I'm freshening up the interior on my unrestored 73 challenger. The interior is original but tired; the car was heavily smoked in over the years and the white interior shows it!
I have a new headliner ready to install, and cleaned up all of the steel headliner edge mouldings from around the windshield header, door openings, and rear window.
After lots of scrubbing the mouldings are now clean but have the odd scratch, yellowing, etc so I would like to paint them so they will look better up against my new head liner.
Being a white 73 interior, I am wondering what colour and gloss to paint the mouldings.
Would a rattle can semi gloss white be good? I'm trying to avoid having to track down specialty paint that will take me a lot of time to source.
Can anyone help me out with suggestions for painting metal white mouldings from the inside of a 73challenger?
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I have no paint recommendations. I used SEM prep soap though and had good results. I recommend doing a thorough cleaning and then doing it again. You dont want to have to paint these things twice and if they turn out like crap, prepping a second time is going to really stink.
I used SEM plastic promoter prior to paint...
https://www.amazon.com/SEM-39863-Plastic-Adhesion-Promoter/dp/B007VTSRZ8
I use Herb's interior paint :twothumbsup:
Thanks for the inputs.
I'm curious with my interior coded as white (not pearl white) when new would the mouldings have been bright white, or off white, or bone white, etc?
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bone white is a good description also a flat colour never glossy. :alan2cents:
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Here is the stuff that I used for most of my interior pieces . . .
https://www.oreillyauto.com/detail/b/dupli-color-3391/paint---body-repair-16614/spray-paints-25279/f5504e6fe716/dupli-color-flat-black-vinyl-and-fabric-paint/hvp106/4268137?q=dupli-color+vinyl+spray+paint&pos=1
"vinyl and fabric" and you used it on plastic and steel ? The results look fantastic but does it have good adhesion ? :dunno:
Quote from: anlauto on May 20, 2019, 09:58:51 AM
"vinyl and fabric" and you used it on plastic and steel ? The results look fantastic but does it have good adhesion ? :dunno:
I had the exact same concerns so I ended up testing it on a couple of scrap pieces first. I can scratch any piece with my fingernail and it does not leave a mark nor will the black paint come off . . . of course all of the metal pieces were media blasted to bare metal, primed and then painted. I even ended up spraying my dash pad.
Nice job!
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Good to hear, I like when there's another available product that works and is available just about anywhere. I'm always weary of trying new products.