Painting interior trim

[Mike Matlock]

1970 300 convertible. I am replacing door panels purchased from SMS. The armrests in the back seat are separate from the rear door panels. A single piece of molded plastic I presume. They have yellowed somewhat and will not match the new door panels. I expect that unless I can find NOS, not likely, then the next alternative will be to paint the originals to match as closely as I can. I welcome advice on how to do this. What kind of paint?

 

[Zymurgy]

SEM or SEM

3 steps: prep, color, clear. Don't be cheap and leave a step out. Follow their directions and you will be happy. They also carry many marine off whites dyes too If you don't have a local distributor, I would order a color chips for matching

 

[75LandYacht]

If you have a local Upholstry shop, they can dye to match. I had it done with my 75 NYB. If that’s not an option for ya, you can have paint custom mixed. That’s what I did for my NYB. Had a company I found on eBay make (3) rattle cans for me. Bout $60 if I recall. Send them a small swatch of your material and Walla.. If you’d like the company info, I’ll dig it up for ya.

 

[69psf]

Herb's Parts - Mopar Restoration and Performance has trim code matched rattle can interior pain/dye that I've had great success with.

 

[CBODY67]

The "yellowing" is most probably from the aged PEARL tint on the OEM white vinyl. The pearl tint was on all of the Chrysler trim codes up until the change for the 1974 models. It won't come off with cleaners. That's what gives the vinyl and cloth it's sheen, rather than just a normal color (as Ford and GM used), which is missing from the '74+ trim codes.

My '67 CE23 has the white pearl buckets. On one corner, it is dingy. Tried to clean it and it didn't change one iota. Then I realized it was the pearl that had changed and not the white under it.

I suspect that any paint you might find will be just the color itself, sans pearl tint.

I'd always like the way the Chrysler interior seat fabrics looked. When I went in search of some possibilities of new cloth for the '66 CL42, when it was about 7 years old, a trim shop owner said that none of the GM or Ford items would match the OEM Chrysler colors. Which is due to the pearl/metallic tint on the colors which Chrysler used. He put them side-by-side and it was very obvious. I was both surprised and pleased that I now knew why they looked better than similar Ford or GM interiors.

Just some thoughts,
CBODY67

 

[The Goose]

Nice ride. You should post pics of the whole car top down natch!

Anyways I did my door panels in the ‘69 blue w white and the white has held up great. The soft armrests are another story. They’ve shattered and the old tan came thru. No idea why the door panels still look great and the armrests look shabby? This thing hasn’t seen top up in over two years so the interior gets lots & lots of UV.

Here’s to Good luck and success with your project.