Finished Interior

One of the last things to finish on the car was the interior. After having life disrupted with an unplanned relocation to Vermont, I decided to have Little John over at Interior Concepts & Design have his team finish the interior. John is the interior technical expert for the Southern California Solid Axle Corvette Club, and has a beautiful C1 of his own. 

Mutt went into the shop with a white top that didn't have all the weatherstripping installed, but the top wasn't properly installed, so John sold me on his custom top. He did it with a modern cloth matching the interior color, rather than the vinyl of the originals, and he has a custom removable rear window that he does on C1 Corvettes.  True to his prediction, the rear window hasn't come out of it's storage bag yet.

The interior is 1970 Corvette Light Saddle. Al Knock did the carpet kit, molded dash and door panels and seat covers, though John's team cleaned up the door panels and significantly reworked the seats.

Rather than the original springs, the seats are now on John's custom molded Urethane cores, giving a much more comfortable seat, and eliminating the out of phase harmonics with the C4 suspension. John sits customers to get the appropriate seat height, so the core is a lot shorter than the stock C1 seat to match my long torso.

 The passenger package tray was installed for the first time in the 17 years I've owned the car. Who knows how long it was missing before that.

I just wanted a simple mat in the trunk, but my wife convinced me a proper finish to the trunk was what the car really needed.