Evan Frucht
Well-Known Member
I just purchased an original used dash pad for my 1964 fury wagon. It has a couple small cracks on each corner that I plan to fix with a combination of some sort of flexible vinyl repair compound followed by a skim coat of filler putty to finish it off. The majority of the dash pad is in great shape actually and hasn't been repaired before. I also have a steering wheel that is cracked I want to restore and apply the same color too.
The pad is a light brown tan color but I want to change the color to turqouise as that is the color of my car.
The original color of my car is a medium metallic turquoise and it retains the original paint on dash and inside metal trim pieces (which is in nice shape the PO had stored away indoors for years) I plan to leave the interior paint the way it is. I like the "patina" and this is just a driver for me to have fun with not a serious show car.
The outside has been painted over a couple times and there is lots of bad body work and dings that need to be fixed... So I plan to re-spray the exterior of the car, door jams, doors, etc... in a couple months.
One creative choice I'm thinking about making is to shoot the exterior of the car in a single stage urethane that is NOT METALLIC but instead is a solid turquoise color. I already have two gallons of the paint I would use. I simply prefer solid colors over metallics as a personal preference. The car is sort of a survivor and I'm not doing any major modifications to it but it's not exactly 100% original either and I'm not trying to make it that exactly. I know contrasting a metallic interior with solid exterior it's not something you commonly see but I think it will "work" as a color scheme. Anyways....
I have two options I'm trying to decide between. Kind of leaning toward the first one.
Painting the dash pad and steering wheel to match exterior color and using the same catalized single stage urethane I plan to paint the car with.
Has anyone used catalized auto paint on vinyl on plastic interior parts. I'm thinking single stage urethane should have a little flex to it. If I go that route I'd still use the sem vinyl prep and an adhesion promoter.
Or use that flexible paint they sell such as SEM vinyl paint. They have only 1 turquoise color in the marine vinyl paint line. The color coat line doesnt have a turqouise and neither does Herbs. The other problem I see with these is the durability given the fact its solvent based and not catalized? I'm not that convinced of its durability yet even with everyone swearing by it. I've been conditioned to believe catalized coatings are always a significantly better choice. And I've never had good results using rattle can anything that actually gets used. It looks fine right after the repair but always stays soft and therefore gets messed up quickly.
Sorry for the long winded post. Thansk for reading. Any input appreciated
The pad is a light brown tan color but I want to change the color to turqouise as that is the color of my car.
The original color of my car is a medium metallic turquoise and it retains the original paint on dash and inside metal trim pieces (which is in nice shape the PO had stored away indoors for years) I plan to leave the interior paint the way it is. I like the "patina" and this is just a driver for me to have fun with not a serious show car.
The outside has been painted over a couple times and there is lots of bad body work and dings that need to be fixed... So I plan to re-spray the exterior of the car, door jams, doors, etc... in a couple months.
One creative choice I'm thinking about making is to shoot the exterior of the car in a single stage urethane that is NOT METALLIC but instead is a solid turquoise color. I already have two gallons of the paint I would use. I simply prefer solid colors over metallics as a personal preference. The car is sort of a survivor and I'm not doing any major modifications to it but it's not exactly 100% original either and I'm not trying to make it that exactly. I know contrasting a metallic interior with solid exterior it's not something you commonly see but I think it will "work" as a color scheme. Anyways....
I have two options I'm trying to decide between. Kind of leaning toward the first one.
Painting the dash pad and steering wheel to match exterior color and using the same catalized single stage urethane I plan to paint the car with.
Has anyone used catalized auto paint on vinyl on plastic interior parts. I'm thinking single stage urethane should have a little flex to it. If I go that route I'd still use the sem vinyl prep and an adhesion promoter.
Or use that flexible paint they sell such as SEM vinyl paint. They have only 1 turquoise color in the marine vinyl paint line. The color coat line doesnt have a turqouise and neither does Herbs. The other problem I see with these is the durability given the fact its solvent based and not catalized? I'm not that convinced of its durability yet even with everyone swearing by it. I've been conditioned to believe catalized coatings are always a significantly better choice. And I've never had good results using rattle can anything that actually gets used. It looks fine right after the repair but always stays soft and therefore gets messed up quickly.
Sorry for the long winded post. Thansk for reading. Any input appreciated
