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Re: [Spridgets] Interior question

To: Andrew Payne <andrewpayne@intrex.net>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Interior question
From: Kathryn Bales <kgb@frontiernet.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:41:39 -0800
Marhyde. It comes in a spray can, numerous colors, is relatively 
inexpensive, works good, and is available at most major parts stores.

Kate


Andrew Payne wrote:
> I am planning out my "sympathetic fixer-up'in" of my '76.  I recently got a
> set of seats from a fellow Spridgeteer for a good price and good early
> morning drive with my wife.  Upon returning to the shop I realized that my
> interior is probably autumn leaf, not the harvest gold of my replacement
> seats.  Weren't the seventies great?  Since I will take my 4 seats apart and
> end up with 2 anyway, I will probably have to skin the seats.  Has anyone
> tried a cheap method of dyeing the vinyl in our cars to have a uniform
> black?  Black would match the carpet, and I assume would be the easiest to
> get all materials to a similar hue.  Most of my interior panels are already
> faded, stained, dusted with several colors of overspray, so no great loss.
>
>  
>
> I will put forth a few things for the group to consider.
>
>             1)   Any dye must hold up to the sweaty backside in nice clothes
> test.
>
>             2)   In light of the current economy, I need to keep it pretty
> cheap.
>
>             3)   I have two cats, but WILL NOT skin them for the cause.
>
>             4)   I don't currently own guns, nor do I think they would
> really help this problem.  Might make me feel better to shoot the old seats,
> but wouldn't really help.
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