How To Restore Classic Car Interiors & Chevy Tri-Five Custom Interiors 2 Book Set

Features • Instruments • Dashboards • Seats • Headlinings • Carpets • 

Wooden & synthetic components • Steering wheels • Radios • 3D printing

Packed with restoration know-how on all kinds of interior fittings in your classic car: carpets, headlinings, seats, wood and synthetic material parts, instruments, steering wheels: even how to succeed in making your radio sound just like new! Includes reproduction of parts on a 3D printer.

Here is the ultimate resource packed with restoration know-how on all kinds of interior fittings in your classic car. Starting with an initial cleaning, this new volume, produced in close co-operation with the editors of Europe’s largest vintage car magazine OLDTIMER MARKT, provides easy-to-follow guidance on how to repair and renovate carpets, headlinings, seats, wood and synthetic material parts, instruments, steering wheels: even how to succeed in making your radio sound just like new! A special chapter is dedicated to the reproduction of parts on a 3D printer.

Chevy Tri-Five Custom Interiors is the first of a series of books featuring the work of Ron Mangus, well-known for award-winning custom hot rod interiors. Chevy Tri-Five Custom Interiors features four, two-page photographic spreads for beautiful, custom, award-winning 1955, 1956, and 1957 Chevy hot rods. 

The cars and interiors presented in the book will inspire readers and help them visualize interior design possibilities for their own cars. Detailed photographs of the interior features, accompanied by Ron  's captions, explain the ideas behind the interiors. The design process, color and material selections, unique features, challenges, sound system solutions, and some of the creative problem-solving needed to work out the design. 

Ron is continually asked by customers and hotrod enthusiasts for pictorials of his interiors to enjoy and inspire, and this series answers the desire for a presentation of his creativity and innovation.