Re: Any consensus on E body Tan interiors?
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10/20/21 03:13 PM
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I have noticed quite a few variation on the tan interior cars. Lots of variation and mis matched colors.
While it looks pleasing on the eyes to have a uniformly matching interior, some mopars right from the factory had various shades on "matching" interior components, some rather glaring at times, it was probably due to various vendors, bottom of the barrel dye pigments, different texture/base color of components being dyed... host of variables
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Re: Any consensus on E body Tan interiors?
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10/20/21 03:31 PM
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I do not have a Mopar Tan interior, but I have a GM tan interior car. ('79 Trans Am) There is quite the mis-match in the tan pieces on the Trans Am as well - and not because of aging or sun fading. I think that the different materials play a large part in how the color appears. Whether it is a plastic piece, vinyl, cloth, or leather. Some cars have a mix of all of those materials - and thus they all look a little bit different!
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Re: Any consensus on E body Tan interiors?
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10/20/21 03:41 PM
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That is true, How does one then assemble a "factory correct" car? Mismatch or correct the mistake. I mean which is correct in the eyes of the judges? The judges are not the owner nor the driver of the vehicle, do what suits YOU....personally I correct "serious" shade variations, leaving barely noticeable variations, IMHO if it all matches "perfectly" it looks contrived or an amateur's attempt at spray dyeing everything no matter how nice it looks
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Re: Any consensus on E body Tan interiors?
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10/21/21 02:47 PM
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On an original Mopar there are subtle color differences between interior parts to give some contrast. I saw a '69 Roadrunner that the owner had dyed/painted all of the black interior pieces the same gloss and color. Really blah and frankly, unattractive.
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Re: Any consensus on E body Tan interiors?
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10/21/21 04:13 PM
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I have allways get confused on some "white off" interiors being really tan... and backwards. Sure, the pictures on web don't help.
Last edited by NachoRT74; 10/21/21 04:14 PM.
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Re: Any consensus on E body Tan interiors?
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10/22/21 10:17 AM
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My brother recently finished up his 70 Challenger with a green interior, for starters he had the 'bayou green' paint mixed with the codes taken from the 1970 parts catalog, and redid all of his interior metal pieces, dash frame, steering column, etc. as called out on the same page of the catalog. He also had SEM vinyl dye mixed to match the paint and sprayed that on his dash pad, console, door & kick panels, seat backs, rear package tray, etc. IMO the result looks really nice and coherent, would it be totally correct, no, but the carpet, seat covers, headliner still do provide some of the color variations.
I guess in hindsight, mixing up a few similar but different shades of dye for the various soft parts would yield the most authentic result, short of using all NOS parts- which would seem to be almost impossible these days.
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