Matching original interior color with SEM

[Airborne]

Well I stripped all the old black crud off my original interior parts and revealed what the real colors are supposed to be for the 726 interior. I can't find a match for my dash in off the shelf SEM Color Coat. Camel is real close to the seat color but not perfect.
So I'm headed to SEM in Rockhill, SC next week. I just spoke with Steve Lowman and I'm taking my dash and seats down so they can mix up an exact match. If anyone is interested in pics or the formula they come up with just let me know.

 

[Gary S]

Don't worry about an exact match. Other than black, the interior colors were always a little off color between different parts.

Just look at any new car today. the vinyl is slightly different from the hard plastic, and the hard plastic is a little different shade from the cloth.

If the car manufacturers can't put together a perfect match when they build everything new, you can't expect to do better yourself.

 

[flowjoe]

Don't worry about an exact match. Other than black, the interior colors were always a little off color between different parts.

Just look at any new car today. the vinyl is slightly different from the hard plastic, and the hard plastic is a little different shade from the cloth.

If the car manufacturers can't put together a perfect match when they build everything new, you can't expect to do better yourself.

^+1

 

[flowjoe]

Well I stripped all the old black crud off my original interior parts and revealed what the real colors are supposed to be for the 726 interior. I can't find a match for my dash in off the shelf SEM Color Coat. Camel is real close to the seat color but not perfect.
So I'm headed to SEM in Rockhill, SC next week. I just spoke with Steve Lowman and I'm taking my dash and seats down so they can mix up an exact match. If anyone is interested in pics or the formula they come up with just let me know.

I don't know if you are going to be in their neck of the woods or are making a special trip but I do know that if you send it in they charge a premium for special mixes/color matches like that. I've always had very good luck using my local auto paint shop (the one I trust and use for everything else) to mix/color match my SEM. Did it with a '69 Camaro red interior, a '73 Type LT neutral interior and a '69 Firebird parchment interior...very good results and didn't cost much (if any) extra for the service...plus we could adjust colors on the fly as I had all of the bits and pieces there.

 

[Airborne]

I'm only about 2 hours away from SEM. I was told as long as I bring the part and the color code info they will wave the fee for mixing the special color. I couldn't find anybody close to me willing to mix the dye. So I figured I would drive to the source.

Just to clarify a bit. I am not trying to make all the colors match each other in the car. I am trying to match the original colors on the original parts now that the black dye has been stripped off and the original colors are showing through. The kid that had this car didn't dig saddle interior so he dyed everything black including the carpet.

 

[1970camaronut]

good luck Airborne on getting that exact match. Keep it original