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Can anyone tell me what color the original brown interior color was on a 1938 Chevrolet pickup? Does anyone have a sample? These are the last item I need painted. Thanks

For better coverage on your questions you might want to also post in the 1937-42 forum or the Chevy Truck forum.

The 36-38 pickups had a chocolate brown wrinkle finish paint on the dash, windshield header, and door panels. The headliner and kick panels were a slightly lighter shade of brown.

Jim Carter Truck Parts sells a brown wrinkle finish paint, P/N PT134, that is supposed to be for the 36-38 trucks. I haven't used it so I can't say how accurately it matches the original paint.

Mark

Unfortunately Jim Carter no loger supplies this paint nor does Chev of the 40's. I am looking for the paint name or the Dupont number so I can have some made. Thanks

Did you try The Filling Station?
I have seen some rattle cans at Ace Hardware that look pretty close.

Mike

The paint is no longer available from the filling station. I am looking for the correct color code. I plan to powder coat the interior pieces in a wrinkle finish when I figure out the correct color.

Even if the paint was available...it was the worst experience I had in restoring my 1937. I bought from one of the mentioned suppliers, but none could tell me how to mix it, spray it, or bake it. After much research, I discovered that it needed to be a fresh mix from the manufacturer, otherwise the catalyst, or something, became old and ineffective to wrinkle.

I tried most of my interior parts, but could not get a consistent wrinkle, most times the paint didn't wrinkle at all. It needs heat to wrinkle. I created an oven out of heat lamps and a box made out of foil faced insulation board.

The only brown wrinkle I found was for Kennedy? brand mechanics tools boxes, but I couldn't even get a smaller part to wrinkle correctly.

This was absolutely the most frustrating part of the entire restoration, and really the only part I failed at...until I went to the powder coater. I was getting darn close to deadline, and took a chance at the closest sample they had. The sample looked like a large diameter hammertoe and the color not a close as desired. But IT TURNED OUT FABULOUS, and I don't regret the results at all.

It is more of a hammertoe than wrinkle, but very few of us have seen a true wrinkle finish.

Try the link below to see the results
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1a5vtt0j30qm0cj/DSCN3370.JPG

Can someone embed this image into this post? Can't seemed to get it to work on my iPad

I also went crazy trying to get It to wrinkle correctly until I sprayed It and put the part In my greenhouse. The heat was perfect and It came out great. I have also used the black wrinkle paint from Napa and then put on a light coat of the correct brown and that was acceptable, but not perfect.
Richard