Wow, just realized I haven't updated this in over a month. Here are a few new pics of the Beater. I've instaled new carpeting, painted the dash & upper door panels semi-gloss black, and installed the new front bnch seat. I am going to dye the seat black in the next week or two plus get the back seat recovered. The seat covers I bought turned out to be the wrong ones - they were entirely too small. Oh well, I guess that's the joy of vague ebay descriptions.
I am also planning on respraying the yellow as I am not 100% satisfied with it. I figure once the RR clone is out of my shop and on it's way to Switzerland, I'll sand and shoot the Beater again.