Painting the interior piece's of the "76"

[76okievette]

I have started painting the interior piece's of my 76. The new ones I purchased, such as the Door panel, Dash pad, pillar post are not all the same shade as each other or as the orginal piece's. So I have started painting them with SEM Felexible Coating. First I wipe the piece's down with a damp cloth of lacqure thinner, it really takes off the dirt and makes the orginal covering soft. When that is dry in I then just spray them with the can of paint. Can anyone see any problems here. All the piece's have come out looking great and the exact same color. I am going to start with the brand new pieces this morning and was wondering if anyone had any comments. Thanks

 

[78SilvAnniv]

I like the fact that you are painting them all so they match. What color are you trying to match? My interior is oyster and I'll have to purchase interior paint from a Corvette vendor catalog to get my correct color.

I made the mistake, years ago, of painting my pillars "white". Well, I quickly found out that white is NOT oyster. :-/

Anyhow, post some pics, maybe before/afters?
Heidi

 

[76okievette]

I did not think of pics I will go take some. The paint I use is call SEM and they have a Oyster color. I get it from the local parts store, the one that supplies all the body shops in town. Thanks for the comments I will get some pics up.

 

[BarryK]

I wouldn't wipe the interior plastic parts down with lacquer thinner. As you mentioned it can make the plasic soft and if you are not careful could damage the part.
You DO need to clean any silicone off the parts or else the paint won't adhere so when I was re-doing the interior parts on my '65 I wiped them down with regulat isoprophl alcohol. This will still remove ant silicone but not damage the plastic parts.
Any metal parts than the lacquer thinner works great.

Be sure to only wipe in one direction only and use a clean part of the rag or towel often or else all you are going to do is spread out the silicone particles instead of removing them.

The SEN is an excellent paint. I used SEM Trim Black for my interior panels.
The SEM paint sprays out nice and dries down great. Once or twice I thought I messed up and went too heavy of a coat and was afraid I was going to get a run or sag in the paint but after it dried it looked perfect.

BTW, when I did my pieces, after cleaning them I roughed them up just a bit with some of the 3M Scotchbrite pads, than used the SEM primer before hitting them with the SEM paint.

 

[76okievette]

Ok some pictures, hope you can see the difference is shade. The Dash Pad is new and unpainted the rest of the parts are newly painted. If you look at the picture with the dash and door you might be able to see they are different shades, the door panels are coming off next to be painted.

Well I was going to post some pics but they are way to big to put here and it takes me a long time to resize them so it will be a while.

 

[76okievette]

Still have not had time to resize the pictures, but I have the interior almost back together, just lack the door panels and it looks great. I really like that SEM paint. I now have to replace the piece that goes on the bar between the T-tops (not sure what its called) the plastic screw like things that hold it in place are strip out so I guess I will have to replace the nut plates, does not look to hard but you never know. I will try and load up the before and after pictures soon. I am going to attemp to remove the steering wheel this week but first I am going to try and get some help finding the post about how do remove the steering wheel on the "76" its different from all other years because of that Nova wheel they put on in 76. Thanks for all your comments.