Interior

Well I am trying to figure out which color interior to put into my 66 F100. It is a dark metallic green truck and I plan to put in a mohagany steering wheel and bed and try to keep an old vintage look inside if you know what I mean (hard to explain). I am thinking MAYBE a light tan or something but not sure. I love the All American Classic Instrument gauges with the logo of the wings (in a way reminds me of old guages from a plane). Any ideas for a color interior on a color like mine? It's a dark metallic forest green. I think I have pics of the truck in my gallery.
Thanks a lot for any input!

my 1949 Chevy pik-em-up is going a dark forest green & tan out side (not sure how I'm going to run the colors yet but, this doesn't apply here anyway ) and dark and light tans on the inside w/ a little cream thrown in. still drawing it up. " I think it'll look clean " I'm thinking of going with the cream/tan color gages w/ SS trim. I'd like some wood in the cab but not sure yet on that.

Now this is just me but I'd add some pin stripping to the green to draw the outside together with what ever you decide to go with , either some thing tasteful or crazy what ever floats your boat. What I like are the colors on the new Furds (green/tan) not the style but the colors.

I've even thought about just black on black with stainless/chrome fasteners,knobs,screws,... anything I can get shinny. It could be done cheap at home with a few trips to the boneyard ... and cost of odds and ends .

My wife took an old gun I liked and matched colors off the wood on the forearm and stock and painted a den , I don't see why you couldn't do the same at a good upholstery shop with the mohagany steering wheel you love so much.
I've got a buddy that can order dame close ,majority of the time.

JMO TL :cool:

good luck

Somethng along the line of what you are talking about, a light tan or off white (sort of cream) would go good, especially with the wood wheel and green paint.

Don

Well guys thanks for the info and here's an update. This is pretty weird this happened but today in the shop a Cadillac came in with the mohagany wood grain the on the dash and steering wheel in the same stain my wheel and bed will be and it had the very light tan or cream color and looked great. I think that will stand out in the metallic forest green (which is similar to the Ford van colors but mine has some pearl in it that is barely noticable.) I was going to put ghost flames on it but not sure anymore I dont want to over do it. PPG calls a color I was looking at to repaint the truck Ford PA... I didn't have my truck with me at the time but looking in the books I think it was close enough to what I have on it now but I cannot get the exact color since the previous owner did a HORRIBLE custom paint job on it. Custom meaning just a custom color, the rest as far as body work goes sucks! LOL

when you get ready for the interior, contact www.rodinteriors.com, they can make you seat covers in variouse styles ( they discintinued there V8 and Nifty 50 styles and all special order fabric but choices are still good ) and they have templates to fit most any seat directly. I'v been talking with Joel Rusnak, about the interior for my car and altho I had to go with there classic style instead of the V8 which I originally wanted, I can get a compleate interior kit ( minus carpet ) for just over $1,300 in which I will be ordering tomorrow. Joel is very knowlagble.

Thanks for the info Matt! Let me know how their service is when you order and actually get it in. The seats are buckets I found in high school and have NO CLUE what they came out of and not sure how to find out. The frame underneath isn't really even a frame, it's a round bar in a U on the front where your legs just come off and the back has just two little plastic wheels on a little tab on each side and that is it, not like it's a slider track or nothing... I am trying to figure out how to fix it. The interior on these seats are very nice but they are Maroon red and I hate red, plus it will look like christmas tree with a green body, wood in the bed and red inside lol.