down so I could clean it up. It all started to clean up easily, and I took off the sill seam covers dreading what I would find underneath. A one cent piece, two earrings and no holes. Amazing.

The footwells looked the worst, so I took the grinder brush to them. I kept going till I’d got rid of the worst of the rust, and found it was full of pinholes. Looking underneath, it looks like it’s rusted from the inside out. Years of soggy carpet probably. Ah well. The floor looks loads better now, not that you can tell from the pics!. Better get it welded and painted up before the rust gets at it again. Next Saturday with a bit of luck. I’ll get in touch with Adam at Tris-R-Us and find out how much a patch panel is.