Here are all of our standard colors ever since we started working with Katzkin. Everything is still hand sewn in house, but I was so impressed with the quality of their leather!! We still offer Spinneybeck for those who have an odd color or the desire to pay 4-5x extra for the interior...
1st page and a half are standard, anything beyond that has a small premium.
Wow, that's an impressive array of colors, Carey.
Lane, I know you're leaning toward Oxblood and/or brown, but for me grey looks awesome against a blue exterior, especially when you'll have some blue visible on the inside: parts of the door, dash, A-pillars, but especially the door sill.
Good luck deciding, with Carey's myriad of interiors it'll be a tough decision.
Lane Anderson posted:I have to admit that I’ve started looking at some darker browns as a possible alternative to oxblood.
Stan was alluding to this in his post above- from a design perspective, when putting colors together, usually when 1 color is quite strong (your car will be an attention grabber from the moment you see it, even from a block or more away!), as is your exterior Oslo blue, what generally works best in the interior is something that, even if it's quite different, is something that's a little 'softer' or more 'neutral'. Putting 2 colors together, both which are screaming for attention, is harder to do. It can be done, but it will be a real hit/miss thing, with the results not known until it's too late. The red interior of the Spyder Chris showed above works because the silver, even with a blue hue, is somewhat softer or 'unassertive'. The same with Gordon Nichol's Speedster- that wow red/wine/burgandy interior of his is surrounded by a more neutral exterior (in this case white).
If you are thinking of a brown interior, something along the lines of what either Alan Merklin or Wingd gave examples of, note that the exterior paint of none of those cars are strong attention grabbing, look at me! colors. Even though they're all gorgeous in their own right, they're somewhat subdued compared to their respective interiors. With a strong interior color in your car there will just be too much going on. Look for something a little softer and it will be stunning.
Hope this helps. Al
I like Autumn. So I suppose a caramel tone is what I’m trying to describe.
DannyP posted:Wow, that's an impressive array of colors, Carey.
Lane, I know you're leaning toward Oxblood and/or brown, but for me grey looks awesome against a blue exterior, especially when you'll have some blue visible on the inside: parts of the door, dash, A-pillars, but especially the door sill.
Good luck deciding, with Carey's myriad of interiors it'll be a tough decision.
I am going with more of a Charcoal gray, but as seen in this pic, that lighter gray just pops out. Kinda like the 50's customs with their white interiors …
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As a "standard" we have like 6 colors we advertise, all close to an original color, but when someone wants custom or outside of the box, this is the palatte
What I found really helped me in choosing my colour is to goto the leather manuf site. The reason is that a palette like the one above does not always clearly tell you what is the root of the colour and it may have hues of a base colour that you won't see until it is too late. Ever paint a wall and you thought it was green and you find some blue in it.
Well the site showed me the root of the colour and hence I found the root of some colours we were considering had roots/tones that we feared would come out.
Check it out .
chines1 posted:Here are all of our standard colors ever since we started working with Katzkin. Everything is still hand sewn in house, but I was so impressed with the quality of their leather!! We still offer Spinneybeck for those who have an odd color or the desire to pay 4-5x extra for the interior...
1st page and a half are standard, anything beyond that has a small premium.
Good of you to offer choices Carey but cat skins seem a little much. 
I like the gray, but I’ve had a couple of DDs with gray interiors and just want something new.
@chines1, when do you need to know the interior color by?
5pm EDT
Just kidding... would be nice to know in the next few weeks.
Gonna be pit crew for a Champ car race team the next couple of days, but should have final decision early next week.
Here is the colour chart I was speaking of https://www.spinneybeck.com/in...colorbook/categories
CLick on the side for a type of leather
VO0957 This is the VOLO in my car.
BTW the sample looks a bit dark here on scrren here is also a pict of my interior.
FYI I have had this in two IM's so far.
It looks good and ages well and won't show deep cracks like the deep red colours
Lane.... Your welcome to do what you want but it may give you some ideas.
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Overwhelming range of choices. Wow!
Beautiful, Ray!!
Thanks Bob, my daughter helped, me to choose the body colour and put together all the colour combination of interior and top colours. We were going for a classic look. Henry loved it. Actually, another IM in England has pretty much the same colour palette. Sure am happy IM has returned to building cars.
IaM-Ray posted:Thanks Bob, my daughter helped, me to choose the body colour and put together all the colour combination of interior and top colours. We were going for a classic look. Henry loved it. Actually, another IM in England has pretty much the same colour palette.
@IaM-Ray pictures please of pride and joy 👍😎👀
A couple more pictures of the sanding in process. Just a few more days and it goes to Assembly.
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Worth repeating:
- I'm not a coupe guy
- I'm not a "C" guy
- I'm not fan of blue
That car somehow cuts through all of that and mashes the cool button.
Good for you, @Lane Anderson, and well done @chines1.
Lane is going to be one happy camper. And he deserves it.
It's gonna be sweet. And I'm gonna drive it, at least once.
DannyP posted:It's gonna be sweet. And I'm gonna drive it, at least once.
You certainly are. Maybe take Michelle for a ride so she can start bugging you to get one. 
Well that would be nice.
All polished up and purty!
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That is a great color Lane
Yeah, I like.
Dude.
ver' nas.
I will note also for the record that French Blue Spyders appear to be a trend.
Beautiful, Lane, just beautiful.
Wow, Lane, that's lovely.
Well I like it... I can see the trend now and it makes me feel quite at home French blue every where... in the M. Hines' shoppe.... bravo ! (french accent of course)
I mentioned the apparent French blue trend to Carey and confirmed it.
Lane - She's coming along nicely! Gonna be a looker.
One minor update - I decided to go with cognac leather with a contrasting stitching. It's very much a saddle brown color that looks good with the paint sample that Carey sent me. Gee this is fun!
I REALLY like this car !
Lane Anderson posted:One minor update - I decided to go with cognac leather with a contrasting stitching. It's very much a saddle brown color that looks good with the paint sample that Carey sent me. Gee this is fun!
That is NOT minor. That is excellent.
Ooooo, that's gonna look yummy, Lane!!!
I love the "C" features - fog light cutouts, twin grills and squared-off hood!
Update from Carey: "Got the front suspension installed and doing the steering rack today. Just opened up a spot on the lift at the end of the day yesterday so we’ll be able to get you up in the air and do cooling and plumbing later this week. I’ll shoot some pics this week."