Ferrari Mailing List: Interior restoration continues, Mondial

[Rick Lindsay (rolindsay]

Hello,

   Earlier I wrote a comment in passing, regarding restoring the Mondial's 
interior.  Here's a bit of follow-on.  So far, I have applied a few treatments 
to the seat leather and have now cleaned up the rubber molding and winlace on 
the driver's side.  Here's a quick look, 
http://www.aubard.us/Mondial/HPIM1297.JPG .  You can see that I have removed 
the main carpets.  They have been shampooed and dried.  I then heated the 
rubberized backing and flattened it, taking out the ages-old wrinkles.  With 
the sill carpet recemented along the winlace, I can now shampoo that bit of 
carpet too for a clean, soft finish.  When all that stuff is done I'll 
reinstall the main carpets.
   I also cleaned and repainted the handbrake handle semi-gloss black.  The 
leather wrap has been treated to a bath of Leatherique's R-oil.  You can see 
the handle and the leather cover better in the slightly-out-of-focus shot, 
http://www.aubard.us/Mondial/HPIM1298.JPG .  The leather still needs to be 
wiped down.

rick