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
Seat frame colour
Seat frame colour
1956 Series I 86" hardtop
1960 Series II LWB ute (sold)
1965 Series IIa Dormobile
1970 Series IIa GS
1976 Series III SWB with Isuzu 2.4
1981 Series III FFR
1995 Defender Tanami
1960 Series II LWB ute (sold)
1965 Series IIa Dormobile
1970 Series IIa GS
1976 Series III SWB with Isuzu 2.4
1981 Series III FFR
1995 Defender Tanami
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Re: Seat frame colour
HI Grommet
I'm would say it is cream, but all the seats I have seen have been 50 years old.
Cheers Mick
I'm would say it is cream, but all the seats I have seen have been 50 years old.
Cheers Mick
Re: Seat frame colour
Thanks Mick,Jabbawocky wrote:HI Grommet
I'm would say it is cream, but all the seats I have seen have been 50 years old.
Cheers Mick
I saw a picture somewhere where someone had refurbished the seats and they were very white, cream seems a bit more appropriate.
Colin
1956 Series I 86" hardtop
1960 Series II LWB ute (sold)
1965 Series IIa Dormobile
1970 Series IIa GS
1976 Series III SWB with Isuzu 2.4
1981 Series III FFR
1995 Defender Tanami
1960 Series II LWB ute (sold)
1965 Series IIa Dormobile
1970 Series IIa GS
1976 Series III SWB with Isuzu 2.4
1981 Series III FFR
1995 Defender Tanami
Re: Seat frame colour
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
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