Engine back in. Interior almost done.

Last week I got tired of waiting for my new oil lines to arrive and reinstalled the engine in the chassis.

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Interior Trim (also clutch R&R)

Messed around with the interior trim this week while awaiting parts for my clutch. I hired an excellent upholsterer to do the seats last year and he did that very well and for reasonable money but, being me, I decided to do the other stuff myself.

Most of the vinyl on a Spyder’s interior is just glued to the sheet metal and maybe screwed in with a panel screw—easy enough for a duffer like me to accomplish. The firewall, for example, seems to have just a small fold along the top. But the door tops are special.

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