Need advice on new delima

[blascrw]

Ok gang....

Here is my delima...

My home A/C went out over the weekend...so now there goes like 2500 of my "mustang" money...

Now my car is at the shop getting the floor pans and exhaust put in...money there...

Now I have not done the rearend very rusty but not leaking or "roaring", I have no interior...no paint... and no disc brakes...

Suspension was done in 92 and engine then also...sat since...


What should I put priority to?

I was thinking the interior...

I can always drive it without the paint done...

any real disadvantage to doing the interior first?

OR

Should I do exterior put back in the old seats and hae it nicer outside???

Would this be better as far as painting goes...jambs etc?

Give me your opinions...

I need to drive this regularly as my truck has 230k miles and is about to give up the ghost as it is loosing oil nearly as fast as I add it...

Ron

 

[mustang70]

I personally prefer a nice interior as opposed to a nice paint job. The paint doesn't keep you comfortable when you're driving. However, if you go ahead and get the paint done, then you can put all the weatherstripping in and not worry about having to pull it out later to do the paint. That means less whistles as you go down the road.

 

[Luminox]

I'm in the process of doing paint first and interior a close second. The reason being for me is from experience it's less expensive in the long run. 66 Mustang interior kits are a couple hundred dollars depending on what you want done. I'm actually having my headliner done right after the paint for the simple fact that the windows are out and it's easier to handle that way. Now if you don't need a headliner you are ahead of the game. From my experience the clean up following a paint job is crazy. My brothers Chevelle, Blazer x 2, Mustang, and F350 were all the same...Overspray, Dust, Compound, and pretty much anything else related to painting gets EVERYWHERE. There is nothing like installing a brand new carpet kit and interior into a car and getting it back pretty much destroyed. My brothers Chevelle's carpet was so messed up we are just going to redo it because nothing can get all the overspray off. We spent a day or 2 putting his interior in and more than a week getting everything cleaned after paint, that's time that could have been spent elsewhere. I guess it all depends on what you are looking for. I myself don't need to drive my car as a daily driver so I opted for looks over comfort.