I am thinking about changing the seats on my 65 to white, and am trying to determine what all would need to be changed in order to pull it off. Currently, my interior is all black. I know I would have to change the front and back seat covers and the door panels. But what else? I have seen white headliners, but I have not seen white carpet. Also wonder if I would need to paint anyting like the doors ( inside around the door panel and door jams), or the dash under the cover. I guess the dash pad is another part that could be changed. I would want to pull this off making the least amount of changes necessary to still have it look acceptable. Any thoughts?

 

You pretty much have the right idea. The dash pad doesn't come in white as far as I know, so maybe you should go with a two toned effect. White and red? White and blue? Just suggestions.

 

White interior used a black carpet so you are ok there. I'm pretty sure they used a black dash pad too. The seat covers, the door panels, paint the inside of the door and the dash and you are done unless you want to change the headliner. That could wait until later.

 

roger

 

In the '65 models, the white interiors all came with colored appointments (dash pad, grill, windshield trim, carpet, and seat belts): either black, blue, red, aqua, burgundy, ivy gold, or palomino. There was no white dash pad or carpet on any stock factory interior. If you have decent black appointments, you'll be fine to keep them and paint / change everything else to '65 white: seats, doors, door panels, arm rests, rear quarter covers, dash face, kick panels, console (if any), steering column & wheel, and the A-pillar. Headliner should already be white.