I don't think i have any interior pieces left in the original color. When i got my car it was all gone and the seats are dyed red. I had to buy a new dash (shell) also.
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Black it is!
That being said, not all blacks are made equally.
Which reminds me of this... Lol
Hah, lol no i plan on staying original. It's too low mileage to be messed up. Only took me 6 years to find everything i needed since nothing is made at all!
Maybe it'll be best to recolor all the hard parts. With any of the original panels you do have why not clean up the inside/back panel to ensure you have at least a good 3"x3" spot for them to scan. I know PPG does cover alot of their lines with thier scan tool but not sure if they have SEM added at this time. FYI, if I would of really would of looked at how hard it's been for me to find dark maple parts over the past 20+ years I have been really looking my interior would of went black out of making it easier to redo it all.
Funny but true. My '81 Monte will be black again & my '14 Silverado is black but neither is the same color. Then I have maybe three or four other cans of black & they are all different shades due to gloss levels. Then there's all the spray bombs...
This shouldnt be a hard thing to do. In '79 GM had 2 different shades of blue for Pontiac interiors. Light blue and dark blue. From what youre describing you most likely have the light. Post a photo of the inside. You can give a place the paint code and they can mix the color. Instead of touching up pieces do all of them. It will freshen up the whole interior and everything will match.
That was going to be my to do anyway. It really isn't a hard thing to do I just have a very hard time to decide. I'm indecisive. 🤣 A interior photo won't help none of the interior is in the car minus Dash and seats. I wasn't going to touch up anyway I was planning to do whole interior since I have to buy a new headliner and sun visors anyway just hard to find that stuff in light blue.
CrammerGram69,
Would this be the light blue that your interior is? This is in my 79 Monte Carlo.
Would this be the light blue that your interior is? This is in my 79 Monte Carlo.
Thank You, To date I'm the 3rd care taker with the mileage at 16,000 since new. Same car in my avitar.
Reason I ask on the color is I pulled the entire interior to add rear speakers and remove the plastic bag that contained heat barrier under the passenger side foot well. The rear package tray needed to be resprayed,so I had the back of the front foot well kick panel and the bottom side of the ash tray scanned with a spectrophotometer at the local auto paint supply store .
This was the result: Paint formula code 735147K which is also a 1987 Jaguar (CF 01 EUR) color.
They mixed it in Axalta (Dupont) Chromabase with the vinyl additives. Color is dead on to the rear sail panels.
If this is the blue you are looking for at least you have a color formula number.
Very interesting. The rear speaker tray was missing from my car, So i bought another car which is the '78 i am parting out surprisingly the one in it is very intact. Otherwise, i was gonna have to buy a malibu style from dixie restoration... since they don't make Pontiac LeMans/Grand Am Style. Thank you for the info and Numbers.
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