This week I’ve been working on recovering the sail panels and headliner on the Camaro. I had purchased fabric and glue weeks ago, but just made a realization. I bought the wrong color.
I’ve already cut the fabric, and I’ve already placed it on my sail panels. So there’s $50 down the drain.
The interior of this car is technically called “Medium Dark Grey.” Finding it however is not an easy task. The material I bought is called “Dark Grey/Charcoal” and per the image on Amazon and the review that stated it matched perfectly to a camaro with “Medium Dark Grey” interior, I was sold.
Images can be deceptive however. It’s actually a lot darker than this image shows.
Here is an image of one of my sail panels covered. I told myself it would lighten up.
Here’s the original headliner. Notice the dark grey area in the middle. That’s what I’m going for. To me, they looked very similar.
So where do I go from here? A part of me says to just stick with it. The perfectionist and person who wants to make this as accurate as possible says no.
So I’ve just ordered more fabric. Listed as “Light Grey” but with a online swatch that looks identical to what it should be.
I don’t look forward to taking the fabric off of those sail panels, but it must be done. I was really looking forward to enjoying the car this summer. That goal keeps becoming further and further away it seems.