How To Restore Classic Car Interiors & Convertible Top Restoration and Installation 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.

There’s an old saying we’ve all heard before that goes “When the top goes down the price goes up.” Of all the projects involved with the restoration of your collector car, few seem as challenging or confusing as addressing the convertible top. Due to aging and neglect, the hardware and fabric covering have led to some “not-so-nice conditions,” making it difficult to find information addressing your specific model.

Fred Mattson, author of Automotive Upholstery and Interior Restoration, delivers this compilation on restoring and repairing convertible tops. Step-by-step photo sequencing walks you through convertible top applications for Corvettes, Ford retractable tops, scissors tops, manual tops, and power tops. Fred also addresses the weather seals, well liners, hydraulic/electrical systems, adjustments, materials, and pads. No other book ever produced on convertible tops goes into this much depth of coverage.

With this book you will be guided through the convertible top repair/restoration process in an easy-to-read how-to format, so there should be no reason to fear taking your drop top out with the threat of rain. Convertible Top Restoration and Installation will be the one tool that will show you how important a well-sorted top restoration is, not only for practical reasons, such as staying dry, but for cosmetic reasons as well.

• Tens of millions of convertibles have been constructed since the 1920s
• With step-by-step procedures, it will be much easier restoring your convertible top with this book
• Convertible-equipped collector cars are the most valuable of all automobiles