Thanks for the advice. I bought a burl walnut kit but did not install it yet. The car is currently still in its winter storage for lack of time. I will install it asap.

Thanks
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Before you put it on read the post about taking it off, you may think twice.
https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...rior-trim.html

 

I like the kit on mine just fine, and have no reason to pull it off. And yes they have stuff to remove it, so not a big deal. A hair dryer is all that's needed to loosen it, NOT a heat gun on the plastic. then you use the 3M remover with an alcohol wipe down and it's just fine.

 

Thanks for the warning. I have read the entire thread you mentioned and must say that the kit installed would not have been to my liking either.

This is why the "classics" like Burl walnut and the likes are best as while "fashion goes out of style, style never gets out of fashion".

All high end cars have been enhanced by such wood appliques to this day. For this reason I think that a good quality kit, prperly installed with care should last for years and still look good.

Sit in a Maybach, a Benz, a Jaguar, a Rolls, they all have fine wood inside.

I trust 3M to keep it on for years and as stated, if need for removal, 3M again to provide solvent. Body shops surely use these every week for many mouldings.

Le chat

 

I am going to get slammed for this. But why would anyone want to put stickers on their dash panels anyway? If you were replacing the original panels with real material then I could see. But someone here bought a car with the crappy sticker stuff and peeled it off. It was a disgusting mess to remove.

The interior of our cars is perfect the way it is.... in my opinion. If you want to change it, then take the original panels off and put something decent in its place.

 

Whiel I respect your personal taste about what is nice or adequate for a car interior, it seems a relatively large number of persons, including the motor car press of the era, qualified the interior plastics of the Crossfire as "cheap" and not to the overall standard of the car...and of its price tag.

Your reference to plastic for the inserts should take into consideration that the aim is for a glossy look without compromising safety. In fact, more and more, if not the majority of manufacturers, have adopted "simili" as the real wood with 25 coats of varnish ( or modern urethane) gives the same final result for looks and will likely fade, then crack over the years.

Trust my experience as I am currently restoring my second Jaguar 340 ( 1968) and the original burled walnut veneer is a mess. On the other hand, I have a Volvo as a daily car and this company having always been well ahead of most in safety issues, has converted their "wood" capping inserts to simili a number of years ago.

To my taste, plastic for plastic, I still think that synthetic burled plastic walnut looks a lot better than the dull finish silverized original plastic in a Crossfire,as it does in many other fine cars

Le chat.

 

I do have a couple of thumbnails in "interior" in the thread "new interior trim" that show a synthetic carbon fiber and Japanese cherry wood from mav_vs on ebay if anyone out there is interested in what they look like installed.

 

Thanks but I am fine with what I have.

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how can I get to those Brookings. I almost bought the cherry, but then went with the rosewood. I like it just fine