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Shot some urethane surfacing primer on this door that's been kicking my butt. Yeah this thing is finally nice, I'll block this last round of surfacer out with 400 then I'm ready for color. I had to pop these in just for a little motivation.
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suhhhweeet I'm getting stoked!
I wanna ride in it first, I call dibs.
I'm pretty much unemployed these days Dave, so you can swing by house anytime!
and a big plus + since you're not drinking you can be my DD
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lol! ok, I'll be the DD
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Dave,
Forgive me if I missed it, but wondering if you have a color picked out?
Bob
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Brown.
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Was peddling to the store this afternoon, saw something that will make a nice addition to your rat-rod....dropped it in the mail. Don't worry about the smell,..I salted it down pretty good... You can thank me when you see me...
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did u hit that with your bike?
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Nah,..was gonna ramp off of it and catch some sweet air, but a gust of wind from a semi hit at a crucial moment,..had to swerve...
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Something clever here.
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Brown. Ok, funny guy!
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It will be nice for another project though. The phone camera flash really screwed that picture up too, it's nice, it's just not right. That color would look great on a shoebox ford... I'm not sure what that colar is but I had a buddy in high school that had a 70 cuda in brunt orange met that was wicked looking in the sun. Greg
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My color is Plymouth color code "T7" Saddle bronze metallic. so.... Brown. Lol! But it has "sparkles" if that helps any? White vinyl top, I started calling this combo the root beer float a while back. I've told this many times in this thread but I know it's a gawd awful long thread to sift through so I'll explain again. I was going to pick my very own color but these cars are coded by a tag on the inner fender. The "fender tag" is sort of special to the mopar guys and I have mine. Not only do I have mine but it decodes correctly with everything the car still has, right down to the factory original engine and transmission (they have the VIN stamped into them) The car was unique enough being a 4 speed car, N96 (the air grabber hood) sure grip rear end and a white vinyl top. I felt compelled to return it to it's original colors due to the car retaining all it's original components for 44 years. So, it's going to be brown.
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Very nice Dave. I'm glad your returning it to the "correct" code. Those TV shows that have quick flips on them drive me nuts! They slather enough bondo on the car ( usually right over the rust ) to ice a cake.
Shoot a pretty ( but wrong ) color on 'em and then say they sold it for 10 trillion dollars!
First bump in the road I expect the fenders to fall off in chunks.
You are doing it right, Dave. And if you ever go to sell it, it WILL bring in correct dollars too.
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My color is Plymouth color code "T7"
Saddle bronze metallic.
so.... Brown. Hmmmmm..... Brown? I can't picture Saddle bronze metallic, so I Googled up a link to an older Dodge with that colour... This is a 1969 Charger -- close enough to get an idea I suppose... And here is a link with LOTS of pictures '69 Charger pictures I think going with the original colour scheme for such an original car is going to increase the value a lot. Keep up your great threads, Dave! Rick Bin should be paying you for them!John
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That's it John, that's the color.
My car is very similar to this charger, both are 69 B-bodies, saddle bronze with manual trans. Very neat car that charger.
I still struggle with the while wheel selection thing for my car. I bounce back and forth between a 5 spoke wheel of some sort or the old jelly bean slotted mags, either of which would be aftermarket period correct for someone dressing up their muscle car back in the day.
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I'm going to post the paint formula we decided to go with in case it may be of value to another T7 guy out there.
Here's what we did.
I took my car's driver side door over to my buddy's collision repair shop. He's a jobber for "Metalux" brand of automotive paints and he had a vast collection of metallic color cards. We had the car door outside in the sunlight and we peeled back the factory weather stripping from the inside on the door. This exposed perfectly preserved factory original paint to the sunlight for the first time ever. The paint was not marred or dulled in any way, no adhesive or any other sort of residue, it was perfectly clean, perfectly preserved for our visual color match.
We sorted through hundreds of color cards under many different families of tones etc. From a distance or perhaps from memory, it's likely that any of the hundreds of panels would have been "close enough". But we narrowed it down to a final 5, then 3, then 2, then 1 by viewing at many angles for gauging color flop, many different light conditions including a special light he had for helping in this sort of selection. The color we chose was our very best effort at matching the original single stage factory paint, and we were very thorough.
So, with all that being said.
Our Metalux code for the base is,
Code: EY01080 Variant: Standard Product: Metalux Range: BC Effect
That�s what we�ve got. Perhaps that code can be cross referenced to other product brands.
I�m calling my buddy today and asking him to mix some of this up for me as I�m about ready to start jambing.
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I've got an old classmate on FB who's a Mopar and muscle car junkie and he's forever posting pics of sweet muscle from the 60's and 70's. This one looks to be the color you describe as T7
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"Brown" hardly does that color justice! Very nice! Not sure i remembered it as an original Mopar color, but then I'm not a died in the wool Mopar guy. Thanks for taking the time to cover some of the old ground buried somewhere deep in this rather short thread. My brother is a Mopar junkie and has the 1st 440/6 pack Challenger that came off the assembly line. He has a couple others that still needs restored. When Dodge reintroduced the Challengers he was in line and got one of the first years. I'll see if I can't snag a couple pictures to post if folks would like to see. Cheers, Bob
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I've got an old classmate on FB who's a Mopar and muscle car junkie and he's forever posting pics of sweet muscle from the 60's and 70's. This one looks to be the color you describe as T7 That very well could be, the T5 was close to T7 but with more arange/copper tint and a shade lighter overall... this daytona could be T5. Hard to tell with screen shots and then there is the whole current day likeness effect on these old colors. Current base/clear takes these old colors to a new level, they actually look nicer than they did when they were brand new. "Brown" I'll see if I can't snag a couple pictures to post if folks would like to see.
Cheers, Bob Yes please.
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Dave, I know you did a bunch of searching for RRs the same color you're going for and you've probably seen this one, but what the heck-
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