Terry, just my 'umble opine, but we've seen more nice old cars ruint by lipstick/resale red paint and/or interior.
If you're compelled to see red, don't go any lighter than what Joe Santana shared.
Just because a lotta cowboy/look-at-me types own Packards today doesn't mean you should forget most were owned in the day by confident professionals who hewed to understatement; deep, rich, quiet colors.
The old cars, Packards, Cads, Cords, Hudsons, Buicks, Pierces; anything either side of the Atlantic or Channel you notice are those in soft all but forgotten hues.
Prewar Packard and upper echelon GMobile convertibles had a whipcord option that wore like iron,
m u c h more comfortable on a cold or scorching day, and i've seen Duesenbergs originally fitted with "leatherette" as the young maharajah was of course vegan.
A friend did his '41 Cad conv. in a heavy, quality vinyl he says isn't available these days. You
cannot tell if from leather and it still looks terrific after half a century.
Good article on the history and reality of leather upholstery, of special interest to those of us who are both autoholic and vegan.
As Hagerty's Aaron Robinson points out below, leather was originally used in carriages and automobiles because it was cheap and plentiful. I never cared for a car that smelled like my boyhood first baseman's mitt:
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