can/has it been done?? home made headliner...

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zkx14 said:
Would have been a great gag if you had got a piece of that 'rainbow shag' and laid it on like it was done. Put the pics up and said how happy you were with it...:rofl:
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I think the most I'm probably halfway there with what I have! LOL You know I was just there picking out the material for my back decklid correct? I'll be posting that here in a few, brace yourself....
 
After a few months, a trip to the track, and a couple of car shows the homemade headliner still looks great.
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I say this as there's some recent headliner questions and since this is untested I'd like to keep it updated from time to time.
 
Great job! I'm running into the same thing with mine, I have a full interior -the headliner and I'm not feeling like giving out the 100's of bills blow on something thats not essential.
So now I gotta make my own kinda template....
 
SpaceDemon said:
Great job! I'm running into the same thing with mine, I have a full interior -the headliner and I'm not feeling like giving out the 100's of bills blow on something thats not essential.
So now I gotta make my own kinda template....
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So you don't even have a template?
 
I don't know if I said it in the thread here or not but at one time I was thinking of getting a large piece of paper before I had covered my headliner and made paper templates. About that 40 bucks for paper templates LOL it was a thought...
 
Haha... Funny you should mention that...
Ya, I need to make one OR find one since I pretty much got mine as a roller with parts in boxes stuffed into the trunk. But stuff like this is what I've done for years. Odd how prop making skills overlap so nicely with interior work.
 
SpaceDemon said:
Haha... Funny you should mention that...
Ya, I need to make one OR find one since I pretty much got mine as a roller with parts in boxes stuffed into the trunk. But stuff like this is what I've done for years. Odd how prop making skills overlap so nicely with interior work.
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maybe if there's a member who has their headliner out right now or something even if you could get a copy of 1/2 of it to flip over and get the relief cut lines also. I've had someone do this in a different instance when I needed a shifter bracket for my vertigate. I had someone just toss it on a piece of paper and draw around it and draw where the holes are. I was easily able to reproduce with that.
 
Just took my 1972 Dart hardtop headliner out last week. No tears. So it's in good shape. What info are you looking for?
 
72Dart6pack said:
Just took my 1972 Dart hardtop headliner out last week. No tears. So it's in good shape. What info are you looking for?
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He needs a template or a drawing
, but yours is different then a dart sport or Duster or demon. I only say this cuz his name is space demon so I assume it's a demon with the fold down rear seat?
 
j par said:
Update 2 years later the headliner still looks like the day I put it in...:thumbsup:...
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Two and a half years now and still looks brand new... I always look up there thinking there's going to be some kind of failure.. Nope.. just fine...:thumbsup:...
 
Headliner was $175. Installed from a trim shop that's been in business for 60 yrs and only takes cars they wanna work on. The gentleman that installed my Headliner was 84 yrs old. You would swear he was 70. Where can you find that talent anymore? Cost $500.

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500 dollars to Judy install the headliner ?
Or is that with the price of the headliner included ?

Thanks.
MAPS
 
Which would you guys suggest is more difficult to install - the solid or the cloth style? and, is it beyond the capability of 'enthusiast' to do his or her own? In other words, if j par can do it - - how about the rest of us? :(
 
I called a few local shops here in town and all quoted me around 1000$. After that my car sits without a headliner and a painted black roof.
 
@hwd2 I took it on, I had to give it a try, never had done a headliner before. I purchased the headliner cloth from CI at the time for 70 dollars. I viewed a lot of youtube videos and took A LOT of pictures during my removal and made sure to number the bows and pictures of clip locations.
The windshield and back glass was removed at the time, for bodywork and paint. Which I must admit would make the install much, much easier. But it can be done, shops that specialize in this type of work and do it all the time with the glass in.
Take your time, pull evenly, from front to back and then center to sides, use spring clips let sit overnight and start again. It does not have to be glued all at once.

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I'm not positive but it sure seems like the front section (pic 2) looks fairly snug but, second portion has some looser parts. If so, this would have been incorporated during the stitching together. Some further 'left-right' tensioning should take care of it.
 
My Duster has the fiber board type headliner in it. The black was flaking off and it was dog eared in spots. I took it down, put sound deadening on the roof. I took a softer wire brush to knock off the black that was flaking off then, I went to Hobby Lobby and bought some fake looking black leather material and good spray glue. I layed it out and trimmed it to about 3 inches of over hang. I then glued it down trimming it down as needed to wrap around the edges about an inch. Let it dry then, cut holes for sun visors, mirror, dope...I mean dome light, hanger thingys, and shoulder belts. It looks pretty damn good and has almost the exact grain as the seats. I also think even though I put the sound deadner on the roof that this material also helps with deadning the sound. Best part it took about an hour and, only cost me $26.00. The picture sucks but it does look pretty good.

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The subject just came up again as it does periodically and my update after three and a half years is my headliner looks absolutely perfect like the day I put it in..
 
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