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Interior Install (1/20)
5/23/11 6:45pm

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Holland Patent, NY - USA

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#1 *1980 White, Red interior 14,000 mile #2 *1980 Red, Oyster interior 93,000 miles Resto project car, rebuilt to 383 stroker

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I took a bunch of pictures of Chucks carpet install, I plan to put it into a powerpoint with notes of what to do and what not to do's. It's not hard but very time consuming even for the pro it is an all day job.

One of the favorite lines told over and over by the MA crew was "Every C3 leaks, even the ones that don't leak...leak"

Chucks floor pans, once the old carpets were removed had an inch of water sitting in them, the installers said that was amazing because most have two inches!

If you would like a copy of the power point let me know. (PM me) I'll most likley burn it to a CD as the file will most likely be to large to e-mail. I'll start this soon as the mind is still fresh.

One thing really cool is the molds do not care what color or what style carpet they mold, if you want C6 plush just tell them the color. Once I saw all the possibilitys I'm going to put something different in my project car.

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Interior Install (2/20)
5/23/11 10:20pm

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Red Lion, PA - USA

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1974 White 350 Corvette, TH400 Automatic 1972 Tangerine /Go Mango Convertible 383 Stroker, 2004r Automatic

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Ebo, I am ready to install carpet in the next few weeks. My carpet is the performance choice from MAM. I am very interested in the procedure because the rear pieces arent even close to the size needed. Will have to cut the 2 pieces over the fender wells down quite a bit. Put my name down for a cd and let me know how much you need to cover it.
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Interior Install (3/20)
5/24/11 12:03pm

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Rod, I knew you were about set so I was taking lots more just for you. Do not cut anything as they should be pretty close to the original size!

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Interior Install (4/20)
5/24/11 3:11pm

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Pittsburgh, PA - USA

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1979 L-82, 3 spd auto, car was originally Lt. Beige currently painted Sportsman Red, Doeskin leather interior, 103,000 miles......

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Too bad you wont be needing a "Big Rear".....LMAO.

Thats become my favorite interior part name......

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Interior Install (5/20)
5/24/11 3:18pm

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1980 L-48 still in the middle of a frame-off.

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Hey Ebo... send me a cd too and how much you need.

Thanks Dennis B.

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Interior Install (6/20)
6/19/11 9:17pm

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Hey Ebo! Do I have to call your work and tell them to give you some time to get the carpet CD done. Just kidding, I still have lots to do before I am ready to get to that. Just wanted to check in and see how you are doing. Let me know when you need a "little" bit of money to cover your cd costs. Notice I said a "little" amount because this car is breaking me! doh

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Interior Install (7/20)
6/19/11 9:45pm

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Heh Rod, well I may get some time finally. I need to talk to Indy (Dennis) I took some shots in "Raw" on the digital camera and have not figured out how to convert them to be able to put in powerpoint. I'll hopefully start something this week.

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Interior Install (8/20)
6/20/11 2:35am

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Lemon Grove, CA - USA

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1982 C3 Collectors Edition 44000 miles, sat in the sun most of its life, My wife purchased it for me for Father's Day in 2007 from her girlfriend that had it for 19 years. It is on the road again. I'm retired but it is now my daily driver.

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Ebo Being ex Department of Navy staff civilian I have lots of experiance reducing PowerPoints. I also own some software that normally reduces PowerPoint presentations by 80%-90% while still leaving them in PowerPoint format. If you want email me your PowerPoint I will reduce it and send it back. The first trick is put .jpg formated pictures in your PowerPoints. You can use MicroSoft Paint to change the format of most picturs just by opening it in Paint and then SaveAs (select the format you want). Unfortuneately I do not believe Paint will open a RAW picture. I do not have any RAW pictures to try. If you want I will find some free software that will convert the picture format for you.

Interior Install (9/20)
8/3/11 12:50am

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Hey Ebo, any luck yet with the how to do it right cd! I am still at least 3 weeks or more away but i thought I would give you a yell. I know you are probably recovering from the weekend at Ebostock1. Probably planning a better Ebostock2 for next year. Well just yell when you get it completed and need money to cover it!
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Interior Install (10/20)
8/3/11 6:22am

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Indianapolis, IN - USA

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Silver 1974 Convertible - L82 4 speed Low miles (was only 8,900 when I bought it in March 2006) - Now 54K miles. Original owner bought it as an investment for son's college expenses. 2008 Jetstream Blue Convertible

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Al, if you reduce the resolution a bit or compress the pix before adding them to the PP, that might help.

If you have Adobe licences, you could probably also turn your slides into PDFs and then merge all of those into one file.

A few ideas. I'm interested in this once it's done too

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Interior Install (11/20)
8/3/11 8:11am

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Good morning people!

Yes there are still many signs of ebostock still around, mainly food! I do not think I'll have to actually run out of left overs till the weekend! The fridge was over stuffed every time you open the door sumptin fell out! I'm on vacation this week with the sole purpose to arrange and sort the garage to be able to work on red car. I should be done today with the sorting.

Now back on topic, I sent the photos to Norsky (not that he is going to put 100 shots of the install on everyones CD) but he did convert them over, thus part of the delay in the gathering CD.

I need to be able to put them in PowerPoint to add text and arrows and such, I will have it done as soon as I get picts back. I did order 6 of those long needle picks that they used for the install. They are Snap On brand and I ordered them direct. You need these for the install I'll look up the part number.

Oh and just so you know after the show we made a slight detour since it was on the way home and drove through Griffis Air Force Base........That is where "Woodstock II" was held. We watched it on TV and listened to it comming through our open windows!

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Interior Install (12/20)
8/3/11 12:45pm

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I'm interested too - I have a carpet install to do as well. Are those "long needle picks" used to locate mounting holes and such? Part number / picture appreciated - thanks

by the way, I could use a sort of my garage as well, seeing you have all of this time on your hands!

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Interior Install (13/20)
8/3/11 12:56pm

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I have all of the adobe products not good at them all but got a good price while overseas so I jumped on all of them. If needed I can easily put them into a pdf or take a pdf and make it a word documented.

Interior Install (14/20)
8/3/11 2:32pm

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Snap on (blue point)

Part number

Pick, Straight, 9 3/4" (247.7mm)

Stock#: PSLR4-3
PSLR4-3, Pick, Straight, 9 3/4 (247.7mm)

$7.65 each and yes used to find holes and you leave mutiple picks in then remove and have screw ready to go in pick hole. Worked super.

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Interior Install (15/20)
8/3/11 2:42pm

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1982 Black, ZZ4, Hooker Side Pipes, 3.55 Rear, Rebuilt & upgraded 700R4, All new suspension, brakes, & new Charcoal interior.

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You can get similar tools from McMaster, http://www.mcmaster.com/#3842a42/=dgm4g8

for less $.

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Interior Install (16/20)
8/3/11 2:50pm

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Off Topic.......

Almost done sorting, well some stuff will be later. My wifes step dad has alshimers and is in a home, he was a diesel mech and the smartest guy I've ever known. I ended up with most of his tools. I have sold all the bigger stuff and have totes of screw drivers, hand wrenchs and socket sets. The biggest thing is about 20 of those plastic drawer bins loaded with all kinds of stuff. I have to sort thru all that some day, in the mean time they take up a lot of room. I so miss this man, he now plays with wooden baby toys, so hard to see him that way. Him and Sting Ray Jim have a major presense in my garage, last night I tripped over step dads bumper jack, he did that on purpose!

Lor laughed as she knew how much he would have enjoyed seeing me launched across the garage! LOL

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Interior Install (17/20)
8/3/11 2:53pm

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[QUOTE=DaveM]You can get similar tools from McMaster, http://www.mcmaster.com/#3842a42/=dgm4g8

for less $.

Dave[/QUOTE]

Oh great now you tell me! LOL

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Well at least " these ones" match the color of your car Dave.....................

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Interior Install (18/20)
8/8/11 4:17pm

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Hey guys, read these posts as I am also getting close to the carper install, putting the instrument clusters and heat shielding down now. Is it too late to get on the carpet install CD wish list. Let me know how much and how you will distribute. Any chance you will be at Carslisle? Thanks!

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Re: Interior Install (19/20)
9/8/11 11:32am

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Hi, EBO,

can you please send me a copy / power point also?

My carpert came 2 days ago so I will be installing soon along with interior parts.

Thanks,

Joe

Re: Interior Install (20/20)
9/8/11 12:27pm

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Well still have tech problems with the CD so it is not done as of yet.

Hug

But Joe here is a deal of a life time.......Drum Roll please &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

I'm 2 hours away from you....I'll come over and help if you want. Are you a brave soul?

Let me know and we can work out the details.

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