thaks for the advice

also I probably should have mentiond that in all of the Herbie movies they painted the interior of the car a flat gray color so the camera lighting wouldn't make a glare durring filming.

Obviously they wern't thinking long term when they did this, so for those of us trying to make an exact replica we have to make due with what we can.

that car in the picture the guy spent 8 years and $40,000 restoring it, and he still had to paint the door panels, lol.

as far as seats go they do sell repro covers with any color under the sun from at least 6 different manufacturs. The problem I'm facing is that my headliner is in perfect origional shape, so I'd hate to tear it out to put a new one in just to have the color I want.

I have heard of the vinyl paints, so that may be a possibility.