Interior Color Matching

[Charlie Huntington]

I recently bought a nice 72 Cheyenne Super 4x4. Originally white and med red, now repainted orange and white. Interior is white door panels with wood grain, white headliner, white sunvisors, black and white houndstooth seat, brown steering column, and darker brown steering wheel. Seat belts are black aftermarket. With the black/white combo what color should the seatbelts and steering column be? The paint code is on the glovebox, where is the interior trim code? Thanks in advance for any help!

[sjarrett71]

If I'm not mistaken, all steering columns were black. Also, from the sounds of your other interior pieces your seatbelts should be white. I think with the white/black seat though, the black ones wouldn't look too bad.

[leddzepp]

I have the Parchment (white) interior as well. I am starting to think that black seat belts were used with the blk/wht houndstooth seat cover. My truck is all original, and I just pulled the black seatbelts the other day. There was caked up lithium grease between the brackets and the body, and it looks to me like that was used when assembled at the factory. The date codes also match the production date of the truck. I know there are also parchment seat belts, but I am thinking those were used with the solid parchment (all vinyl) seatcover.

Hopefully, someone else will chime in with their opinion and experience.

[71 super]

Only times column was black was if the truck was black or it was a tilt column, non tilt columns recieved the same color as rest of the interior. Your belts could be as mentioned earlier either black or white this is due to the super interior colors - either blue, parchment, green or saddle houndstooth. everything was coordinated from this. My 72 4x4 super had green hounds tooth bench with black accents (door panels, dash, headliner etc.)

[Charlie Huntington]

Although I've had this vintage Chevy truck for many years, I've got more experience researching the numbers on GTOs. With the GTO a lot of black accents were used on white (parchment) interiors. My guess is that the black dashpad is correct and that the column and steering wheel should also be black. Please keep the answers coming and I'm also still interested in the location of the trim code. Thanks!

[72 Super]

My Black and White Super came with Parchment interior with Houndstooth bench seat. The original seatbelts,dash pad and column are black.

I had a Orange and White Cheyenne with Parchment interior that came with Parchment seatbelts,black dash pad and brown carpet and Brown dash area where the defrost vents are.

Do you have any pictures of your truck?

Ray

[special-K]

The column and wheel would be black only if the interior was black or it had tilt.All tilt columns and wheels were black.Exterior paint color has nothing to do with it.
The brown you refer to is a light tan called Sandlewood which would come with a parchment interior.The dashpad would have come sandlewood,too.No parchment steering wheels,column,or dashpad.Those three pieces are always the same color.The seatbelts would be parchment.Seatbelts always matched seat,door panels,headliner,and adashpad/steering wheel/column except with parchment interior.
The top of dash paint color will match the steering wheel/column.The trim code is on the SPID and build sheet between the seat springs and foam.

[Longhorn Man]

some parchment trucks had black dash pads, some had sandlewood. Look at the top of the dash between the dash pad and windshield to see what color it is. That will tell you what color the pad was originally.
Being that you have a sandlewood column and wheel, I suspect you have the wrong dashpad.