I had been driving this car for about 8 years now with no carpets and very poor seats. No door panels or anything else. It had a head liner but was in very poor condition. The original material was still on the back seat , but was not salvageable.

I found some door panels in a wrecking yard from a 68 American but they were white, So I died those black. I had no luck finding the correct material for the seats, so I decided to just go with black vinyl and make up my own pattern. My friend Pauline was great at upholstery, and this suited me just fine , because then only girls had worked on this car! I found a stainless steering wheel out of a 1981 Jeep pick up, and was lucky enough to be able to order a carpet kit from Canadian Mustang. I painted the headliner and the package try satin black, (this really helped with the visibility out the rear view on sunny days! I had saved up all the best chrome trim I had from all the fancy Rouges I had parted out and put it all on my Scrambler. When all was said and done, the car looked spectacular.

The same summer I decided to get the car painted. In plain white it fooled all the kids, nobody new what it was. I had newer AMX rally wheels on the car, glass beaded & repainted and with no beauty rings, It looked very bossy! I finally felt like I had a show car!

All these Pictures were taken oct/96 by an Insurance appraisal rep. You see here in B.C., you can get collector plates depicting it's value as a collector car and cheap insurance, but it severely restricts the use of the car. This was not an option for me. I licensed Russell as a daily driver and after spending so much on this restoration, I had to worry about how much this car was worth to the insurance company, since selling it was never an option, I didn't concern myself with it's value to a collector. My concern was, what if the car got stolen or crashed. What was the insurance going to pay for it. So I hired an ICBC rep to come out appraise the car for this purpose. Because all my slight modifications were done with completely factory parts. I had not compromised the value of it al all. In 1996, and with-out the proper A Scheme paint colors, this car was appraised at $20,000 and would have been more had it been red/white & blue!