Testfitting of the carpets
April 17th, 2005

I bought a lot of parts from Christopher Neil Ltd, UK, about a month ago.Among the items in order was a set of black carpets.
First I got delivered carpets for an Elan. I sent them back, and received a package saying carpets for Lotus Europa.

Two days ago I mounted noise reducing carpets on the floor and the wall behind the seats. Today it was time to test fit the new carpets.
It soon became clear that this was not an exact match, though it seemed OK in the beginning.

Starting with the back wall, I had to cut the carpet as it was way to wide for the car. I also had to make the split on each side of the tunnel much bigger.

Se for yourself; click on the picture to see a bigger one.

	Here the two seats are test fitted, after cutting the carpet so it fits quite well. It is still not fastened. As you can see, I have mounted a main swith for total power-off between the seats. This is done both as an extra safety rule, as well as a claim from the insurance company in order to get a 'vintage insurance' on the car. As always; click on the picture to see a bigger one.
	In spite of the carpet neither being cut properly nor being fastened, the interior suddenly starts looking like a car again as soon as the black color fill the cockpit.   As always; click on the picture to see a bigger one. Caterham in background has been on the road for nearly one month already, in spite of the temperatur only showing 5-6 degrees Celcius...
	Cocpit again, from rear window view. It is no big deal taking photoes like this, as the rear window has still not been mounted.   As always; click on the picture to see a bigger one.
	Seats, carpet and main power-off switch   As always; click on the picture to see a bigger one.
	Interior view from above. Console needs tidying, but it looks good, I think ;-)   As always; click on the picture to see a bigger one.
	The whole car, less doors and windows. I really can see the end of this restoration project now, though I am still not sure if I can reach it this summer either...  Too many projetcs - too little time :-( But at least, I'm back into  "Lotus mood"  againg after long time not wanting to see the car at all. First project now is to fit the carpets for real, then paint the doors an mount them to the car. As always; click on the picture to see a bigger one.

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