I'm planning my second-to-last step of restoring my car, restoring my door panels. I've found front reproduction panels and what might be reproduction panels for the rear, but I can't get pictures of them to know for certain. I can only get them in some other color and dye them to the color I need, and I'll have to install the carpet in the panel, too, so should I just refurbish my old panels instead? They're faded and need to be washed and re-dyed and put on new backing boards since they got wet and warped. The biggest problem I face is that the plastic stripes need to be vacuum metalized. Are they removable? Should I paint them?

Or should I pay a professional to restore the old ones? Can anyone recommend a company that does this?

 

Are you trying to restore the door panels on your 67 Cutlass? If so, there are probably aftermarket suppliers that make the door panel.

FWIW, I had an interior shop redo the door panels on my 71 98. He did an ok job but in hindsight I think I could have done a better job. I plan on restoring the door panels in my f250. They are molded plastic though while the door panels in my 71 98 are carpet affixed to vinyl covered panelboard.

 

Legendary interiors or PUI both sell interior parts for your car.
https://www.legendaryautointeriors.c...ileCatalog.pdf
http://www.puiinteriors.com/

 

No one repops the entire panel. You will have to re-use the metal top rail, and all of your trim pieces. I recently finished an entire interior from Legendary. The door panels go back together fairly easily, but take good measurements before taking your old ones apart. The new panels do not line up perfectly with the old ones based on the registration marks (marks used to line up the panel and metal top rail).

 

Legendary only lists holiday coupes and convertibles for that year in their catalog, and I can't find any actual images for PUI's products to know what I'm buying. I guess I'll try contacting them when I'm ready to buy.

And like I said, since I have to dye them and put carpet that matches my new carpet in anyways, I could just dye and re-carpet my old ones. They're not torn or anything. Their backing boards are just warped from water damage and they're dirty and faded.

 

Mine were thrashed and I also bought a whole interior from legendary. A friend of mine bought his stuff from PUI, and in my opinion the legendary stuff is better. Fit perfectly. They also sent me color and fabric samples to make sure it was what I wanted. My original door and side panels were two tone and they made them to match.

 

Sounds nice, but Legendary don't sell panels for four-door Cutlasses.

 

Sorry, missed that yours is a sedan. A lot of upholstery shops can duplicate your stock panels.

 

You wouldn't happen to know any that can restore both vinyl and vacuum-metalized plastic, would you? I've found companies that can do one or the other, but not both.

 

User rroth01, Ron Roth, specializes in 66/67 dashes. Send him a pm great guy who is a true artist with these dashes. The vinyl dash pad surrounds and glove box door are repopped.
Others carry this as well, here's a dash pad and glove box door kit from OPGI:
https://www.opgi.com/cutlass/CT2637/

 

Need both services for my door panels. The vertical strips here are vacuum-metalized plastic.

 

 

Already contacted them and they say they don't restore that kind of panel.