I don't see any reason why not, that sounds 100% arbitrary.

 

I say if you wanna do your interior in a certain color, it's your car. I just like to get opinions when I am torn between two or more choices.

 

yes sir, it is arbitrary alright, to think of it, I could die my interior silver, and the left over die could be used on my leather chaps and jacket. That way both me and my car would look equally... breathtaking...


What I am trying to say is that arbitrary and tasteful don't always go in pair, what looks good to one is not always what looks good to others, that's not a problem, problem starts when what looks good to one doesn't look good to 99% of the society.That would be the last post from me on the silver leather subject.
have a drink on me !

 

Hehe, 2 and a half hours ahead of you!

Tasteful, tacky, hideous, is all in the eyes of the beer holder!

Moving on with the topic however, I have wood trim (fake wood?) and a real wood steering wheel. I plan to keep the wheel, however, I'd like to change the trip, around the ashtray, and shifter, ect. That stuff. What do you think of painting that body color? Or maybe carbon fiber?

 

I'm quite happy with the silver leather in my pace car. Oh well.

 

I'm a woman.

Your initial post didn't say anything about tasteful, and I wasn't commenting on whether your opinion was if it was tasteful or not. You said a surface like a door panel should not be painted silver because it was soft and padded, not because it wasn't tasteful. Why would a surface's being soft and padded have any bearing on whether or not it should be silver? That's what I don't get about your comment.

 

I love the pace car interior, I'm seriously thinnking of changing my 79's oyster interior to silver. I note that the interior door panels in a pace car are silver even though they are soft and padded. Apparently GM didn't agree that if a surface is soft and padded it shouldn't be silver.

 

I would say dont mix wood with carbon fiber.
Carbon pieces are related to track/race cars (and rather modern ones)
wood interior is related to grand tourers


grand tourers/GT/gran turismo are luxury, long distance, high speed sports cars (two seaters or 2+2 like Porsche 928)

While you could go with your car either way, race or GT, I would stay away from mixing both...

here is an idea, you have real wood steering wheel? how about making the center console out of veneer? if the steering wheel is real wood you can sand it and re stain it so both are the same color, mahogany gloss for example.

Another related idea, how do you like your ignition key and the long lever behind it? (I'm not to happy with the engineering that went into it) how about moving it to the new center console (that was done factory OEM on some 60ties sports cars) you could have a nice key in there with a "start" button next to it...
power (key switch)
ignition (toggle momentary or push momentary)

you can add electric cooling fan bypass switch there as well if you'll change the fan some day... or electric fuel pump "on"...

not sure if you like it or not, just something that popped into my mind right now...


to think of it, wood and brushed stainless steel was used back in the day so you could go wood steering wheel, wood shift **** and SS center panel if that suits you better

Since you plan on new gauges, the bezel that's covering them in the upper center console could be matched with the ashtray console...

 

Madam, I sincerely apologize, You are absolutely correct! what was I thinking!

 

Yeah, the more I think about it, carbon fiber and a wood wheel would look hideous, I didn't think about that.

Who knows, the wood already matches the wheel, so maybe I will just keep it, who knows.

I do, however, REALLY like the idea of a push start ignition... I shall have to think more on this.

And I really like the idea matching the center console to the gauge surrounds sounds like a great idea. Maybe a brushed aluminum? I have a full engineering shop at work and quite possibly will be able to CNC something in just a few more months.

LOL, smart man!

 

I got some pictures of the interior flaws today. Hopefully I will get them up tomorrow.

 

Thanks Terry. There is a bunch of pictures there I haven't seen. That truely was one of the most well done / tasteful interiors on a C3 I've EVER seen. Really a well done car all around. Shame what happened.