I am in the process of preping my interior for a fresh new paint job.

Currently alot of these pieces are painted black, but are red / maroon underneath. The bezel is black, with red under with wood grain under that... Rather than paint over the top of the previous chiping paint, what can I use to take off the existing coat of paint without damaging the plastics. I tried paint thinner but it cleaned up alot of the grime, but only removes the paint with alot of effort on my part.

Also, I am goin to be laying down some dynomat and dynaomat extreme in the compartement, I was thinking of sanding down the inside of the cab, what kind of grit should I be using on my sander.

I plan on using an anti-rust like por-15 or some stuff duplicolor makes, if I'm going to be lying down the dyno, should I bother throwing paint on as well, I'm guessing just a flat black would be fine.

Any help would be appreciated.

I've heard that oven cleaner will remove previous coatings. I haven't tried it myself but seems like one of the mags said it. Might give that a try.

For my floor board I used a wire brush on my cordless drill to clean up loose paint and remove rust. Some JB weld to fill in a couple of 1/8 rust through holes and then painted it all with POR 15. I did the POR for trying to stop any more rust from forming. Then went with dynomat after that. If you want to see you can look at my site for what I did to the floor. Look in the Interior section for the Elky. www.poltergeist.us

I just got through taking the paint/dye off the kick panels. I used lacquer thinner. It did not soften the part and took off the color pretty quick.

I played with sandblasting mine cause they were beat, it worked great and gave it a cool finish.

I repainted a junkyard 72 SS dash last weekend with SEM color coat paint I picked up at the auto body store. I used SEM vinyl prep that also comes in a spray can. It is water based. First you clean the parts with warm water and dish soap. You let them dry. Then you spray on the SEM vinyl prep. Use a LINT FREE cloth or paper towel (also available at the auto body store) to wipe down the part. Then rinse with water and dry. the color will come off with the SEM vinyl prep. The original SS dash was black over silver. In other words, the dash was plated silver then painted black. Much of the black came off. I was pretty worried but it came out fine after spraying with the SEM color coat. I then used silver laquer and a very fine model airplane brush to detail the letters and trim. My hand is not that steady but I think it will look OK.