The interior of the car was tired and messy. Additionally, the respray meant that the interior colour-scheme needed to be changed to complement the silver outer.

The dashboard

The original dash was a rather faded brown:

Jon knew a local guy who could restore it to good-as-new look for a reasonable price, so that was first on the list. He did a superb job, and you really could mistake it for a new one:

The steering-wheel

The steering-wheel was broken, so this was replaced by one Jon donated from a 3.2 in exchange for the wheel I'd swapped out from my 944. Once my finances recover, I shall probably upgrade to a simpler three-spoke wheel.

The carpets

This were looking rather sorry for themselves, but replacing them turned out to be not as simple as expected.

Initially, we thought a specialist car carpet company would be able to supply them. They listed Porsche on their website, but this turned out to mean 924/944/968 only. They didn't have a template for a 911.

Jon knew a local guy who said he could make replacements using the old ones as a template. But it quickly became clear that removing the old ones in one piece was not going to be easy. Or, indeed, possible.

But with a bit of help from both a couple of excellent Porsche forums, namely the Pelican Parts forum and the TIPEC list, I was able to source a set on ebay. They had red webbing, but this was replaced with black webbing:

The seats

Porsche fitted the same leather Recaro seats to many of its cars. The 911 had the same seats as my previous 968, but with a red trim to match the original paintwork:

This didn't go with the silver paintwork, so I simply swapped them for the 968 seats, which I had left after swapping those for Recaro Pole Positions (which are now in my 944 - I like to keep these things in the family ...):

The electrics

Many competent mechanics are terrible auto-electricians, so it is not unusual to find a host of bodged electrics in an older Porsche. After tracking down a number of electrical gremlins, the auto electrician advised that it would be cheaper in the long-run to rewire the 993 side of the car, so that's what we did. I also replaced the tacky after-market stereo with an original Blaupunkt. Finally, the electrician fitted dedicated circuits for each of my gadgets ...