Interior colour

[Brisben]

About to retrim my interior, I have a wide range of colour choices, using a marine vinyl.

What colours do you reckon go with the blue beast ?

I have considered,

same shade in blue.(Maybe too much )

Charcoal grey.

Light blue

Black

This is just for door cards, I will be using the same colour for seat sides, bolsters etc and using an ofset colour for the centre seat area, with a different colour piping.

The boys at work in the know reckon three colurs is best..

[DMS_Dan]

I think Black with the same colour exterior blue for the center of the seats and maybe a grey piping

[gavs]

Although I have never actually seen the door cards of a Mk1, as an industrial designer, my input would be as follows:

DON'T do what you see on so many Hot Rods (i.e American Hot Rod) and do a single colour on the doors and interior, break it up a bit. Try and use your feature colour as a small part of the door card, create a detail feature out of it. The problem with the mass market of vehicle design is that we as designers have to design to the masses. While something with a nice 2 tone pallet might look awesome to us and really "pop" the whole design, a suburban housewife with 3 grubby little kids doesn't like it because it shows up their grubby little hand prints (damn kids....Grrrr, but that's another story....).

Look at having a bass colour for your interior, generally a neutral tone (Black, charcoal, grey, white), with a detail colour (in your case, blue) and a highlight (for piping, stitching and seam joins between colour changes). If you can setup your interior in this way, you can't go wrong.....Unless you get the balances of each wrong, then it goes very pear shaped!!

[Jarred]

don't colour code. I think dark dark light inserts works best. imo anyways.