Moving on to the interior. I have the seat covers and door panels. Looking to paint the seat plastics and the kick panels and the top of the rear sidepanel cover that encloses the rams for the top. Sounds like SEM is the way to go for paint anyone know for sure which color is closest? I had heard Ivory was pretty close, any other suggestions? Anything specific I should look at to prep the plastic? Thanks Kevin
Just so you don't do unnecessary work, the kick panels were black even on cars with pearl interiors. So you can leave them black just like the dash and carpet. My dad changed the color of his interior to pearl recently. He found something that was close enough to suit him. He has a bench seat so he didn't have to do any seat backs, but he did have to change the color of his arm rests bases. I'll speak to him and find out what he used.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/OER-PP825B-...s_Automotive_Tools&hash=item4d1899f86e&vxp=mt very close match to new legendary interior in pearl white . also sold by the parts place. there is a paint supplier in new jersey (legendary interiors will give you contact) that sells exact match to legendarys pearl white in pints, quart, gallon for spay gun.
Ivory is the correct color paint noted in the assembly manual but why guess at the paint color from a source that may be off? Just because it says ivory it may not be 1970 GM ivory. You can get it mixed and put in spray cans based off the original formula. APS/Tower paints can mix it in spray cans by the original mix. The correct color for 1970 Ivory is 8819(PPG) which is semi gloss. You want to make sure it is interior Lacquer. It goes on really thin. If you use some generic paint it will fish-eye and look like crap. I have seen many seats parts painted other ways and the paint always peels. The seat backs and parts as well as kick panels are polypropelene plastic and they require an adhesion promoter. SEM(39863) and Bulldog both make good clear spray cans of adhesion promoter. Get the plastic super clean with simple green and scrub it multiple times and rinse and dry before painting. Put on two coats of the clear promoter and wait 10 minutes then paint. It is OK if the promoter is tacky. It will take a few coats of ivory to cover black. Metal parts and hard ABS plastic require no primer. I have painted at least a half dozen seat sets and many other parts using this method with no failures. This is the GM service bulletin method. That should tell you something. Make sure there is no other type of paint on the parts already or this may also fail. If you call APS/Tower just verify that the 8819 number is correct Ivory. The chart I looked it up on was a little fuzzy. APS Tower # 800-779-6520. Two cans I would bet will do the parts but I would get 3 or 4 in case. You can paint the door arm rests with this as well also using the primer.
Thanks for all the help. I am taking an adult ed auto body class with many of the guys from our car club. Hoping to get the interior together and many of the odds and ends sorted out.
youll be fine with the OER PP825B in a spray can its lacquer. like i said it matches legendarys interiors pearl white for 70 buick GS and also matches the Williams seat backs in pearl white for 70 buick GS that i bought so id say its correct (williams seat backs are the best repro available) i dont believe SEM makes anything thats correct there pearl has a silver tint. the buick pearl has a gold tint.
