1969 Road Runner facelift

[Budnicks]

I'd have to do a lot of sanding to get back to that look. I think i'll just keep going towards the T7 lol!

Great color

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69 Plymouth color chart... color looks different in every shot/photo etc...

 

[northerndave]

That's what I've found as well.

All paint colors can vary in appearance but T7 seems like it's all over the map.

One good thing about that is... who's gonna tell you yours if "off"?

:grin:

 

[Budnicks]

That's what I've found as well.

All paint colors can vary in appearance but T7 seems like it's all over the map.

One good thing about that is... who's gonna tell you yours if "off"?

:grin:

LOL... yeah you got a good point there, I'm sure different type of base or primer color, will make a difference in final shades too

 

[northerndave]

Dry fitting bezels to quarters... tedious....

 

[wannadrag]

Dry fitting bezels to quarters... tedious....

On my GTX i bet i spent 8 hrs to get both of them to match the goodmark skins

 

[northerndave]

One of the studs for the drivers side is stripped (threads)

So, I bring it to work tomorrow and try alum welding or brazing some material onto the thread so I can spin a die on the stud, cut some new threads... cripe sakes the stupid little things that slow a guy down...

 

[northerndave]

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.

 

[Ron 73]

Looks really good Dave, That emblem says it all there, motivation maker! Good luck..

 

[northerndave]

Great color

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69 Plymouth color chart... color looks different in every shot/photo etc...

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.

 

[Gpuller]

One good thing about that is... who's gonna tell you yours if "off"?

:grin:

I might. :tongueflap:

 

[northerndave]

I look forward to that type of banter. lol!

 

[northerndave]

Getting ready to spray some more surfacing primer tonight (urethane, final application of my blocking material)

It went really good, I didn't clean the booth or put a paint suit on because I'm just going to block sand half of this off anyways lol.

 

[b-star69]

man that's cool

 

[BigBlock61]

Really looking forward to seeing the bird with color. This is a fun ride.

 

[northerndave]

I had some Wimbledon white left over from a previous project, single stage urethane. I sprayed it on the roof for the color sealing issues I was talking about earlier with the vinyl top.

Going to pick up the T7 base coat now.

 

[roadrunnerman]

Dave, I'm getting real stoked on seeing your car with color on it.

 

[Budnicks]

looks laser straight...

 

[northerndave]

I might have shown an old yellow pickup further back in this thread. I did a real quick paint job on my uncles old woods truck to lift his spirits last fall. He's bee fighting cancer for a bit over a year now. He lost his fight today while I was goofing with my car.

Very sad day.

Have some pics to share of today's work, unsure what's up for the rest of the weekend.

 

[Basket case]

sorry for your loss

beautiful work

 

[northerndave]

thanks.