heinrich

heinrich

For the benefit of those who helped me so immensely, JE; MarkA and JimB; and DonH.... here's the nearly finished result. I installed (finally) that new centre console Int'l sent me 9 months ago. Still have to wrap Rob Budd's leather over the a-pillars and instal the sunroof frame, and a few small things here and there to be done, but I am very pleased so far.
'87 5spd, leather everywhere. Now that is an interior I can drive in!!

Porsche5050

Looks very, very nice.

heinrich

Thanks Tariq I am very happy with it

sharkmeister85

You'll get a lot of driving pleasure from that. Mine could use some work. Is that a GTS **** and boot on the stock shifter?
Glenn

Flott Leben

Heinrich,

Looks very nice. Did you put the dash cover on yourself or did a shop do it? All you need is the pod cover now!

heinrich

Hey Glenn, agreed :-) Flott no covers here. New Porsche leather dash; pod and centre console.

heinrich

It is a Specialists GTS shift ****/boot yes, with original pattern.

Weissach

Wow! Do you mean to say that it's a "new" leather dash, pod and center console from Porsche? That must of cost more than the car itself. Please tell us more!! More pics too...

heinrich

Correct, new from Porsche, in Porsche boxes. Thanks to Mark Anderson :-)

Flott Leben

WOW


Sorry, I thought you used Rob's covers all around. New Porsche leather parts!! Man, you must have money to burn But, I'm sure the look/quality/enjoyment is well worth it. Good work.

heinrich

The interior used to be 100% burgundy, and the only leather parts were the seats. Doors had aftermarket crappy speakers, vinyl was loose, dash was cracked in some 250 places, some big enough that I found several lost radar detectors in them Seats used to be 8way.

Now she has sport seats (928 ones); perforated leather doors; everything leather and what isn't leather is going to be leather; rear shoulder belts; rear ac delete and saddle added; as stated new Porsche leather dash, pod, centre console; and I refreshed all the little vacuum thingies. Also replaced carpet. However, clearly the console sides need replacing and I'll fab them soon. The glove box door is leather but I could't find an unwarped one. Parcel trays; doors, ceiling, armrest handles; quarters (perforated); sunroof frame; etc all leather. Btw that frame ... very hard to find a leather one in good shape. Impossible I think at this point. I'll go find some before pics ... not pretty. As for the car itself, it is worthy. A very strong 5spd. My favourite car.

Shane E.

Very Cool, Heinrich!!

heinrich

Flott no, no money here. When I started this project 2 years ago, there was no Rob Budd. ANd I lost some money trying to buy ebay parts, with ppl ripping me off passing cracked vinyl off as leather, so I called Mark Anderson one day and he sold me the dash. Next I discovered that there was no way a vinly pod could live on that dash, so I called Mark, and a second Porsche box arrived. When I got that installed it was clear I could not live with the recoloured centre console I had (it was perfect, but different grain) ... I went through 4 consoles, and they are filling my study at this point. So I called Mark again. And another Porsche box arrived. Inbetween all this, I had got several small leather pieces from DonH; and JE and I had done a major amount of trading, which got me much of the rerst of the interior. Then I went and tore the carpet out of a local parts car. And so it went .....

heinrich

Shane your interior will soon be nearly perfect too :-)