Inside of doors being painted black, gloss or semi?

[timmycharger]

Im heading to the paint supply shop this week and I need to know what to pick up. I will be painting the inside of the doors body color, and the area inside the weatherstripping will be painted black. Im just not sure if it should be glossy or semi gloss.   Should it be the same color as the dash frame and steering column? sort of semigloss? Im just looking for something close to what would have come if my car actually came with black interior. 

[twodko]

I'd go with semi-gloss.

[csx4590]

If you are talking about the roughly 2 inch strip of metal along the bottom of the door panel, mine was gloss red (on a red interior). This is the bottom part of the door that faces in towards the seat. The lower left of this photo at the bottom of the door is what I am talking about...

[bill440rt]

Im heading to the paint supply shop this week and I need to know what to pick up. I will be painting the inside of the doors body color, and the area inside the weatherstripping will be painted black. Im just not sure if it should be glossy or semi gloss.   Should it be the same color as the dash frame and steering column? sort of semigloss? Im just looking for something close to what would have come if my car actually came with black interior. 

The interior side inward of the weatherstripping should match the interior color, and should be gloss. The dash frame, steering column, etc was flatter, more of a semi-gloss/satin finish with a slight texture.
These cars were painted with standard acrylic enamel, so if you go applying a modern urethane based paint to the insides of the doors then yes that may yield an overly glossy look.
I found that a lower line of paint (Omni, Eastwood's paint line, Dupli-Color spray bomb, etc) more closely matched the original look & gloss level without being overly shiny.
Hope that helps. 

[ODZKing]

They are gloss on my 67 as well.

[timmycharger]

Thanks for the feedback guys, much appreciated.

[Mike DC]

Are we talking about what the factory intended, or what they delivered?  



In those days the factory didn't know the meaning of glossy paint.  Even their exterior body paint was orange-peeled & semigloss when the cars were built.  

They may have intended the interior door paint to be full shiny.  But it would never have had the kind of shine you get with a modern hand-painted restoration.

[hemi-hampton]

I over rerstored mine over glossy. LEON.

[Tengun]

I over rerstored mine over glossy. LEON.

This is pretty much what mine look like too.

[timmycharger]

Thanks guys, just got back from the paint supply store, ended up getting a can of SEM gloss black, pretty much real auto paint in a spray bomb. I was going to get some to mix for the spray gun, but for that small of an area, I think Ill be ok with it. Ive used SEM stuff before in the can and Ive had nothing but great luck with it.