You could be excused for thinking that it's usually Groundhog Day around here. I could probably post the same pictures of the 319's interior every week and nobody would notice. Except me and Frank, but we're too honest to pull tricks like that.
But seriously, progress is being made. While the main compartment is warming up, I start by stripping a little more of the badly alligatored red paint from the #2 vestibule.
And then it's on to surface prep and painting in the passenger compartment. First, I finished putting white primer on all of the walls. The faded old paint is essentially gone.
And then there was a first coat of the finish tan on the end surfaces. (I'll do the compartment door separately.)
On the right, I have removed the metal frame for the advertising sign, but the original paint will still be underneath for posterity.
I removed one of the corner seat backs to take home and recover, since it had a bad rip. On the back there are two messages in chalk: "Main #1" and "S. E. Pass". The second is a little puzzling: this seat could be at the southeast corner of the car only if it was oriented north-south, but the shop tracks at Wheaton were all east-west, of course. So your guess is as good as mine.
