Hello, I pulled this out of my 68 a few months ago. It looked good in the car. The PO painted everything black and I am putting everything back to Original color which is nugget gold (6Y) and I read somewhere that I should have brown carpet. This carpet is black but I will keep it if it does happen to be original. And any advice on removing black vinyl paint without destroying the vinyl would be appreciated. I have been told Easy Off oven cleaner, really? 
Not sure on the oven cleaner thing. I know years ago I bought a company truck with painted on lettering, and I called the guy who put the lettering on and he said oven cleaner. It worked, but was scary 
I had some parts in my car that were like that to, and actually found that the SEM vinyl prep took off the black from over the ivy. It softens the vinyl though so you have to be cautious using it over and over again to get multiple coats off. I think either way you may have to respray, but maybe not. That’s what I did after I got off all I could. The SEM vinyl is good stuff, if you can get the color to match. When I got mine I got two cans each with a separate mix date. One was right, one not. I called NPD and asked if they had any around with the same date code that I liked, and they did. I didn’t have good luck having our parts store mix it. They couldn’t even get a positive formula off the test card I made with the SEM stuff I bought at NPD.
Yes I will have to repaint for sure, I tried one door pull with some paint reducer and it took the paint off but I felt it making the vinyl soft like you said. SEM products are great and that’s what I plan on using to repaint the gold. I just don’t want to destroy the vinyl or the plastic.
You were probably told to use the oven cleaner as that is something that a lot of model car builders use to strip old paint off a built model car. There is also a product sold on Amazon to do the same thing, sorry I do not know the name of it. A local model builder gave me some of it to try and it did take most of the paint off the model I had but it took days to get the job done. I do not know how well either of these products would work on vinyl parts but they should do the job if you need to strip any hard plastic parts.
You could also try brake fluid for the vinyl. I have a rubber hand grip for a garden tractor soaking in brake fluid to remove some old paint. I have had it soaking for quite some time and it has not hurt the rubber at all. Which reminds me that I need to get back onto that project.
You could also try just giving the vinyl parts a good cleaning using products like Simply Green, Mean Green, Fantastic, etc. I have cleaned vinyl parts in the past using such products and often the dye placed over the original vinyl would come off as I scrubbed the part.
Randy Goodling
CCOA #95
Might try some isopropyl alcohol…91%. I’ve gotten vinyl paint offf with that and didn’t hurt the vinyl. Try a test spot first though
Well I’ve tried lots of mild cleaners and alcohol. I am afraid that brake fluid might make the vinyl swell.What I found that works is graffiti remover. I wet down the parts then apply a small amount of graffiti remover with a soft brush then rinse with water. I tried it on the back side of the door pull first to make sure then the front. I will post photos later. Thanks for the advice. But does anyone have an idea on my carpet? could it be original? It looks like it to me. Did they ever put black carpet with a nugget gold interior?
The accepted color seems to be dark brown. If a PO changed the interior to black, they certainly would have changed the carpet as well.
I agree, and I think it would even look better. But it sure looks original. Oh well, one more thing left over from my restoration.
I’m not an expert by any means, but Don at WCCC told me when I was researching my 67 interior that they did use more than one color scheme at least with the light ivy interior. If I recall right it may have had to do with if it had standard or déluxe interior (maybe). He told me he had seen it both ways, one with light ivy seats, door panels, kick panels but would have black carpet, dash pad (upper not face pad) and standard seat belts in black. Then the other way with the ivy parts only using dark green dash pad, carpet and green deluxe seat belts.
Don’t know if this applied to other color interiors? I think my car actually had the ivy/black color scheme new, but since I had to do so much to get my interior into shape I opted for the dark green accents just out of my personal preference.
That’s the way i’m leaning, ( going with the brown carpet along with the nugget gold interior). The only thing that makes me hesitate is that old saying when it comes to these cars “it’s only original once”. But my car is not a numbers matching. So I will just make it mine the way I like it. Thanks 