The paint worked great. It was difficult to get the blue masking tape to stick to the black rubber rear glass gasket, and the side window gaskets, so I had to be careful while spraying. I removed the sun visors and the cover for the front interior light. I taped around the front windshield upper wood and rear view mirror, and the hand rails in the "ceiling," as well as the rear interior light. The chrome trim on those was being difficult to remove, so rather than fight with it, and risk damaging the pieces, or slipping and tearing the headliner, I just masked them off. I left the sunroof closed, and painted that panel as-is, in the roof. I did remove the rear seat, and the new carpet mats because I knew I'd be doing a lot of climbing around in there.

It looks very much like a normal headliner now. It was very bad before with staining.

My headliner is also low, just rearward of the sunroof opening. I'm guess that bow was probably "tied off" to the rear frame of the sunroof, and that fabric has long since failed. There would be no way to safely get the headliner fabric off the body, without tearing it, in order to access and repair this issue, so for now, I'll leave it alone. If/when I decide to disassemble the entire car for paint, I'll completely replace the headliner.

Attached is a better photo of the carpet up close, and the car, bagged for headliner painting.

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