We always had a general idea of what we wanted to do with the
interior and, as you know (see article 33), we had a seat frame.
Once we settled on our exterior colour (red), we started the arduous
task of trying to come up with an interior colour. Naturally,
all the usual suspects came to mind. That is, tan, black, etc.
However,
when we showed our exterior colour to John Wilkie (Auto Interiors
by John - Grimsby, Ontario), he immediately said "it can
only be one colour". Naturally, we said "and that would
be?" When he said "red", we said that we'd have
to think about that one. So, we took some swatches and off we
went - thanking John for complicating the process (we ultimately
thanked him for this suggestion).
After
considerable thought, we concluded that John was right and that
it, in fact, couldn't be any other colour. Our main reason for
going with a red interior (other than John loved it) had to do
with our flame job. Specifically, looking through this flame job
(especially with the door open) and seeing anything other than
red would not have worked in our opinion.
We
gave John the green light and off we went. Red leather and carpet
were ordered then John and I spent considerable time discussing
the layout of the seat stitching and other design elements.
The
results are below (thanks to John for the killer job):
