OK folks, tried my little experiment- now on to plan B....
Don't know if its the type of vinyl ( I have remarked to my brother on previous occasions how it seems to be like rubber !) or whether numerous years of separation from the card has made the material shrink but heating and stretching has had no effect and I couldn't get the material to come even close to following the contours of the armrest  recess. Plan B consists of reusing the original I stripped off, making some cosmetic repairs and respraying with black vinyl paint. Did a dry refit and a much more snug fit which should bond nicely to the refurbished cards.....Will know in a day or so.  Len

love to see the process Len, i`ve always had trouble with deep recesses like that

Kevin Tetz did a series of videos, a lot of them, in one (don't ask) it outlines how to remove chrome plating from plastics. It was a chemical process that required a bucket, chemical & time. I don't recall the chemical but it was common household, something like metho or its like. More of a lead really, just to let you know there is an easy way :)

Greasemeup
Kevin Tetz did a series of videos, a lot of them, in one (don't ask) it outlines how to remove chrome plating from plastics. It was a chemical process that required a bucket, chemical & time. I don't recall the chemical but it was common household, something like metho or its like. More of a lead really, just to let you know there is an easy way :)

Your thinking of Muriatic Acid, it will eat the chrome plate off plastic without touching the plastic, it will eat other metals too so dont try to strip metal badges this way
 

Hi All,
ok, have had the first go at refitting the old vinyl onto the good cards. For the first one I have used the cutout for the ashtray and the seam recess around the armrest section as the fixed points to work from. I found on gluing a test section that priming the face of the card was probably a bit of over kill as  the glue wouldn't tack off properly in some areas where the paint was a bit thick, so got some paper and gave it a rub down , particularly around the edges. I used contact cement, selleys now do it in gel form which is a lot easier to spread. Didn't come out too bad, used the bags of sand again to keep pressure on the curves in the recess.
On the next one I am going to glue the edges and work from the top down to see if I can get more stretch in the material as I found myself a little bit short on the edges in a couple of places where there wasn't much material to play with. Pics of first card attached, finished in satin black vinyl spray.
Len

Thet turned out pretty good Len, where the hell did you find good rear door cards? The only time i`ve seen good ones are the high dollar repro`s

Hi Troppo,
Got lucky and bought an interior advertised on gumtree over in WA. Drewdog lived just down the road from where the gear was and he very generously offered to eyeball the gear for me and let me know if it was any good, which fortunately it was, the front door cards being the ones I've refurbished on this thread. he even organized the freight for me, for which I'm very grateful. The vinyl is  a bit knocked around but not so noticeable with now being black. As regards reproduction stuff, I have seen good looking fiberglass ones available on Ebay , which were $175 a pair, if you have good vinyl you can always glue them on and no one would know any different .
Cheers,
Len

NQRS
used the bags of sand again to keep pressure on the curves in the recess

Reminds me of that line in "The 40 Year Old Virgin".

Hi Flighter,
Never did get to see that movie... how did bags of sand come into it??

I don't want to spoil it for you, so recommend you see it and have a good laugh!