Reproduction Parts for 1916-1964 Chevrolet Passenger Cars & 1918-1987 Chevrolet & GMC Trucks


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I am restoring a 1937 Chevy Truck. I am getting ready to have the interior panels powder coated, but the color the suppliers have seems to be to light Also what color should the seats be? (the truck is Brewster Green) Thanks ! Tom


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You can often get accurate samples of factory colors by looking at places that don't weather like the mast jacket bracket where it bolts to the bottom of the dash. That flange often has pristine paint that can be color matched.


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Tom,
The correct original finish for the interior for ALL '36 (low Roof), '37, and '38 Chevy trucks, was a brown wrinkle finish. Powder is available from Jim Carter Truck parts, and perhaps other vendors, such as The Filling Station. The color is accurate, because I had it mixed. It was matched to the back side if a trim strip from my son, Sams, 1938 Chevy 1 ton truck. I did two interiors with this powder while I was in the powder coating business. It looks great. It is a quality product from a nationally known paint and coating supplier.
This was used on every removable part inside the cab and not on any surface that is part of the cab itself such as the seat riser.
Use it on Instrument panel/glove box door, door panels, door trim around glass, trim strips around door, A-pillar coverings, header panel and wiper covers, rear cab panel(s) around back glass. I might have forgotten something, but you get the drift.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. 573 864 6539 Good Luck.
All truck seats were brown. I believe Jim Carter offers a kit.

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Thank you for the information, Mike


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Tom,

I have a 37 1/2 ton and a 38 3/4 ton panel truck, both of which should be finished in the interior as Mike describes, with a brown wrinkle paint. Years ago, Jim Carter sold the paint in quarts--after the paint was put on, you had to apply heat to it to make it wrinkle. The process worked, but it was a difficult one. Apparently, Carter now offers the proper material for powder coating.

If you don't have the equipment or access to do the powder coat, here is another suggestion. In my search for the brown wrinkle paint to finish my 38 cab about 5 years ago, I tried all sorts of things. Eastwood and some others make a black wrinkle paint--I even tried spraying that first, then re-coating with brown--that didn't work. Finally, I found an excellent substitute for the wrinkle paint. Several years ago, Rustoleum came out with a line of paint they call "textured." They have a color called "Autumn Brown" that comes extremely close to the original wrinkle brown color found in 36-38 cabs. It's just a shade lighter/brighter, but extremely close. It sprays on uniformly and it's easy to get nice coverage from the spray can. When the paint dries, it results in a "textured" finish--not quite a "wrinkle," but very close; I was satisfied with the results. For $5 a can, it's hard to go wrong--pick up a can and try it on some scrap metal and see what you think.

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found an original 38 Chevrolet wire harness; question where does the the piece of Romex like wire connect.38ED

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If the harness is an original Chevrolet item, it should have a 14 inch flexible metal conduit on the horn wires, as Gene states in his post. If it is a truck harness, it should have a longer conduit on the tail/stop lamp wires.
The tail lamp conduit might have been discontinued from passenger models by 1938, but was present on them through 1936(ish). It was usually about 28 inches long.
I reproduce these conduits and supply them to The Filling Station, Jim Carter Truck Parts, And Brian Mueller's Classy Chev U.S.A.

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