Another question about the '76 245 DL that I'm getting ready to make run.

Previous owner of the car smoked, a lot. The car has a very strong smell of cigarettes, even after being away from the previous smoking owner for almost a year now.

I'm in the process of cleaning up everything in the interior and I'd like some suggestions on what I could use to get this smell out. I'm going to be pulling the carpets to clean them up as best I can (although I don't know if I can get the cigarette burns out) as I think that's where most of the smell is coming from.

I looked in the archives, but I didn't really find much info. Most of the suggestions there seemed to cover the smell up, but I want to completely remove it.

Just how strong is the carpet? Would it survive say, a run through the washing machine as cloth seat covers do? I would just get some carpet out of one of the 240s in the junk yard, but red interior 240s seem to be rather rare...

Thanks as always.

Picture of the red interrior:


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