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Just curious what some of you might have in your garage collecting dust...

Working on a 83 Regal (with 84 nose & tail-lights) and it has a dark burnt orange interior. I'm switching over to buckets & console, so a few problems arise.

There are several different ways I can go...

- find any G-body buckets in that color
- have JAX make covers, but they don't have material, would have to find it
- since some vinyl / plastic pieces are burgundy, I could change the color
- change everything to black, and have burnt orange dash & console
- and so on... (and you blue, gray, burgundy guys thought you had it bad) :)

I'm weighing options right now, not sure which way to go.

I really only need the buckets in order to keep the color, it's not bad, upper door panels a little worn.

Wanted to see if some of you might have anything burnt orange laying around before I make a move.
 
I'm confused on the burnt orange color. Is it the dark red or the butt cookie brown? I have some BCBrown stuff from a 83 stashed away. The upper door trims are the standard(not Limited) trim, but if it was me I would recover them. Everything else plastic can be painted with plastic paint to match. I have all of the plastic too. I also have the 2 buckets with cig burns and the matching rear seats and possibly some seat belts. Let me know what you want.
 
turbofish38 said:
I'm confused on the burnt orange color. Is it the dark red or the butt cookie brown?

Neither... not red, not burgundy, not brown. Key word 1983.

Interior is dark burnt orange... very close to burgundy, but it's not burgundy.

The exterior is burnt orange. (light redwood)

That exterior / interior color wasn't available 84 thru 87 as far as I know.
 
What you have is the red interior offered in those years. Over time when exposed to the sunlight it transforms into a more orange shade, the severity of shich depends on the amount of time spent outside...
 
What you have is the red interior offered in those years. Over time when exposed to the sunlight it transforms into a more orange shade, the severity of shich depends on the amount of time spent outside...

Garage kept old lady car with mint reupolstered cloth seats that match carpet, door panels, dash, headliner, and sunvisors?

Anything is possible, but I don't think so.
 
Dammit... now you have me second guessing myself.

LOL

The plastic pieces (kick panels, lower door panels, rear panels) were are darker shade, burgundy like.

I thought that was GM being cheap...

But that doesn't explain the headliner, sunvisors, and seats recovered 10 years ago... garage kept since.

Hmmm... unless they had them recovered in that color to help match the other fading pieces.

That still doesn't explain why JAX and G-BodyParts BOTH acknowledged that color exsists.

Something fishy going on here!
 
Not that it matters, just verified the car is an 82.

Does anyone know for sure if burnt orange was an available interior color option in 82?
 
The gm sales brochures do not have that color option listed for any of the years 78-83 (I have them all) :cool:
 
Okay,burnt orange isn't the correct description. Guessing by what you have told us it has to be dark redwood. Its the only red listed for 1982. Check the interior code on your cowl tag. If there is the number 77 followed by a letter than that is what it is. The shade of red interior was only used in 81 and 82. Back in the early years it was common for Buick to use 2 or 3 different shades of a color on the interiors.
 
Okay,burnt orange isn't the correct description. Guessing by what you have told us it has to be dark redwood. Its the only red listed for 1982.

You're talking interior right? Because this cars exterior is Light Redwood (burnt orange) not Rosewood (pink'ish, purple'ish, red'ish hue).

Check the interior code on your cowl tag. If there is the number 77 followed by a letter than that is what it is. The shade of red interior was only used in 81 and 82. Back in the early years it was common for Buick to use 2 or 3 different shades of a color on the interiors.

I have not bought the car yet, in final stages of negotiations. Will do so if I can get it into my garage.

The problem I have accepting it is the color of the recovered seats, headliner, sunvisors... and how they all match the dash and door panels. I have seen many 78-87 burgundy and red G-body interiors over the last 20 years, and this isn't one of them. I have seen this color before, in person and on the internet. Weird.
 
Here is 2 pictures of a 1982 Regal burgundy interior on eBay...

http://i8.ebayimg.com/03/i/06/b8/ee/1a_12.JPG

http://i6.ebayimg.com/01/i/06/b3/38/e2_12.JPG

Clearly old, clearly weathered, clearly burgundy throughout.

The 1982 Regal I'm looking at looks nothing like that.

If mine was sun-faded burgundy as some here say, some parts of the lower dash and under dash be burgundy, inside corner of glove box, and so on would be burgundy. You would see evidence of discoloration and fade.

That is not the case, it's burnt orange through and through. Weird.
 
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