Well I really like diamonds in Vinyl, but these fat luckys seats with the squares remind me of an old Lincoln and no one other then me is running squares. LOL
okiesignguy, you might be getting some strong opinions, but that would be due to everybody liking your coupe.
Well with the heavy chop, the stance etc this is what I'd do with that car... It really screams of a later era than the 50's thankfully you like diamonds which in my head I see in a diamond pleated pattern that You'd notice in a groovy van and not a 50's car. So that being said keeping the seats and painting the car charcoal/grey etc this is what id do... Interior: black vinyl/ leather. Don't get it to fancy looking or it'll look like you spent more money on the interior than the rest of the car. Door panels do a solid panel for about the top 5 or so inches and diamonds under that that are taller than wide. They continue into the kick panels and whatever side panels you have. Dash and garnish moldings are black but chrome the dash rail. That'll break it up a little bit and feels appropriate to this 60's street cruiser we are forming in our head. Shit even just Nickle plate it. Carpet is black what ever ya got. The seats I'd do in the black leather stuff with a more square diamond pattern insert in the center. By more square I'm meaning less tall diamond than the door panels. Do a square shaped insert in the seat bottom with black piping around it and the back do an insert from all the way down until about your head rest and then stop it. I fuuuuuuuckking hate Black and Tan interiors. Late model Chevy suv's have it and it makes me want to gag. I'd dye it, shit I'd spray paint it or drive it only at night if I had to before leaving it tan. But I understand not wanting to take it back out or spend more than you've got to. Ok so the rest of the car. Ditch the front fenders or fit them tighter and paint them black like the guys in Aus. Get yourself some white fender well headers for an early nova and then Tuck the rest of the exhaust under the car, keep some steelies on the back ~ I'll pretend they aren't full of spare tire looking holes if you do the same, can't see them when it's moving any ways lol. But run a skinny five spoke up front like a cragar SS or whatever swings you the right way. And then drive it like a teenager which id guess you do haha. I think that car has a funny stance and some kinda odd but not wrong proportions that would make it a cool bruiser. As pretty as a dark, Amber, woody leather would would look. With contrasting stitching If you put that interior, with a metallic grey paint job on that car it will look.... Geez how do I say this. Like some one bought a snotty hot rod and tried to turn it into a street rod. In my head it screams billet on a budget.
I like it yellow. I have owned 3 yellow cars, two had black guts and looked cool, one had tan (vette) and looked like ass IMHO. Black guts go with every color and keep that 60's vibe you got going on. I think the opposing stich thing may be tomorrows billet, so don't go crazy with it. Less is more was good advice someone said earlier. Hey man, what's the matter with yellow and black?
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