front cab interior
Billy's front cab is beautiful, and though small, is perfectly formed. It looked like it needed just a deep clean and re-fresh, but were the cab mats hiding anything worrying?
The dashboard is all curves and old-fashioned switches, the door and window handles in their original, wonderful design. Driving Billy is a truly hands-on experience - no modern automatic controls - everything is manual.
The seats are positioned sufficiently far back to give enough leg room to drive with comfort. And while they were dulled by ingrained dirt and wear, and with a few wounds to the vinyl, with a lot of work I was able to clean up the seats and retain them for many more years of driving.
TAKING A CLOSER LOOK
The door cards were bowed and needed refurbishing, and the headliner was beyond repair, so this was replaced. I decided to replace the cab mats with new Morris Minor Blue ones, and to re-spray the body of the dashboard to match the camper exterior. The only other changes needed were a new driver glove compartment liner and new gear stick gaitor.
AND IT WAS GOOD NEWS
Taking up the cab mats we found no rust to worry about. So I cleaned and treated the floor - ready for it to be sprayed. I painted the seat runners, gear stick, and handbrake and pedal arms in dark blue. And needing to refurbish the door cards had given me the opportunity to come up with an idea for a new design for them. Along with the new, Morris Minor Blue floor mats and original red seats, the cab interior was now a celebration of Billy's British heritage!
