My next big project is to do the interior on my 51 Chevy. I am not sure what color I want to do it in though. I was thinking brown, because that is the color it is now. But I have had this car 3 different colors since I bought it 5 years ago and I have no idea what the final color will be since I keep changing my mind. So my other idea was a black interior since that will go with almost any exterior color, except brown. Or maybe black interiors in brown cars look great. I need opinions on this as I have no idea what to chose. Thanks Here is the car:
dark brown and white tuck-n-roll with black piping! ALL tuck-n-roll door cards, seats, kick panels, firewall, package tray EVERYTHING!!!!
I see that car and i think a cream color seats and door panels with some brown accents here and there to bring the color of the car inside.
white leather tuck and roll with pegan gold metal flake inserts and a gold metal flake steering wheel unless you use the stock steering wheel. im puerto rican sorry ... than you can do some white,black, gold flake pinstipe out side ..it will be diffrent and look sweet
Cream. It goes with EVERYTHING. Altho I'm partial to black, and the oxblood sounds nice...........but in your case go cream. OH and don't go leather. Leather doesn't come in COLORS, so its a PAINT that will crack and flake off.
Yah, I heart white......but a nice cream would be SO elegant. Yah I said the word ELEGANT....but sometimes you just can't beat CL***.
Ya white is pretty cool. The wife thinks its boring though. She says that I should decide on a body color and do the interior accordingly. But honestly i change my mind on color every 6 months or so. Its nice to be able to repaint the car whenever I like. I dont want the interior to dictate what colors I paint it.
Either, but with a darker interior I'd go with grey. Grey is actually a "trendy" colour right now, at least in design. Especially decor design. That said, maybe you just really like the colour grey. We each have our own thing.
I completely agree with your wife. If you do plan on painting the car then that should be done first, then interior. Not only for color choice BUT the easy of painting a car with no interior. Interiors aren't cheap and I'm going to ***ume you're only going to do this once. Do it right the first time and the interior will last you a good long time.
The only brown I ever liked was a Chevrolet color from 1956 and 1957. It's a metallic brown called Sierra Gold. But I would only go with that if the exterior was the same with possibly some of the factory cream accents.
Go dark brown almost black with some lighter brown inserts with a pattern like the material used in tri fives. Or all black with piping that is a brown shade somewhere between the two colors of the exterior. I think the exterior colors are perfect, don't repaint it, and who would of ever thought VW overiders would make great grill teeth?
I'm going to suggest black. It is true that white goes with almost anything and can look great but I've had a car with an all white interior and I'll never do it again. It takes way too much work to keep it clean if it is a driver. I ended up cleaning it a couple of times a week and for me that is too often. Black goes with most colors, is totally traditional and is easy to keep looking good.
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