Okay, bear with me this is slow progress uploading then plopping them on here. In the picture below you will see firstly, the car needs a vacuum. Secondly the dashboard is REALLY flat, wasn't always like that but so glad I got that sorted as I was fed up with it looking like soggy cardboard.
It's difficult for photographing but the seats are made with jet black shetland leather, as used in higher spec Renaults, but thicker. The piping is actually thinner Italian leather in the most vibrant red there is, just difficult to show this in photos. The carpet which is black (was origionally grey) isn't the synthetic fibre crap Land Rover issue, it's made with wool. Nearly forgot, also had the door cards done with the same black leather, did try them with piping around them too but didn't like the look of too much red, I'm more of a moody goth.
Trying to show more of the same, please bear with me..
As you can see, I've also got the rear seats done, did contemplate having the seatbelts changed for black ones but couldn't be bothered. The keen of eye will notice there is no door card on the luggage compartment door, this is because I removed it to fit additional speakers, work in progress.
As you can see the headrests of the front seats are different, basically hard cell foam filled the gap and leather put around it to make it slightly cushioned and stop it looking as plasticy at the top, but still wanted to retain the handles as they look cool.
This is the middle section of seats, obviously (to Discovery owners). I had extra soundproofing layed down here under the seats and over the rear arches as I didn't like the howling I got at motorway speeds, seemed to have reduced it a fair bit. Was unsure wheteher or not to have it piped to make the middle seat look seperate but decided against it as wanted it to look different, but still factory built (not over the top like some Halfords special, which at what it costs, it certainly isn't).
You can tell I had a new towbar fitted at some point, but ran out of money and used the old steps haha. Was going to replace them, but they only get used for me to hop up when cleaning the roof anyways. Speaking of cleaning, sorry the car is so filthy, I've not had time to bother this week.
This is a view of one of the rear seats, the wire you see is from the subwoofer I had to remove, I have 2 15" Kicker competition subwoofers pumping out in the region of 3000w of bass alone, then another 2000w in component speakers. Whenever I take my family about or my cousins to the park they seem to have to sit on these little seats, novelty of waving at other cars behind them I think.
This is one of the subwoofers, as you can see it's too bloody big, It's like having a 15" alloy wheel, in a big wooden box, both subs literally fill the boot when in so have to be removed if I'm travelling with alot of passengers. Make a nice noise though, I've had soundfiles on the stereo of a 3.9 V8i once when driving past some people looked VERY confused to hear a V8 racing when a diesel chugs past. Also drowned out many a chavs music in their Nova's with stuff like Black Sabbath.
The outside, when it's clean the paintwork looks BRAND NEW, it should do, used over 9 litres apparently, lot of acid etch, primer, gel coat, flexible undercoat on the underside of the vehicle and lots and lots of that black paint then a fair few coats of gloss laquer.
The front of the beast, as I mentioned I've not put the bullbars and Wipac driving lamps back on yet, soon as I do I'll upload more pictures. I also have approx 500 pictures at various stages of the rebuild, from how it was (standard, Avalon Blue) and as it was dismantled, bits checked, removed, replaced, strengthened, lightened, changed, upgraded, rebuilt, painted and modified. Availiable on request. *bows*
God, I love my car.
A view of the side, as I said before I've not had much time to clean it this weekend but probably will do later on. When cleaned and polished it looks better than my mate's Discovery 3 and that's only 6 months old! I have done nearly everything I wanted to with this car, just need to finish a few small things and fit a full size roof rack and then it's done. Can't wait to build my next one:
Land Rover Discovery 5.2 V8i 3 door manual. Will be an absolute beast with wide, box arches like a Lancia Delta and muchos performance modifications.
