Plain truth is it's yours and you can, will, and should do what ever it is you choose in the end.

As stated with a later model, non-high end car I think if you stay with available color combos from that model year you can't go too wrong.
If you are wrestling with it just changing the interior color only to black, and saving the original panels won't hurt the value at all IMO
You could always add a cool factory color stripe of your choice.


My car is a 340 4spd with matching #'s. If it weren't it would be triple black, but I'm going back red . It will look awesome but I love the triple black cars