Greetings, I am new here and I am pondering a 65 mustang Fastback build and am doing the initial color choices (and every other choice). I have had a 69 coupe and a 67 Fastback with deluxe interior, but my last classic mustang was 20 years ago and I have forgotten most of what I thought I knew.


I hope this is in the right section...

I am looking at pictures of a car that I love but cant afford, so I want to build my own over the next few years. I found a possible donor car that has a 62 code pony interior but no decent parts in the car.
I dont really care for the pony door panels, so I wonder if I would be dumbing down the car by skipping the pony interior all together? Would it require additional changes to the door parts?

Here is what I really like...

(Pic stolen from a current ebay listing, sorry)



Here is the question, the exterior on the car is Caspian Blue, but the door and dash on the car pictured look like a different lighter shade? Is it just me? Did they paint the inside of the door a different color than the outside? If so then where did they transition on the door, at the rubber seal?

Can anyone tell me exactly what door panel color combo that is?

Here is the dash, I like the color but is it Caspian blue or a second paint color?




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That's aqua and white. BTW, the two-tone panel you show is aftermarket, no such panel was ever produced by Ford. TMI makes them.

There was an aqua and white deluxe interior, an excellent choice with that exterior color, although very rare.

 

Ahh, I hear TMI is the go-to for quality interior bits, I will keep that in mind. I thought it looked awful purdy for a factory color.

Any hint on if the dash and door metal is Caspian? It looks lighter to me?

 

Hiya,

kinda funny. my car was original caspian, not it's midnight metallic blue. which is not too far off the caspian. the caspian is a dark blue and the interior is aqua/white like 2+2 says. there interior colors are much brighter than the exterior. there is no reason to have the same inside/outside. I absolutely love mine the way it is. Outside is in signature and inside is like in your picture, just with different door panels. It's a fantastic combination I think



since I took this picture I replaced the steering wheel (like for like), put in an aftermarket vintage style radio (to fix the horrible cut around radio), added rubber to the pedals with trim and the parking brake handle is about to go in *g* and i'm still looking for the trim between dashpad and window ...

this is caspian blue:
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&s...=&oq=&gs_rfai=

 

The aqua interior paint (and dark aqua on the dash pad and carpet) was a different color than the exterior.

 

Cool, thanks guys. So if I paint the dash and other metal & fiberglass/plastic aqua I should end up at my target goal for the interior?

Also, would it be considered "wrong" for me to do standard door panels (Maybe with pony seats) when the door tag clearly shows Pony interior?

 

two options. do whatever you like or stick to what it should be (restore) and make your mind up before you start with anything.

if I am not misunderstood, I'm sure that 2+2 can clarify. there is only one single paint that you use inside for spraying and that goes on all metal parts inside. all other parts with different coloring come painted already (door panels, seat covers, dashpad, carpet)

 

I like those door panels. I don't think it would be dumming it down to not use the pony ones. Most people won't care.

 

So to sum it up, The door panels are TMI and available.

The interior metal parts (and possible the restored fiberglass panels) would be painted /dyed with "Agua" and that is a lighter color than the exterior "Caspian Blue".

So, where is the best place to transition from Caspian blue to the aqua on the door? I would guess that you use a mask right where the weather strip will go?