Again, yesterday...
I finished cleaning and vacuuming-out the "new" '88 Camaro and the '97 Z-24... Both cars had sat for a
long time before and during the winter, and were filthy -I couldn't put anyone in the Camaro because of the junk that had accumulated in the car over the last couple of years, and the Z was just gross (both cars got mice in them over the winter
). The Z is no stranger to severe grodiness though; when I bought that poor little guy, he was literally packed floor-to-window with fast-food bags, papers, ketchup packets, just trash. I was GOING to swap in the interior from my other '97 Z-24, which was black/red inside with the coppery orange paint, which would have fit my red turbo Z-24 better than the light grey in it originally, but that car was wrecked and sold by another family-member, so there goes that option.
The carpet will have to go sooner or later, there is not much hope for it. On the other hand, the Yellow Indy was actually worse when I bought it, and the carpet was salvageable there, so I may be wrong about the Z-24 needing a new rug. I also re-glued the door side-molding on the Camaro, replaced the wiper blades, and washed her down outside too (wash only, no wax -the clear-coat is flaking off the car very badly, and I want as much of it to leave on its' own as possible so I don't have to evict it prior to a hopefully up-coming repaint).
Weba, I tend to agree with you (not just because you are my Beretta hero, but also because I think you are right) about year-to-year changes mostly being for the worse. I do have to say though that the newer brakes do seem to be heavier-duty, at least from the spindle/caliper standpoint. I'm a little confused about your statement regarding the rotors getting smaller -aren't they all the same diameter through the whole production run? Or do you mean they got thinner in later years? I know they are different part-numbers, my GTU is now 1/2-and-1/2 new-style and old-style front brakes, they seem to stop equally well (or equally poorly, truth be told
).
However, I actually like the older-style dash better, probably because it was so much different than anything else back then, and my first Beretta was a '90 (gen-1 dash). I prefer the '87 door-panels too, they were cleaner, even more modern-looking than the later ones. Too bad they didn't retain that style at least a little longer.
At what point did they replace the outside door-mirrors with plastic instead of metal housings? That was a devolution too.