Goobye Old Man Interior...Hello No Money....

Well this little affair started as a simple scuff and paint the dash, seat cover, headliner, and door panels to clean up the insides of my 47 chevy biz coupe.

Now it has turned into re do everything.... haha

painting the dash pearl white..okk everythings fine.. then we look at the guages brownn and tan.. not gonna match pearl white. so ordered a set of decals and having them remade at kinkos in black and white no big deal... then looked at the ****ty knobs gotta buy new ones... ohhh look at the steering wheel ...how bout a re pop 50 chevy deluxe wheel that will look killer in there... hmmm how bout chrome the garnish mouldings ashtray set up and glove box door !$$$$$$$$$ chrome guy called in the middle of this to give me the price so i figured might as well go all out now...

so heres how an easy job started into the money pit i will be in by the end of this thread.


well here is how i started..scuffed the paint and was hoping the primer wouldnt react with the paint that was on there...of course it did.




well im balls deep now why not pull the dash out



couple of extra holes someone drilled in the past 60 odd years



and a crack from those 60 odd years of service



ready for some primer tomorrow..holes filled and the crack all tiged up





then i started lookin at the gauge housing and saw a shimmer of silver behind a tiny chip of paint low and behold polished aluminum behind that ugly turd brown



well if ya have a 47 chevy then thats a little trick to cl***ing the old girl up a little



well thats to where i am so far... everything for the interior is ordered just gotta wait for it to get here.. interior from ez boy. all the other misc stuff from chevs of the 40s..

 

well made some progress today.. got the speedo and clock tore apart... the insides were painted white but i went with some super reflective rustoleum silver shiny stuff hahaha..painted anything that has a light in it with this



also got the column, e brake handle, vent, and hood knob bracket primered



painted gloss black with 2 coats of clear...






tomorrow the dash gets primered.

 

Lookin' good! Is that special Rust o leum silver or the regular stuff you can buy at Lowes? Funny how every "little" project snowballs.

 

i just picked out the shiniest lid i saw at the home depot haha im like a rac****



go the dash sprayed in highbuild sanding and peral coming tonite or tomorrow

 

I feel your pain.

 

Yep, been there. Will turn out awesome in the end and so worth it. In my opinion the dash is extremely important as it is the one section of the car you as the driver spends the most time looking at. Good luck

 

What kind of fruity drinks are you ordering at Starbucks?

just kiddin man, it's looking awesome. It's amazing how a fresh interior makes a car feel, totally changes it's personality

 

Looks great! That looks like one of those green tea shake things from there. My girl gets them for me all the time, yeah that sounds about right, she gets them for me! They're good!

 

Looks like Grande White Mocha with Whipped cream on top. Delicious!


I ripped my steering column out last night to get chromed. I'm going to need some help with the new gauges being placed in the dash. This is all good inspiration. Thanks Flop!

 

Looks good so far. Its like anything else, buy a new couch and the wife says that now the carpet looks like ****, then the new carpet clashes with the d****s...

Bob

 

grande carmel frapachino to answer the most important question of the day haha


thanks everyone!!!

well the next step i had to get the gauge pod back in one piece so i can paint it because you have to fold the edge over on the back and that wouldnt be fun to do on a freshly painted piece.....

thats to my buddy sal that has most chevy parts i need in stock haha.. borrowed another guage pod off him so i could copy the letters that came off of my gl*** when i cleaned it up.


old with letters .mine is the clear one on the silver lid..



since the letters are painted on the back of the gl*** i taped both piece together lined up the edges then i had an instant template on where the letters go.. then i taped all the edges off so i would get a straight line accross



time to see how steady my hand is..



this is how it turned out sitting in the inlay where it belongs





more progress tomorrow...

 

Lookin' good!

Nice lettering! You must be a pro at playing "Operation".

 

I dig the bright redish color. right on

 

Looking good Tom

I looked and I dont have any of the guages from my old 47 Dash

Sorry

BB

 

I've always found an appliance gloss white is best for instrument cases, taillamp housing etc. to take advantage of all the light. White is, after all, the reflection of the entire spectrum whereas Black is the absorbtion of the spectrum.

 

Nice work so far. Looking forward to seeing the project move along towards completion!

 

I have found white to be a bit brighter as well. Awesome job on the improvements. I understand the snowball effect, 3 months ago I was just going to swap an engine....then, the firewall holes needed plugged and painted and the gas tank needed help and the windshield didn't fit right and so on and so on....I still haven't installed the new engine yet

 

making me wish I still had my 47..

 

i want to see it done ...... side by side . great job man

 

looking good!!

 

looking great!!

 

well got the dash finished up today

04 caddy peral white 2 coats of clear

wetsanded it with 2k then hand rubbed out to get the shine back









with the gauge pod sitting inplace.




for my first time paintin sumthin i dont think it turned out to shabby!!


also ordered up the interior today from ezboy...alliance membership really paid off here saved more then triple of the cost of the membership!!!!

 

Is there anything one shot sign paint cant do?

 

Lovin the pearl white.

 

Looking good Flop. You sound like we did before the Roundup " Oh were just gonna clean up the interior a little, it should only take 2 or 3 days". A dozen or so coats of various mediums later, then some new door panels, now weve got to polish everything, we need some new knobs these old ones look like **** now etc.. etc..so now here we are alot of hours and a couple paychecks in the hole and were still not done yet !!
No wonder people say its a sickness!!

 

Cool!

 

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... Pearl white.... Mmmmmmmmmmmmm I think everything in the world should be pearl white. Just my personal opinion.

 

Very nice. Pearl white is so cool. Gary

 

FLOP...I've had a few done myself, and they are expensive. but i tell you streight-up. brother you'll never regret it. man what a great feeling when you see your maby's new interior. it's even better than new paint. it's the 1 thing you can enjoy every minute...POP.

 

Looking good man! That pearl white dash looks killer!