[pj1234b]

Hello all and thank you for any responses.

I am planning on doing some work on my 66 convertible. I purchase the stang a few years back and now have time to do some restorations on it. One of the eyesores to me is the door panel and correct me if I am wrong the interior quarter panel. Is this a typical process restorers do or just wear and tear of the elements? Parchment spray paint over red vinyl panels is what you are looking at in the photos of my car.
Can this be stripped and repainted or dyed? Should I just get new pieces and who would carry the door parts?
I need some help from the experts/experienced on the best method of tackling this project.

Thanks,
Phil

[66Sprint200]

Originally Posted by pj1234b

Hello all and thank you for any responses.

I am planning on doing some work on my 66 convertible. I purchase the stang a few years back and now have time to do some restorations on it. One of the eyesores to me is the door panel and correct me if I am wrong the interior quarter panel. Is this a typical process restorers do or just wear and tear of the elements? Parchment spray paint over red vinyl panels is what you are looking at in the photos of my car.
Can this be stripped and repainted or dyed? Should I just get new pieces and who would carry the door parts?
I need some help from the experts/experienced on the best method of tackling this project.

Thanks,
Phil

Those 2 panels you are showing aren't vinyl covered. In the pictures where the red spots are, that is sheet metal. Only the actual insert on the door panel is vinyl, and only the ashtray assembly is vinyl covered. Odds are, that is paint chipping from the past 40 years. That red is most likely the factory red oxide primer. Check your doorplate. Do you know if the interior was ever redone? It maybe that your interior was once red.

EDIT: Looking closer at the pictures, it looks like that is the red oxide primer that Ford used. So, that is just 40 past years of wear and tear. Can you give us a whole shot of the pony interior? Are you redoing the whole interior or just the interior paint work?

[Ivy66GT]

Yes, your 2nd picture is a rear quarter panel. The top section of the rear quarter is metal and the bottom is vinyl over plastic. On a coupe they are all metal. The door around the vinyl panel is a similarly lightly textured metal. The paint should be fairly low gloss and the color should match the vinyl. The paint I see does not look like parchment although the vinyl is parchment. Looks to me like someone did a poor job of spraying gloss white paint over a formerly red interior and now its peeling. Yes, you can strip the paint and start over with the correct color, whatever that might be. Too much paint fills up the texture so you probably need to start over from bare metal especially since the white is peeling.

[pj1234b]

Right now I just plan on doing a bit at a time. I did take my trusty metal/plastic detector (AKA magnet) and found out that in fact I am ignorant to the material and it was metal. I just could see texture under the paint and assumed since it matched the texture of something else and not metal. Looks like I might need to do some paint stripping and be carefull not to mess with the texture too much.
Yes the color is slightly off and only really noticable on the quarter panel but has been tolerable since I haven't had time to mess with it and have just been enjoying driving when I can.
Next step might be the carpet or chrome replacement.

[Icerat]

Make sure to use a chemical stripper on the metal panels because sanding will ruin the grain that is there.