[tarheeltempest]

I'll always be partial to the 63 Tempest since I own two coupes, 1 four door, and two convertibles (all not running). If I were to give on the 63 Tempest exterior sheet metal design, I'd have to recommend using the 1963 Tempest tri-tone burgandy interior. It's clean, classic, and just has that '61 Ventura look. I don't think that the tri-tone interior was offered as a bucket seat option, but I'd like to see a reproduction interior using a set of 63 buckets. The dark burgandy, metallic maroon, and the ivory just is awesome with a black or white paint job. The ivory piping really catches my eye on the seats.

As far as instrument panels are concerned, I still like the Pontiac pods rather than one large sweeping speedometer like the Buick and Olds. The Corvair instrumentation is good too. This has probably been mentioned before, but I wonder if anyone has ever installed a 65 GTO rally dash cluster in a 63? The checkered flag over the speedo in a 65 cluster would go nice with the 63 Lemans dash script with the checkered flag design.