"Correct" Paint Color Help Please!!!
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Le Mans Master
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"Correct" Paint Color Help Please!!!
When the 72 comes home from the painter, I want to paint the "inside" metal of the doors, and restore/repaint the front grill. What is the "correct" color and finish?? Grill looks to be a flat black, and the inside door looks semi-flat. What is "correct"? Please help!
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Eddie
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Eddie
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Re: "Correct" Paint Color Help Please!!! (Silvr77)
The grills are NOT flat black. They have a "sparkle dark grey" finish to them.
I just got a set of NOS bumper guards for my '72. Theyv'e been in an Arizona warehouse for almost 30 years - chrome is perfect, but the paint has literally flaked off in large chucks. I have the chunks and am planning to see if a paint store can do a "color match". Sounds like your time table is sooner than mine, so if you want to borrow the chips, your certainly welcome to them.
Judging from the way my inside door metal looks, they were never painted.
Let me know about the chips...
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I just got a set of NOS bumper guards for my '72. Theyv'e been in an Arizona warehouse for almost 30 years - chrome is perfect, but the paint has literally flaked off in large chucks. I have the chunks and am planning to see if a paint store can do a "color match". Sounds like your time table is sooner than mine, so if you want to borrow the chips, your certainly welcome to them.
Judging from the way my inside door metal looks, they were never painted.
Let me know about the chips...
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Le Mans Master
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Re: "Correct" Paint Color Help Please!!! (sray454)
Hey Mike! :seeya
I am judging the inside door color by what I see on the 77. Only a portion of the forward metal shows once the door panel is installed. As far as the grill, bumperette, and parking lamp grill....mine are faded so it appeared to be black. Thanks for the metalic grey tip, and YES...I will take you up on the chip offer. Will email you. Thanks bud.
I have digital pics of the 72 during the stripping stage, block primer stage, and will get first color coat pics tonight!! If ya wanna see...I'll send em to your email account.
Talk to ya soon.
Eddie
I am judging the inside door color by what I see on the 77. Only a portion of the forward metal shows once the door panel is installed. As far as the grill, bumperette, and parking lamp grill....mine are faded so it appeared to be black. Thanks for the metalic grey tip, and YES...I will take you up on the chip offer. Will email you. Thanks bud.
I have digital pics of the 72 during the stripping stage, block primer stage, and will get first color coat pics tonight!! If ya wanna see...I'll send em to your email account.
Talk to ya soon.
Eddie
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From: College Station TX
Re: "Correct" Paint Color Help Please!!! (Silvr77)
OK - so if your talking about the black paint that is on the outside of the door, on the leading edge that the hinges go through ... that surface is painted semi-flat / semi-gloss and extends from the top of the "panel" down and under the front lower curve. I don't believe it goes very far down the under side of the door - if at all. When you remove your door panels, you can see the overspray on the metal surface of the door - and on mine it looks to have been shot from the front of the door and did not wrap under too far ... and I'm pretty sure the black was ONLY on the inside of the wetherstrip.
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