I just wanted to share some photo's of what a Volvo 770 looks like after a complete, well almost complete interior makeover. First off let me tell you a little about the truck we are talking about here. This is a 2000 Volvo 770 with 904k miles and a Detroit 60 series with an Eaton 10 Speed Autoshift Transmission. I purchased the Truck to pull my 40ft fifth wheel Toyhauler after going through an 03 Ford F350 and a 04 Ford F350. Found out the one ton pickups were under powered and way underbraked and wanted to step up to a real pulling rig. I owned a 2000 Kenworth T2000 before this but wanted the Workstation that the Volvo offered and also the quieter cab and better ride than the KW. So I sold the KW and started searching for a Volvo 770. Well ended up buying one off of Ebay for $19k. I knew going into this that it was gonna need some work so I had a little extra money set aside to do a few things on it that I wanted done. After flying out to pick up the truck I drove it home and decided immediately I was going to redo the interior cause the previous driver was a serious smoke and didn't take to good of care of the interior of the truck. Here are a few photo's of what the interior looked like when I bought the truck:


Notice the stains on the cloth on the walls in this picture. Disgusting:


Ok, Now you should have a feel of how gross and nasty the inside of this truck was. So I decided the best way to get rid of the smoke smell was tearing down the whole inside of the truck and cleaning it with hospital grade cleaner and then reupholstering everything and repainting all the plastic, and cabinets. Here are a few photo's that show how far I tore it down:

Well you can see I took it all the way down to the bare walls and floor. I spent hours upon hours wahing the inside down, used an ozone machine every night for 2 weeks and sterilized the heck out of it.
Now that all the cleaning was done it was time to have the upholstery redone. I have 3 children so I wanted to put in vinyl upholstery as apposed to cloth for a few reasons. First cloth absorbs odors more than vinyl will and second vinyl cleans WAY better than cloth for spills etc. So while the upholster was doing his work I had all the cabinets out and repainted all of them from Grey to Black. They turned out awesome and look sharp in the truck I think. I also took out the workstation table and had the top refinished into a nicer finish that would match the interior better. I also replaced the Steering wheel and Seats. I bought Atlas Elite 80's with Ultra Leather. They are the same seats I had in my KW and I have never found a more comfortable seat. I then decided to also carpet instead of just rubber flooring. It adds some extra sound deadning to the truck and looks better also.
Here is a link to all the photo's of the interior. I will post a few up just to give you an idea of what it looks like.
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The X's you see in the walls are where the stereo speakers will go. Haven't gotten around to that yet.

Well there is a sneak peak of what it looks like. Hope you enjoy.

I have a tad bit of jealousy over those volvo's. That table seems like it would make a world of difference.

Very impressed!
Love the color!
Now your "new" truck smells like plastic, new car smell.

Very Nice!

Does the table come down and the seats make a bed? I'm cornfused on that one.

Looks real nice! I too like the colors.

Quit Trucking And Get Into Refinishing You Got The Talent...............nice Job

You are ambitious to say the least

nice job ,was it driveable?how many miles ?

NICE!!!!

is that an auto trans or what? i see what looks to be an automatic shifter but i also see a clutch