I'm buying an entire new standard red interior for my 68 convertible,dash,assembled front and rear door panels,carpet armrests-everything. What is the best place to buy all this and it all match in color and who should i stay away from. Please anyone and everyone let me know ,i don't have time to buy the wrong stuff or swap out things to get the color to match. Thanks,Brandan

Ditto.. but teal interior. I have looked at Classic Industries (shipping unreasonable) , Auto obsession (better shipping prices), but small operation, and midlife motors (Epay store) (good feedback, but never heard of them)

I know Ames carries the kits too, but their catalog is kinda hard to read and determine what all you get.

On a side note for a red interior, I saw this: http://chattanooga.craigslist.org/pts/2233610475.html
But it's not clear what year, or what car, or if '68 deluxe.

Classic has there 20% deal on now.

"Hurry, our 20% off Sale ends March 7th, 2011 at midnight.
Use code MAD2011 when asked during checkout."

NPD has a good selection of interior parts. Really fast shipping too. I can get stuff from them next day.

http://www.autoobsession.com/
Call and ask for Trevor.

I would second NPD. I had good luck buying the parts for the FD rear seat from them. Ended up saving 25% over Classic's 20% "sale" by the time it was delivered. I was surprised at the time that Ames only carried some of the parts I needed. I went with NPD so I could buy everything in one place.

Thanks everyone, i ordered it all from classic with the 20% off and free shipping i got the whole interior for a decent price.I hope now it all comes in and the red is not five different shades.

I just bought mine today from Al Knock. Free shipping from TX.

Hope they are nice.

I almost purchased from NPD. Like Robert said, NPD was cheaper with their 'regular price' than Classic with their 20% off. But Al was cheaper yet, and free shipping to boot!

Quite the "tight wad" Craig! lol

Who is Al?

http://www.alknochinteriors.com/welcome.htm

A few here have used his parts. I understand them to be top of the line.

Yes, I think I remember that thread and the Knoch product was highly praised.
The corvette seats I saw on the website looks awesome.
Please take shots of your stuff so we can see it.
Your blue interior is going to be awesome!

Craig, are you building another car?...have I missed a month here??

I sure have been distracted...

Its [censored] lucky I am not working right now..packing a 4700 sf house is not easy...also good my teenaged girls have lots of strong guys to do the lifting

Um, I think you lost 4-5 months. I found a local N/M 400 coupe last October for a steal! Look at my signature photobucket under 'coupe'. I'm going to do a RA II clone.

Welcome back to reality, I didn't notice you were gone for a while

I received my red interior today and as i figured the dashpad and front and rear door panels are a dark red and the convertible rear armrest and well covers are a bright red.The carpet is even a brighter red than the carpet on the bottom of the assembled door panels. If anyone has pics of the correct color red interior in a 68 bird convertible and wouldn't mind sending them to me so i can figure out what i need to send back would be a HUGE help. Thanks! firediver103@yahoo.com

smokediver, With the '68 convertible 554 option custom interior, the dash pad is a dark red/ burgundy matching the zero-gloss burgundy upper dash (speaker area). Also on mine the original dash pad, door lock pulls, window cranks, sun visors, floor mats, dash assist handle and maybe a few other things are that same burgundy. See the colors for painted areas at: http://www.tcpglobal.com/aclchip.aspx?image=1968-pontiac-pg02.jpg

It has been 20+ years since I replaced carpet but if I recall, the original may have been somewhat darker than the stuff I put in. You can see some contrast with the door panel carpet in the picture below. I've been considering a second replacement because the current stuff is getting a light orange tint as it fades in the sun.

Jim, that red on red looks awesome!