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Your interior looks absolutely amazing.  Where did you buy the parts to retrofit the new style interior into an F model?   I've given serious thought to updating my interior to something similar because it gives the interior a more finished look. 

Best Regards

M20J 205 owner

-Nate

My airplane was in the Dallas area for 26 years in a hangar in pieces.  A local salvage yard knew I was doing the restoration and called me when they got a 1998 Ovation in after a crash.  The plane had 400 hours TT.  They asked me if I wanted any parts,  thus the birth of the M20F/Ovation model that nver made it to production

Everything about the interior has been custom fitted, mostly by me, to fit the 1968 F model.  Fiberglass can be freely and easily remodeled and the Ovation interior parts are fiberglass, not Royalite or plastic (which you can not work with much in the way of modifications).  The interior passenger door panel was made to match the rounded window we placed in the F model door.  Interior parts such as the nose gear wheel-well cover which you can not get any more (nor did I want to copy the original) were made from scratch as a free-hand fiberglass lay-up.   The lower side panel were shortened, and the fiberglass areas made to receive the window pillars were cut out and relocated within the panel.   The window pillar next to the pilot's head, and the corresponding window pillar on the right side are in the proper position as all the Mooneys are essentially the same size and location in the pilot and co-pilot areas.

If you are interested in doing something similar, you can find modern interior parts in the salvage yards.  I have the left and right ceiling panels left over from my rebuild (as I bought them before I got my hands on the 1998 Ovation).  I would be willing to sell them if you would like to move in that direction.

John Breda