Scott's sweet Ranchero is sporting some vintage style, yet modern sized wheels, a straight, clean body, and a new interior.  The stereo had already been upgraded, but it consisted of a headunit that Scott didn't care for, some speakers in flimsy aftermarket kick panels, and some 6x9's in boxes screwed to the back wall.

The rear wall of the interior was previously just sheet metal, painted but otherwise bare, and Scott was interested in knocking down some of the road and exhaust noise in the interior to make it less fatiguing to drive.  We attacked this rear wall with a solid layer of dampening mat from the top of the wall to the floor under the rear edge of the carpet, meeting up with the jute padding that the upholstery shop had installed under the carpet.  This reduces noise dramatically and even reduces heat from entering the interior through this wall.

This is what the wall looked like after we cut and glued down some black carpet over the dampening mat, also under the rear edge of the existing carpet.  At the top of the photo you can see the bottom edge of the custom speaker box that we built to house a pair of 6x9's with some air volume to allow them to truly play full range. (The small premade 6x9 boxes are actually too small!)

 And here's a good picture outside in the daylight, showing the finished and carpeted box we built that's attached to the rear wall, and the area we carpeted below it.  Scott's rear speakers were fine, so we reused them.  The sound these produce with proper air volume is fantastic, 'far better than the tiny premade 6x9 boxes which prevent speakers from playing all but upper midrange and highs.  I (Rod) did the dampening mat and some wiring work, Carl built and carpeted the 6x9 box.

The door is a much better speaker location than a flimsy, shallow and loose-fitting kick panel.  We modified the door panels and doors (we wouldn't do this on a really rare car!) and mounted Hertz DSK130 component speakers, which clear the window crank, avoiding the dreaded "knuckle-buster" situation.  These speakers sound great!

Here's a close-up of the door speakers.  The tweeter is flush mounted, the wiring properly routed into the interior, and the midwoofer has a solid clean mount.  Tony did great work on these doors.

This picture shows the dash with the modern Kenwood KDCX794 indash unit, AM/FM/CD with XM radio added and with an Ipod direct cable routed to the glovebox.  This truck rocks!

I couldn't resist including a picture showing this super clean powerplant.  This truck is a very nice machine indeed!

Here's a great front 3/4 shot of Scott's Ranchero out in front of our store.

And I couldn't resist including this one last picture I took in front of our store the day Scott came to pick this baby up.  Thank you for the business Scott, and we're glad you're digging this sweet machine even more now with nice, full range rockin' tunes!  buddy!