Part 8: Posh Accommodations - New Valiant Interior

With the carpeting installed, the trim items like the kick panels and the shifter boot from Year One finished it off. Since we needed gauges, we found these recently-released pieces from Splitfire. We thought a cluster of gauges mounted under the dash would be the best solution to our limited space.

The original door panels in the Valiant were a style that Legendary didn't have in its inventory. They were able to duplicate our old ones, however, and now they're stocked up for future orders.

What's a car without tunes? This Pioneer Super Tuner radio has been handed down from project to project over the years and was again given the nod.

For speakers, we pulled out the Crutchfield catalog and chose these Pioneer units. If you have audio needs, a call to Crutchfield could be the answer.

The speakers were mounted under the package tray, and the wires run along the inside of the driver side to the radio.

The Legendary-supplied headliner was installed using techniques described in a previous issue by Steve Dulcich. Guess what - to our surprise, it worked.

Here it is--the finished product. The seatbelts would have been expensive to reproduce with the correct webbing and buckles.

Year One has a universal set that closely mimics the originals, and since concours correctness is not what this project is about, they work just as well.