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4-11-2012
Hi Guys,
Car is ready for painting now. I am having a lot of problems with the color, I tried different original formulas and none of them look as they should look, so
basically I am looking for a nowadays car color, anything that match originals, which is almost impossible. Will let you know...
About parts, everything come from Estates, that means a lot of duties and shipping cost.
Cheers,
4-18-2012
Well, after 4 months thinking about the color and making different samples, the chosen color is Silver Mink Poly.
My car was originally Platinum (N) but it´s not one of my favourites colors for this car, I tried to match Sultana or Ermine but got creamy yellow samples nothing similar to hundreds of pics I got on internet, after trying Silver Mink in 3 different shops I got the right sample.
I have to mention that Silver Mink is different from 62/63 than 64. This I was told by 62´s Tbirds forum on Facebook. That´s why It came grey at my first samples, when I found the right one is like silver blue metallic, last pic attached.
To match Silver Mink was a headache in my country but thank´s to Azkonobel I could get the right code 338A1 FA62:G.
http://www.qnetonline.nl/SIKES/Formula/ ... nufacturer m
I must say that mine is not going to be 338A1 (which is original one as Todd´s), I ordered 338A4.
I explain this, at Azkonobel each color has 6 different escales from lightest to darkest. I chose fourth scale of this tone because I like a bit more of blue on it.
Let´s see how looks like when it gets finished, of course I will post more pics.
4-19-2012
Today was a hard day, 5000‚¬ rechrome budget. This is much more that I could have ever thought. But now everything is new in the car, can´t leave the old chromes, so I must go for it.
Holidays will have to wait for next year.
4-23-2012
Yes Todd, I was going to do that but at the chrome shop they told me that it was not worth it because what makes the budget expensive are
the massive bumpers, and the grile and interior small parts material.
It looks that in my country they are good professional when it's a steel piece, but when it´s aluminium or similar (like ashtrays, door handles, ornaments, ....) they are not qualified enough, because they spend a lot of material and too many hours.
Well that´s what they say... I am sure it´s not so difficult, but there´s a chrome shop each 200 kilometers. I tried in two different shops, and next is 400 kms far, so I can´t do anything else.
I hope parts look good. They will take about 7 weeks, and I need a long time to assembly the car so I wish I could drive the car this summer.
Paint is ready. Car is coming back home tomorrow.
4-24-2012
Thank´s for your advice. Assembly will be a hard and long job.
Here you are some more pics, car looks darker in pictures, but it´s much lighter. Color changes a lot in the pictures, can´t explain why.
12-18-2012
New pics attached.
