Bye-bye Yellow Civic, Hello Brown!

[neanderpaul]

You're such an excellent photographer!

[rakfint]

^ Thanks guy

[DriverOne]

Rakfint, I'm glad you didn't lose your new toy! Your car looks brand new inside. Looking at those pictures, I think painting the rest of the trim in that color (wherever you said it didn't quite match) would do great. If you bought a vinyl shift boot and painted it the color of the doors, you'd really set that interior off!

[rakfint]

yeah I actually thought the same thing about the matching shifted boot, ill have to start shopping for one I think

[rakfint]

My 2 Loves

[DriverOne]

Great old-school pic there! Now for a few scenery shots!

[rakfint]

After painting my door cards a lighter shade of tan it was bugging me that my rear door inserts, arch covers & seat did not match so I started work at painting everything the new lighter shade.

You'll see the darker (original) colour in the middle of the rear seats creating a 2 tone affect, still unsure if I like it or not but it'll do for now.

While I had everything apart I also painted the black door buckets.

[neanderpaul]

Amazing work and photography as usual. Are you getting offers on it?

[rakfint]

I sold the yellow one, it's gone to a good home. This is my new baby, had a few people ask if i'd sell but no chance!

[DriverOne]

Paint the centers to match the body color. Inherently ricer, but in all actuality when it's properly done it's well worth the effort.

[sasquatch]

looking good

[rakfint]

So just after all this talk of the rear pockets, I removed them.

I have been without music in this car since i've owned it but I decided it's finally time to change that.

I live in a questionable area, so for this reason I wanted to be careful about having stereo gear on show in fear someone may break in, in fact I usually leave my car with no valuables in it and unlocked so that way nothing is broken in an attempt.

I plan on installing the deck in the glove box, but I was struggling for ideas on how / where to mount speakers when I decided on the following.

Mounted behind are 6x9 PPI speakers (thanks Justin) I didn't get any photos as it look fairly ghetto back there.





How it looked before.

[DriverOne]

May I offer a suggestion? You can buy subwoofer box carpeting/covering that passes sound through much better than the wood (although that's gorgeous!) with a few holes inside. You could add the carpeting to the wood so it just looked like trim. Man, I love this car... If only there were more of them...

[rakfint]

DriverOne, behind this is actually a wood structure with a hole where the speaker center is. The woodgrain you see is actually just a decal, there is no wood covering the speaker. Pretty convincing though obviously :p

thanks

[Pu241]

rakfint, is that a interior light on the inside top of the back hatch centered on the rear passenger seat?