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'87 745 Turbo Theis K1

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I visit my dad last week on our wedding tour and picked up a trunk full of undamaged interior plastic parts and some black carpets front and rear. Not sure if it came from factory this way, but all the interior plastics and the seats are black, but the carpet and the roof liner are dark gray. Most of the trunk carpets where black as well, but worn and the driver side cover was gray as well... Got all the pieces to get anything colormatched again.
All the parts I took from cars that are sitting outside or in the shed for years... Took me and my wife nearly a full day to get the carpets clean and shiny again.

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Trunk before:
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Trunk currenty:
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The carpet itself now is colormatched again. The side panel on the left will replaced with another one with the carpet in mint shape.

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The headliner...

Well, the same part a day later:
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It now need some trimming and I have to do the sunroof as well.
 
Trunk before:
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Trunk currenty:
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The carpet itself now is colormatched again. The side panel on the left will replaced with another one with the carpet in mint shape.

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The headliner...

Well, the same part a day later:
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It now need some trimming and I have to do the sunroof as well.

You lost the "after picture" of your headliner?
 
Todays misson: Reupholster the inner sunroof panel.

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Everthing back together and fitted in the car.

The headliner itselt is so fragile, that I have to wait for a friend to come by and help me out.

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Direct comparisson between the old and new headliner fabric.

Today I finally recieved a genuine "Turbo" trunk badge from a 240 Turbo. I scored the "Turbo" grill emblem as well, but it hasn't arrived yet.
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Stopped work on the headliner at the moment, because I'm trying to source a glas sunroof swap from a late 960 or V90 to replace the corroded metal sunroof that I have right now.

Instead I refurbished my grill.

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Put it apart, repainted it, polished the crossbar and repainted the Turbo badge as well.

That I don't have to drive without a grill, while working on it a friend lend me his spare grill...

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I guess we don't have to argue about which grill does look better... :D

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While working on the car I finally painted my driver side mirror as well. The passenger side I already replaced with a used unit, I painted as well. Now they look even. The passenger side was the worst when I got the car.

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Passenger side before...

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Driverside after.
 
I managed to get my hands on a used Turbo+ kit. The solenoid was missing, but I found a NOS unit to complete it. I already installed it, but so far I wasn't able to get it to work with the LH2.2... If somebody has some tips, feel free to contact me.
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Second kind of rare score: A parcel shelf to replace. That's in my eyes the cleanest way to remove the ugly mounting brackets for the trunk cover without getting rid of it completly. I just need to the original mounting pieces.
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What's the smartest thing to do when you freshly reupholstered the inner panel from your stock metal sunroof? Exactly, get your hands on a 960 glass sunroof and do the job over again. The blind it comes with was gray and dirty. So I reupholstered it as well and painted the handle black. Today I installed it and did some rust removal when the sunroof was out.

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I deleted the old violet winddeflector including the self made brakets from the preowner and tried the OEM one my dad gave me. The brown tint on the sunroof and the brown tinted deflector are such a good looking combination. Can't wait to get some brakets and install it together with the set of brown tinted OEM window visors for all four doors.

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Finally the headliner is done. Just a little reminder how it looked before:

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And that's now. The sunroof cut out is done as well. I used some velours piping, usually used on the classic Jaguars to finish it off.

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The last day in 2020 I decided to drive to the shop and swap out the carpets and fix some interior parts...

Only interior part I managed to fix:
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Much better now.
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But than 2020 did, what it could to best... Well, didn't expect to found that below the carpets - including some water.

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The car need to be driveable on monday, so we can use the workshop for customer cars again, so I decided to fix the worst part first. Driverside below the brake booster where the firewall meet the inner fender.

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For that repair the pedals and the brake booster need to come out - I took the chance to paint the booster.

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And I sand blasted and painted the upper radiator brakets.

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That's the result from last sunday and today. All floors are cleaned, rust is removed, all holes are patched up and sealed and everything is resprayed. The old rustpatches from the preowner are not great, but as long as they do their job I'll leave them as the are.

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The car was parked in the rain the whole week. Passanger side stayed dry, but on the driver side I found a new leak. Luckily it seems like an easy fix: The old sealant broke and let the water in...

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I also repainted the wipers.

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To finish it all off I bought a snow cap at aution in sweden. Can't wait to get it. :)
 
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