Temperatures have been dropping really fast in Finland for the past week. Winter is coming, as Ned Stark would say. So it was time to start the project. I needed to paint the floors and it had to be done while it was still warm so that would be the first job.
The interior would have to come out so I unbolted the seats and put them in storage. Next were the seat belts and kick panels. Then I could remove the carpets and see the actual floors. It was not a pretty sight. Both front foot wells were covered in rust. Rear floors were a bit better but the paint was bubbling there too.
It seemed that the driver side front floor had been fixed at some point. Some parts of the floor had been cut and replaced with straight sheet metal. Other flooring might actually be original for the car. Unfortunately the rust proofing had been done pretty poorly. A really thin layer of paint had been sprayed on the floor and it just was not enough to protect it.
I cleaned most of the dirt and rust away with a wire brush and then vacuumed the interior. That's when I found the holes. Passenger side foot well was the worst. The front corner had a bunch of small holes and there were a few others elsewhere. I guess it could be much worse for such an old car but I still need to fix them before putting the new interior in.
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| Some not-so-professional fixes in the driver floor |
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| Bunch of holes in passenger side floor |
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| Some surface rust in driver side rear floor |
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| And more of the same on passenger side |
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