darklordftt

My carpeting on my '81 ripped when I was installing my 5-spd manual tranny and I need to replace it. The car is silver with a medium red interior. I don't mind the red interior, but I was thinking about changing all of the carpeting to black. The front of the dash is red, but the top of it is black, and the door mats and seats are red also.

I know this is totally opinion based, but I would like some thoughts on the color combo. Should I leave the door mats red or change them to balck also if I do the black carpeting? The seats are staying red though... to expensive to change.

thanks

DVNTST8

I have a red interior as well. Was thinking the same thing, change the carpeting to black, so it isn't so...overwhelmingy red.

78Vette-SA

Maybe someone could photoshop the colors in mind and reverse them so you can see what it would look like!

Jims79

black & red look very good together, go for it. I wish I did my black interior w/two tone Black/Red seats...

Alan 71

I think it's a pretty nifty idea.
Regards,
Alan

htt4548

I have done that on my wifes Corvette.
Check it out here:http://www.fvn.no/amcar/wife/wife.html
I will also change the door panels to black, as well as the steering wheel.

Best regards
Hans Tore Tangerud
http://www.fvn.no/amcar/

Rolling Thunder

I have all red interior purchased for my '71 including carpet. Was sitting out in the garage with my girlfriend about a month ago and mentioned I wish I had ordered black carpet instead of red. Think the red interior will really pop on the black carpet and won't stain as easily. Couple of weeks later was my birthday and UPS shows up with black carpet. Great girlfriend... just wish she'd been around when I was still in the talking stage of the ZZ502 swap. Oh, that's right..... I was still married then.

darklordftt

thanks for all of the feedback everyone, i'm sold on doing it.

I have 1 question, how did you only get the carpet black on the door, like in this pic
http://www.fvn.no/amcar/wife/bilder/40.jpg

I thought it was all one piece... custom job?

78Vette-SA

Very... very... very... NICE!

TPI BOY

CJ 77

You got mu vote

htt4548

I did cut out the red carpet and glued the black on.
This is only a temporary thing. New black door panels are coming soon.

darklordftt

Please post pics of the black door mats once they are on, I would really like to see that.

79 vette head

my car was a red on red and it was just too much red. i was going to do a black and doeskin combo interior. but then i thought red ext black and doeskin int. too many colors so i went doeskin

htt4548

Hello again

I have some updates for you
Today I installed a new black steering wheel.

I always update the site when I have upgrades.
Stay tuned.
http://www.fvn.no/amcar/wife/wife.html
Latest pictures at bottom of page.
Direct link to one pick here:
http://www.fvn.no/amcar/wife/bilder/102.jpg

Best regards
Hans Tore
http://www.fvn.no/amcar/

darklordftt

I was on ecklers site today because I had to order metal replacement fastners\inserts for the thin part of the arm rest where it connects to the door, and I was checking out the black steering wheel also. Looks very nice.

82Vettrin

I took the subtle approach and only had the seats changed.

but in my '69 Camaro, (was all-red also), I did seats and carpet as well.
to me, looks much better

AllC34Me

I like the black and red combination and say go for it.
Make sure to post some pics when you do it and best of success.
77Sleeper

fauxrs2

Back when the interior was a bit beat, but it should give you an idea

IrishJoker

Here is what I have done with my Gray/Titanium 81 Vette:









As you can see the interior is 2-tone, the carpet is red, but the floor mats and cargo mat in the rear are Black. I have the floor matts in the front with the embroidered C3 emblem and I keep them covered with clear plastic matts most of the time.