{"id":6811,"date":"2016-09-02T00:28:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T07:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2016-09-02T00:32:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T07:32:54","slug":"dash-cover-nardi-classic-steering-wheel-dmax-floor-mats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2016\/09\/dash-cover-nardi-classic-steering-wheel-dmax-floor-mats\/","title":{"rendered":"Dash Cover, Nardi Classic Steering Wheel, and D-Max Floor Mats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since this car had an uncharacteristically clean and uncracked dash, which is uncanny for having spent its life in Texas, I intended on preserving it. I bought a dash cover from Dash Designs in the perforated Sedona Suede material. It went on easily with a couple velcro strips.<\/p>\n

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There wasn’t a sliver of a doubt – the corny, chrome Grip Royal steering wheel had to go. I was luckily able to offload it and at the same time source a Nardi Classic\u00a0from the tried and true Yahoo Auctions Japan. I didn’t want to pay $300 for a brand new one, after all, this isn’t the RX-7. The one I picked up from YAJ was in good condition and had the silver anodized spokes I was looking for. My aim is\u00a0to keep the theme of this car true to its vintage.<\/p>\n

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Installed.\u00a0After removing the unsightly Defi gauges, I had to buy another steering column trim because the original one was riddled with mounting holes.<\/p>\n

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In order to make the horn button work with the quick release hub, I had to get crafty (ghetto) by jamming a bent paper clip into the pocket. This created a grounding contact for the backside of the horn button to the hub.<\/p>\n\n

Next up, I finally threw in the D-Max checkered floor mats, which were one of the very first things I bought for the car along with the D-Max exhaust.<\/p>\n

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The driver side needed a slight trimming to get around the Cusco cage.<\/p>\n

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There are still a few more items to take care of, but the interior is coming together and gathering form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since this car had an uncharacteristically clean and uncracked dash, which is uncanny for having spent its life in Texas, I intended on preserving it. I bought a dash cover from Dash Designs in the perforated Sedona Suede material. It went on easily with a couple velcro strips. There wasn’t a sliver of a doubt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6811"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6815,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6811\/revisions\/6815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}