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Drifting
Joined: Jul 2015
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From: Catlett VA
Puffy- you mentioned in your second post that you have the original motor. This may make a difference in your color decision. If everything else about the car is original except the 350 crate motor, I would paint the car the correct 974 Rally Red and have fun driving the car while you are re-building the original 327. When you have time and $$$, put the original motor back in the car. Numbers matching cars are getting scarce and their value is going up accordingly.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Feb 2017
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From: New York
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Puffy, well maybe not a full blown riot. The asylum, which I fully admit to being one of them, has been calm lately, maybe its the heat!!!!! Seriously original paint is one thing ( fantastic if thats what you have) but them there is the next level which is a repaint with the correct color (Remembering there were a few shades of different reds). Lots of "original" cars are in this level of originality. The paint did not hold up well unless the car was extremely pampered.
Again I am in the original camp, not just in cars but thats just me. Red is a nice sale able color too so your lucky. Unless its bad stare at it for a while. I almost did not buy my Ontario Orange 72 because, well it was orange. Now I realized that it a great 1972 color, love it and in fact I am seeing some new cars similarly painted. Ike
Again I am in the original camp, not just in cars but thats just me. Red is a nice sale able color too so your lucky. Unless its bad stare at it for a while. I almost did not buy my Ontario Orange 72 because, well it was orange. Now I realized that it a great 1972 color, love it and in fact I am seeing some new cars similarly painted. Ike
