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For those that asked about the interior changes, here is a quick rundown.

I made a change to the dash pad and knobs/bezels shorty after I bought my original Speedster.  I just wanted to fine tune things towards authenticity...  I also changed the door top caps around the same time.  Joe's was one of the first with this treatment.  All cars get this as a standard now.

The door cards are up to the customer.  We do flat, like the original, flat with a pocket, or "D" style with locking map pocket. We also do other custom finishes upon request... we always have, but we have a bit more flexibility now that we have 3 full time upholsterers in-house.

The floor carpet and kick panel carpet with pockets was the most recent change.  Floor shape changed due to the new chassis and while we lost a tiny bit of room left of the clutch, we gained 2" seating height, which is huge.  The kick panel pockets were just something I wanted for authenticity purposes,  plus if you do a flat door card, the kick panel pocket give you a place to store things easily.  The area behind the seat changed slightly.  Honestly it was  needed to clear the new chassis, but I did it in a way that resembled the shelf of the original also.

Oh yeah we also did away with the tunnel mounted e-brake last year.  I did under dash umbrella handles on the first several cars, but Im not happy with the function so we're using an electronic ebrake now, testing the waters, and integrating them into the car's wiring so they can;t be operated while moving and they display a "park brake indicator" on the dash/gauge when engaged.

I think this is the last upgrade to Sam's car before I put the last long drive in her and ship...

@chines1 wrote: "If you do a flat door card, the kick panel pockets give you a place to store things easily."

I love that, and I, of course, have the el Cheapo CMC flat panel doors, so I'm gonna look at how I can possibly add the kick panel map pockets, too.  I have a YUGE! roll of the same Burgundy carpet that's in there and have been looking for another project, now that the garden's been rained out.  

You don't happen to have a few photos of what your kick panel pockets look like that you could post, do you?  I don't want to remove the kick panel carpet to sew the pocket on so I'll have to be creative in how I attach them.  

Thanks!

IM’s version is fashioned in hard aluminum II believe and they are held down with screws that hide in the carpet square weave .

Yhe original had overlapping carpet with a sewn edge which gapped a bit as a pant side pocket they were pretty cool in my original.

Glad to see you do those Carey, very nice addition.  I think they are special order at IM but you have to request them as they are not on the custom order sheet at order time same with moving the wheel archways or pie cuts for 6 cyl. Cars

Great convenience item IMO

Now @chines1 are we getting a 356A coupe from you sometime?  That new frame should work with any body

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That's what I had in mind, Bob.  My floor/kick panel spaces are a little different, but I had already thought of just getting a colored border to match or complement the carpet color and just screwing it to the body.  I believe that I still have the heavy vinyl "binding" that came from CMC for a portion of my CMC seats that I never used, and I bought an entire roll of color matched carpet (8' X 12') at Home Depot almost 20 years ago.  I've been using it for a new driver's side carpet every few years as I wear a heal hole in it.  Maybe I can graft in a rubber pad for that, too.

YAY!  I've found another project to consume part of the next few days!

@IaM-Ray posted:


Now @chines1 are we getting a 356A coupe from you sometime?  That new frame should work with any body

I think there is a "gentleman's agreement" of sorts for turnkeys there. Greg does the bent window pre-A, JPS the A, and Carey the C. I wish Greg and Carey did an A coupe though, I'd gladly buy from either of them and NOT from JPS. It's not the car, it's John.

I know there are a few others that make an A body: Ralph Albiter in Mexico, Kitman Motors, and maybe more.

Nobody does or wants the B, unless it's a real one.

@IaM-Ray the speedster chassis would work for someone else's coupe body however mounting to the chassis would be different and it would certainly need reworked at the rockers and inner sills and wheel wells.  My coupe chassis would not work for anyone else's body.  

No, I do not plan on an A coupe body.  The last thing I need right now is a new project.  Sales of what I make currently are still outselling production 4x and we're still in the learning/tweeking phase on our newest 2 products, plus I am knee deep in a watercooled chassis (Boxster) for the 904GTS.

FYI, I started with the A body when we took off on this project and then everyone had an A so I decided to do my own thing, plus it is also "in my blood" from the ENVEMO days of my father...

@Gordon Nichols  I make mine out of composite and then they go on afterwards.  they aren't as integrated as the originals, BUT I also need them to be easily removable so you can access the kick panel cover for hinge access, speaker access, wiring harness access, etc...  Anyway, they have one attachment point at the bottom and then 2 at the top, all of which get covered over with an insert after they are installed.  I'll e-mail you pics.

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