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Old Mar 3, 2018 | 04:03 PM
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I have a 65 with red interior. I'm recovering my seats with red leather seat covers from Al Knoch. I want to paint the dash, seat backs and other color interior pieces. What paint are people using? I would love to see some pictures if you have them. If you have the paint codes, that would help me get something mixed to spray on.
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Corvette America sells in pints, quarts and aerosol spray cans a dead on match of ready to spray paint/die.
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Corvette America sells in pints, quarts and aerosol spray cans a dead on match of ready to spray paint/die.
I bought two of their spray cans. I didn't like the color. I had some paint codes that were posted some time back but I can't find it now. Thanks
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The factory interior paint codes for red I have for 1965 Corvette are:

PPG Ditzler/Duracryl 71497 for low gloss

PPG Ditzler/Duracryl 71491 for full gloss

These are from old PPG paint books furnished by TCP Global.

No info on Dupont codes from this website. The Chevrolet Service News for 1966 and 1967 shows these same paint numbers for these 66-67 years, and has the Dupont equivalents as 9188-LM (71497) and 4688-LH (71491). Dupont lacquer is Lucite.

Best I can do.

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