Plush, This is Plush!

Busy beavers we are. Fresh from the paint shop we trimmed out the Gulf Blue 911 with a lightweight perlon carpet set ala 911 RS.
To say this stuff is a massive pain in the butt to install is an understatement. Its OK if you are some sort of glue sniffing teenage oik, you’d love the job but for us its 3m adhesive hell.
Not to mention a complete jigsaw of parts to align, stretch, stick, smooth.

Its the kind of job you love to hate and you have to do a few before it becomes second nature. If you try this at home, be prepared to make a massive mess of it.
Luckily for all those involved its a pretty rewarding job as it turns your project car from ‘that mess thats been in off the road for years’ into ‘a rather fine place to sit’
it kinda feels really good to get new trim inside the car as for most, the end is in sight. Its definately the end of the chopping and hacking, the messy bit. From here on in its nice, clean and shiny parts to go.

As you will no doubt agree. Having a new carpet set makes all the difference. Oh and it wont break the bank!
Might as well do the hood area aswell…

Getting there.

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