There’s this thing that people joke about called the contractor’s triangle. It states that you can have something done well, done cheap, or done fast, but you can only pick two. There’s a version of this for cars too, I think. Once you pick a model of used car to buy, you can get the condition you want, the price you want it at, or in the color you want. Except, that is, if you’re Vin Anatra formerly of Hoonigan and you’re buying a Ferrari, you only get to pick one.
Vin started a YouTube channel a while ago after his departure from Hoonigan, and one of the more entertaining series he’s done thus far has been on the 1999 Ferrari 360 Modena that he somehow managed to pick up for under $50,000. Of course, at that nice price, there’s a ton of other sacrifices that were made, one of which is the color of both the paint and the interior. It’s the latter that concerns us now.
Vin’s Ferrari was optioned in an interior color called Crema which is a super pale beige. It’d be mostly fine if it were in good condition, but of course, Vin’s isn’t. To fix this, he has decided to do the thing that many of us with project cars have considered at one point or another: changing the color.
Instead of blasting the leather interior appointments with something out of a spray can, Vin ordered a kit from the leather care specialists at Leatherique that will do more than just look black-adjacent and crispy on top of his old leather. It’s actual dye, and the process of applying it is slightly more time consuming, but the results, as you’ll see, are excellent and totally doable by those of us who have the patience to rip our interiors out and spend several days dabbing at it with a cloth.
Despite the effort, the results appear to be turning the car enthusiast’s triangle paradigm on its ear because Vin now has a cheap Ferrari that’s at least the color he wants on the inside and it only cost him $120.
