CHARGER UPPER DOOR PAD COLORS

[BEAPARTS]

I have a plan for being able to reproduce all the interior colors for the pads.  Obviously black will be the highest volume sold, so here's the plan, lets say, every customer purchasing a set of black pads also has to purchase another set of one of the other colors to help the other guys with the lower production colors. How's that?

Yea, that'll go over real big. 

The real plan is to match the upper pad colors to the Legendary material on the reproduction interiors.  Legendary produces awesome interiors, all my cars wear it, my fear is, if an interior color is off even 1/2 of a shade one way from original and the pads are 1/2 shade off the other way we could have problems.  A minor shade difference like the 1/2 isn't that big of a deal, however, if you multiply that by 2 then it could be.

I am in no way saying the Legendary interiors are off, it just makes sense to me to match the color to the largest and best supplier of interiors to insure the closest color match possible.

Michael C. Ross - Owner
B/E & A Restoration Parts, Inc.

[dodgecharger-fan]

Matching to what most people are buying makes sense to me..
umm could you maybe do a quick cross check with PUI as well?

I'll take a set in white please.
If you want, send me a set and I'll do anhonest comparison for you. 

[JimShine]

The 1969 saddle upper pads vary a little. Some have a strong gold color while others lean more towards brown. I think your idea of matching up to Legendary panels is a good idea. Most of us end up buying atleast their door panels, and that is the item you really need to match to (and not so much the seats).

[bill440rt]

I know they had several shades of white.
I went thru this with them after they had to replace the front seat covers in my'70. There was permanent marker bleeding thru the white covers from the inside out, this was occurring over time. They replaced them under warranty.
They sent me several swatches of white for me to match the seat covers to, they were noticeably different. And, ALL these variations came right from Legendary! Not sure if that makes any difference with the door panels or what material they are making them from, but hopefully there aren't too many variations.

[Mike DC]

Yeah, the originals were not even consistent. 

And I've got a set of tan-colored orignals that anyone would classify as "great survivors," but when you look at the folded-over edges of the vinyl on the back you can tell they're faded/darkened a fair amount from what they originally were. 



Take a look at what passes for examples of the "original" color, look at Legendary stuff, and look at PUI stuff.  Just try to hit something in the general range of all those items and I think you're fine. 

[Old Moparz]

I have a question for something I was wondering about this morning. What are the chances of "ONE" compnay, such as yourself - B/E & A, supplying "ALL" of the padded interior parts in one color, & offering the entire set as a package? I think it would eliminate the chance of people getting pieces that don't match. I know it would drive me nuts having the padded parts in different shades & that's the reason I am leaning towards a totally black interior.

Example: 
Full set of dash pads, upper, lower, & glove box door.
Arm rest pads, front & rear.
Upper door pads, front & rear.
Door panels, front & rear.

I know a lot of these parts are available, or will be available, but to be able to get the entire set that matches from one source would be cool. 

[694spdRT]

Legendary told me that even their colors vary from one dye lot to the next when I bought my red seat covers. I have no idea how you will ever get a "match" unless everything is purchased at the same time. The question I have is if the vinyl used to make the seat covers is the same type used on the upper door pads?   

[JimShine]

No, its not the same. Its quite a bit thinner. I believe the original seat back material was the same vinyl, but what they come with today is a bit thicker.

[gtx6970]

they didn't match when they were new.

I had an NOS dash pad and a set of NOS armrest pads in blue  all for a 1969  . All still in the oe boxes and the dash pad was a different color from the armrests

[JimShine]

That is a good point too. There were several different colors making up the interior. That would have to be taken into account. But the case still is that the same parts also varied quite a bit. There was no One shade of white, green, blue, or tan used for any one soft part. The best that could be done is to make a shade that goes best with what is on the reproduction market. Also to keep in mind the entire interior should not be one uniform color.

[Old Moparz]

I understand that the parts will all vary slightly in color, but I've had many cars over the years & the parts I'm referring to didn't vary enough to look like they all came from different cars. I'm more interested in having a group of padded, soft trim parts, all made by, or offered by one supplier who would be trustworthy enough to see that they are "the same color". Any slight variation I am concerned about would probably be almost unnoticeable unless you held upper door pads against the dash pads, but who takes their car apart to do that?

Products are usually manufactured in "lots" or "runs" & if they were part of one particular lot or run, they should be extremely close in color. Even roof shingles are made that way with a warning notice on the packages telling you not to mix the lot numbers of the same shingle color on one roof. My thoughts on the NOS parts mentioned are, unless they were all purchased together at the same time when they were new, I'd have to believe that they may have been made at different times & a slight variation in color took place.

If I were to buy all the soft trim for the interior of my car, I'd like to get it all from one place to eliminate the chance of getting too much variation in color.