Minimalist interiors, please post pics.
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Minimalist interiors, please post pics.
Hey MTers, need your help.
If I do keep the Miata when I get home, I'll want to do some sort of minimalist (dare I say Retro?) interior. I've seen a few pics scattered on here, but I doubt any amount of searching would turn them up.
Can you post Miata interiors, specifically those modified to remove the center console and fill the gap where it was? I remember a beige one and some others with a single vertical bar where the CC used to be.
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If I do keep the Miata when I get home, I'll want to do some sort of minimalist (dare I say Retro?) interior. I've seen a few pics scattered on here, but I doubt any amount of searching would turn them up.
Can you post Miata interiors, specifically those modified to remove the center console and fill the gap where it was? I remember a beige one and some others with a single vertical bar where the CC used to be.
TIA
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Before I stripped my interior, my plans was to buy ebay carpet (which doesn't have any holes) and leave the center console out. I was going to tuck it into the rubber shift boot, leaving plain carpet with no holes on the transmission tunnel. Seemed like a great idea and I've still always wondered what it would look like, no one has seemed to do it yet though.
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It's the ultimate interior IMO. What I wish I could do to mine. I think this is the one you are referring to.
Anybody have an idea who it belongs to? It was on M.net when I saw it first. Simply beautiful.
I had a go at the minimalist interior once and my version sucked. Chopped up my consoles and tried to make it a short console, then tried to cover my tunnel with diamond stitched black vinyl. I'll just say the Miata either needs a full interior, or a fully stripped interior like above, to look correct. Anything else in between ends up looking broken. At least that is how I see it.
Anybody have an idea who it belongs to? It was on M.net when I saw it first. Simply beautiful.
I had a go at the minimalist interior once and my version sucked. Chopped up my consoles and tried to make it a short console, then tried to cover my tunnel with diamond stitched black vinyl. I'll just say the Miata either needs a full interior, or a fully stripped interior like above, to look correct. Anything else in between ends up looking broken. At least that is how I see it.
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If I end up doing half of the **** I have planned for my car, I will eventually have a chance to strip the interior fully and do something along these lines. When my car isn't STILL my daily driver. I've been "looking" for another daily driver for like 2 years now, and can't afford a decent one. I just wish I had a spare 90-93 dash laying around to do something like that with. Stripped with a 94+ dash doesn't have the same effect since it doesn't have that bar running all the way across to make a good cut off point like that one does. I guess I could find one if the day ever comes. I'd probably do some red truck bed liner on the floor for traction, completely gut the doors, and go a bit farther than that one. It would ideally also have a cage, not just door bars. So maybe more like a standard stripped NA, just cleaner, and with a little "niceness" modification.
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That's no chassis brace, it's just replacing the stock brace, we all have one, his is just pretty.
Koto, I meant the different center console. Are you referring to a roll cage bar? I'm confused as to what this vertical bar is.
NA6C-guy, I don't know why my stripped dash wouldn't work on any DD, beyond the absence of a radio. If you have an ipod and hide an amp somewhere, that's not a problem. The heater controls won't have pretty levers, but they still work fine.
Koto, I meant the different center console. Are you referring to a roll cage bar? I'm confused as to what this vertical bar is.
NA6C-guy, I don't know why my stripped dash wouldn't work on any DD, beyond the absence of a radio. If you have an ipod and hide an amp somewhere, that's not a problem. The heater controls won't have pretty levers, but they still work fine.
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Not saying it wouldn't, just aesthetically I much prefer that style dash without a console, over a 94+ dash with a built in center console, with no way of chopping it off without leaving a weird hole and bulge.
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NA6C got it, that's one of two cars in particular I was after a pic of. The other is a beige interior with no visible bracing under the dash, and what appears to be two cupholders IVO where the radio used to be.
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It's the ultimate interior IMO. What I wish I could do to mine. I think this is the one you are referring to.
Anybody have an idea who it belongs to? It was on M.net when I saw it first. Simply beautiful.
I had a go at the minimalist interior once and my version sucked. Chopped up my consoles and tried to make it a short console, then tried to cover my tunnel with diamond stitched black vinyl. I'll just say the Miata either needs a full interior, or a fully stripped interior like above, to look correct. Anything else in between ends up looking broken. At least that is how I see it.
Anybody have an idea who it belongs to? It was on M.net when I saw it first. Simply beautiful.
I had a go at the minimalist interior once and my version sucked. Chopped up my consoles and tried to make it a short console, then tried to cover my tunnel with diamond stitched black vinyl. I'll just say the Miata either needs a full interior, or a fully stripped interior like above, to look correct. Anything else in between ends up looking broken. At least that is how I see it.
The support bar seems pretty simple as well. That being said, everythings simple when you have the time and equipment.
-Zach
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Look up Slutz on CR, he's got a nicely stripped interior.
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I love that interior. If I could find some smurf blue paint in a can I'd do that. The foot wells are especially ugly under the carpet. I painted mine black, but I'm hesitant to paint the entire interior black since it'll absorb so much heat.
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I like yours Thasac. That might end up being the route I go, just a 94 dash instead, since that one looks easy enough to achieve. Nothing to extreme, but still looks good. Balance between stripped, but enough stuff left to not look like a full out stripped race car.