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Topic: Original Color ??
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mellowyellow
Gearhead Posts: 5456
From: So. Fl.
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 04-08-2002 09:40 AM
  
If you bought a super nice car that was what you'd been looking for, and it suited your "all original" taste, would you change the color if it was a color you couldn't stand. Ex. I lucked into a 68 Shelby 350 some years back. It was originally Lime Metallic. I was going to change to white w/blue stripes. My yellow 68 cv was Seafoam Green--The sound of mucous! ugh! My current ride IS original color-new paint. What would YOU do??
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V8 Thumper
Gearhead Posts: 2807
From: Orange, Ca. United States of America
Registered: Dec 2001
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posted 04-08-2002 10:17 AM
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Originally posted by mellowyellow:
My yellow 68 cv was Seafoam Green--The sound of mucous! ugh!
LOL! That's a awful color... who could blame you?
Unless it's a trailer queen, paint it the color YOU like. Even if you're going for show points in the future, you can allways put it back to the way it was 
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70SportsRoof
Gearhead Posts: 471
From: Mesa, AZ...for now....
Registered: Dec 2001
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posted 04-08-2002 03:26 PM
I was reading an article by Bob Perkins a while back, he talked about just this subject. It's worth more to an absolute purist if it is still it's factory color. But, he then said that any color as long as it was a factory color would have very little impact on value. I was lucky and my car was origianlly Medium Blue Metallic, but had it been Lime Gold I would have changed it to a factory offered color. I have my eye on a really nice rust free '67 coupe, Lime Gold that's about a 1/2 mile from me. If it get it then I'll change it's color, maybe Highland Green. ------------------
1970 Deluxe SportsRoof (63B),(2)46 Ford trucks, 47 Ford truck, 57 Ford Fairlane 500 4dr, '72 Olds Vista Cruiser(for sale), '88 Bronco II(for sale)...running out of room, selling some of my projects
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mellowyellow
Gearhead Posts: 5456
From: So. Fl.
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 04-08-2002 04:28 PM
Well....your COULD compromise!!! Lime Metallic with a Seafoam Green top!!! Be a good advertising prop for Vicks cold buster! Ugh! That color is raising it's ugly head..again!! It's on Mitsubish Eclipse and VW bug and would you believe!!!!! Pontiac Aztec. Rosie O'D has an Aztec! Color perfect for her!! LMAO!
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Fastymz
Moderator Posts: 8516
From: Reno Nv USA MEM#1240
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 04-08-2002 05:08 PM
I say paint what every color you like.
While your at it ADD a scoop and flare those fenders too.  SCOOP ------------------
65 coupe,Big Boss 429 hood scoop,Crager SS,Black Suede. https://mustangsandmore.com/ubb/Fastymz.html
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SteveLaRiviere
Administrator Posts: 30097
From: Saco, Maine
Registered: May 99
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posted 04-08-2002 08:02 PM
If I didn't like the color, I'd paint it the color I like and not even think twice about it. When I first got my Mach 1, I was bummed because I thought the original color was Grabber Blue. I was going to change the color to a metallic blue, and I was really happy when I found that's what the original color was.------------------
'70 Mustang Mach 1 M code 351C 4V/FMX/3.25 open
'72 Mustang Sprint Coupe 351C 4V/FMX/4.30 Trac Lok
'94 F-150 XL 5.8L/E4OD/3.55 Limited Slip
MCA Member # 47773
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70 Pony
Gearhead Posts: 1783
From: Glenmoore, PA, USA
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 04-08-2002 08:16 PM
I think if you have a valuable, all original car, you're stuck with the original color. Strictly for financial reasons...
That's why, when I looked for my Pony, I didn't want anything that I shouldn't change.
My tricked up '70 was originally a lime green, plain jane 302 fastback, grocery getter. With P/S P/B and A/C...and a body with no bondo and straight as an arrow, with only a tiny bit of rust on the bottom of the trunk well at the rear 1/4's.
The perfect, "Non" collectible to restore and modify..... Just my 2 cents------------------
EDDIE D
Resto Mod '70 Sport Roof
Arrest Me Red
'02 GT, Torch Red
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