Seat frame colour

[Gromit]

I have to order some new seat covers for my '65 Dormobile and when I do I'll get the seat frames stripped and re-paint them.
The original colour 'looks' like 50 year old, dirty, white. Was it white, off white, cream ??

I'm not after 100% originality but I'll get a cost for powder coating and I'm sure the available colours will be restricted anyway.


Colin

[Jabbawocky]

HI Grommet

I'm would say it is cream, but all the seats I have seen have been 50 years old.

Cheers Mick

[Gromit]

HI Grommet

I'm would say it is cream, but all the seats I have seen have been 50 years old.

Cheers Mick

Thanks Mick,
I saw a picture somewhere where someone had refurbished the seats and they were very white, cream seems a bit more appropriate.

Colin

[Marque]

I am in the process of doing my frames for 1967 Dormi. Seat frames were cream / white from what remains. PO covered them in black presumably to modernise them. I have repainted (Strip > Bilt Hamber Deoxy C gel, Bilt Hamber Epoxy Mastic > Rustoelum Ivory Bisque). Interesting to note that this leaves a paint finish of a few mm. As the seats move this is then scraped off.

How is that overcome? How can a surface that is physically scrapping other surfaces be prevented from corroding? Grease? Thinner paint surface coating?

Thoughts welcome.
Kindest regards
Mark