Interior Colors

[72ZDave]

I have my seat covers in and am in the process of cleaning the vinyl and door panels. I ordered my seat covers a couple years ago and just now getting to work on the car. The box has White (which I have) but also lists bone and parchment or something different than the bright white. I plan to try and make them all match, but my question is did the 240 originally have same colored seat, door panel, and vinyl or did they use one color for the door panels and vinyl and slightly different colors for the seats?

[Zup]

Carl Beck's website--- the Z Car Home Page ---lists WHITE for the 72 and earlier model years in the US and Canada.

BEIGE was offered in 73 and the listing shows an asterisk for the Canadian interior colors with the notation that "Beige was just off white".

I have no personal experience with white interior colors, but would hazard the opinion that they were all of the same color/shade.

Jim D.

"Zup"

[72ZDave]

Thanks Zup! Good to see another AR guy here! When I get mine done, we'll have to go for a spin!

[Montezuma]

Parchment is a 73 color best I can tell from research of owning a 73 blue with 0ff-white/Parchment interior. 72 and older had just plain white interiors. I am also told that in 73 the regulations changed to require that the vinyl be fire retarted thus making the white more off-white in nature. This is what I am told but it could all be just legend. All and all I know I order off-white stuff from Les at Classic Datsun and it matches my interior very will minus the sun damage and dirt over time.

[siteunseen]

Mine is all the same shade of white.

Edited March 24, 2014 by siteunseen

[Bonzi Lon]

My blue 73 has the off white, faded & dirty over the years, was refreshed with SEM Vinyl Dye. Hope to see you both at the Branson Z-Fest at the end of May & the first part of June.

Bonzi Lon

[72ZDave]

Thanks siteunseen for the pic, that helps!!

Bonzi Lon, I went tot the Z-Fest a number of years ago in Branson and had forgotten about it. I'll do my best to get up there this year!