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To Paint Original Lime Gold or non Orginal Nightmist Blue

Started by Fastback66, August 03, 2020, 04:53:40 PM

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roddster

  How about just painting it a color that is going to make you keep it 50 years?

QuickSilverShelby

Quote from: bobg on December 06, 2020, 11:13:19 AM

       Its only original once. You can repaint it like original but the paint is not original and doesn't look original. My car came sunlit gold but was repainted blue. I went back to gold but put lemans stripes on it so it wouldn't look so plain. Just love it. Its nice to keep with original color but its not original. Go back or forward but don't get to hung up on the original thing. You can make it look like original but its only original once.
But it's not original.  The color has been changed and the owner loves Nightmist Blue.  Who cares what the original color was?  Life is way to short, do what your heart says.......Nightmist Blue!!

QSS
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

shelbymann1970

Quote from: QuickSilverShelby on December 06, 2020, 06:34:49 PM
Quote from: bobg on December 06, 2020, 11:13:19 AM

       Its only original once. You can repaint it like original but the paint is not original and doesn't look original. My car came sunlit gold but was repainted blue. I went back to gold but put lemans stripes on it so it wouldn't look so plain. Just love it. Its nice to keep with original color but its not original. Go back or forward but don't get to hung up on the original thing. You can make it look like original but its only original once.
But it's not original.  The color has been changed and the owner loves Nightmist Blue.  Who cares what the original color was?  Life is way to short, do what your heart says.......Nightmist Blue!!

QSS
+1  I would do the same thing with a 67 that I did with a 70 and a 68. The 70 was a rare drag pack 4 speed FB. i love many blues but HATE grabber blue. It went from GB to RED. My 68 came in HG. I hate dark green so it went black. don't care for white on black so the stripes went RED so since I did that then LeMans stripes came on it. I have owned and sold many Mustangs and did well with both cars when sold. 1 in 1990 and the other in 2013. I would have NOT enjoyed those cars as much in their factory color. To each their own. i only cringe where I see the rhetoric that you will hurt the value when it is said "across the board". Not always and sometimes enhances. Depends on the car.
Shelby owner since 1984
SAAC member since 1990
1970 GT350 4 speed(owned since 1985).
  MCA gold 2003(not anymore)
1969 Mach1 428SCJ 4 speed R-code (owned since 2013)
"2nd" owner of 68 GT500 #1626

Side-Oilers

^^^I agree^^^.  Red stripes over black looks killer!
Current:
2006 FGT, Tungsten. Whipple, HRE 20s, Ohlin coil-overs. Top Speed Certified 210.7 mph.

Kirkham Cobra 427.  482-inch aluminum side-oiler. Tremec 5-spd.

Previous:
1968 GT500KR #2575 (1982-2022)
1970 Ranchero GT 429
1969 LTD Country Squire 429
1963 T-Bird Sport Roadster
1957 T-Bird E-model

shelbymann1970

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Quote from: Side-Oilers on December 23, 2020, 03:33:57 PM
^^^I agree^^^.  Red stripes over black looks killer!
Hardest part was what shade of red. I initially wanted Ford CA red to match my 70 Vert but it was too dark. We kept mixing with a PPG mixing machine until we got the right red that popped. Luckily my painter had a black Harley pickup to use  to "test" the contrast on a color sample spray out card. Stencil kit by Phoenix graphics to paint on the side stripes. The 68 was a crowd favorite. The 1997 SAAC world registry sleeve cover with a 68 with red stripes hooked me on the combo.  Gary
Shelby owner since 1984
SAAC member since 1990
1970 GT350 4 speed(owned since 1985).
  MCA gold 2003(not anymore)
1969 Mach1 428SCJ 4 speed R-code (owned since 2013)
"2nd" owner of 68 GT500 #1626

Side-Oilers

Current:
2006 FGT, Tungsten. Whipple, HRE 20s, Ohlin coil-overs. Top Speed Certified 210.7 mph.

Kirkham Cobra 427.  482-inch aluminum side-oiler. Tremec 5-spd.

Previous:
1968 GT500KR #2575 (1982-2022)
1970 Ranchero GT 429
1969 LTD Country Squire 429
1963 T-Bird Sport Roadster
1957 T-Bird E-model

427heaven

 Great looking cars! A wise old man once told me, No not CONFUSCIOUS.. I think his name was Jones, what will the people want after you have had your time with it! A lesson learned when some of my toys became so personal that the masses frowned at them. From then on I have stayed with more mainstream thoughts. Some colors just look better then others, even if you do a color change.