Removing Carpets and Trim from a 1978 MGB

I have roughly 6 months to get this MGB repainted.  I have spent the winter in the garage stripping the car down, cleaning parts, and bagging them in my store room.  As I have been pulling the parts off I have created a list of parts that need to be ordered or sourced from somewhere.  I am just about at the point where I can get this car off to the shop for metal work. That will be a major milestone in this restoration so time to get to it.

Out come those carpets.  They are in pretty decent shape so I will be just cleaning them up and reinstalling them.

First out come the seats.

Once the seats are out, then need to remove the centre console and the carpets can come out.

Floors have some minor surface rust but nothing major.  No holes in the floorpan.

There we go, no more carpets, no more trim, no more windscreen.  Looks like its about ready to head for paint.

Stripping the doors

Next up in the repainting process was to strip the doors.  This was a fair bit of work, the window actuators needed to come out along with the glass, then the 'smoker' windows and the glass channels.  I was going to leave the doors on the MG so we could ensure they fit properly but they would come off in order to do the paint.

Door cranks and armrests came off.  Note the interior trim is Autumn leaf brown. I have decided to go with an all black interior so I will be selling this trim on Kijiji.  After the armrests, door latches and the cranks are off the trim can be removed.

This plastic was not original, I had replaced the original when I did the trim kit in the 90s.

Door latches, actuators and glass were removed.  I followed the procedure in my Haynes manual which gave very clear instructions and process for doing this.  By the time I was done the door was completely stripped. On to the other side!