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    6/10/2013 8:08 PM  #1

    darren
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    Lets talk paint.....

    So, the back story that some of you may know.....I built this car and sold it 12 years ago.
    The one I'm building now will be the same color, 2000 Chrysler PH2 Candy Apple Red, with the same whel tire combo, and Palomino interior.
    I have side scoops and a shelby hood on the new car, and can't decide on a stripe color for the Shelby style stripes. Hertz Gold, Dark Charcoal, Black, etc....
    Thoughts, opinions?

     

    6/10/2013 8:10 PM  #2

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    Re: Lets talk paint.....

    Another shot

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    6/10/2013 8:16 PM  #3

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    Re: Lets talk paint.....

    keep it the same as shown in the pics...........

     

    6/10/2013 8:42 PM  #4

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    Re: Lets talk paint.....

    Yep, that gold one looks pretty good.  If changed, a champagne color might be good.

    Money you enjoy wasting is NOT wasted money... unless your wife finds out.
     

    6/10/2013 8:44 PM  #5

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    Re: Lets talk paint.....

    I have to go with ol' yeller bird on this one, go with the same as your other one!!

     

    6/10/2013 9:33 PM  #6

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    Re: Lets talk paint.....

    and Darren, don't sell this one............

     

    6/11/2013 2:26 PM  #7

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    Re: Lets talk paint.....

    I hear ya.
    Thought I was doing good selling the car for enough to pay cash for a 2001 Expedition Eddie Bauer..... The Mustang is still worth 28k, I sold the Expedition last year for 4500.....
    BUT, it served us well, shuttling the kids to soccer games and visiting my Dad during his last months in Ky., all without having a car payment.
    All that's in the past.....
    I'm going to pick up a drivers headlight bucket tonight, the last part I need to have the body complete.
    Spent last night looking at paint, and I'm thinking the 07 Shelby GT-H Gold will be my stripe color.
    Give me a few weeks, and we should have color on this thing....

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    6/11/2013 3:03 PM  #8

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    Re: Lets talk paint.....

    Just my two cents worth...  If you are going with the GT350 theme, don't put the 289 badges on the fenders.  That is a dead give-away that it is not a GT350.  I am OK with cloning a car, if you actually clone the WHOLE car.  Ditto with the fog lights, grille corral and exhaust through the valance.  Like I said.  Just my opinion, and it is YOUR car.

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    6/11/2013 3:40 PM  #9

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    Re: Lets talk paint.....

    I agree, to a point.
    I'm not really trying to clone a GT 350 , just building a car with the elements I like.
    I'm strugglingwith  what to put in the rocker stripes, because I HATE when people ask if its real, and then shrug like its worthless when you tell them its a clone.
    IF I do the GT 350, in the rocker stripes, it will be in the font used on the Ford GT, which I used on the 65 convertible I painted.
    I may do rocker stripes with nothing in them. Lemans stripes without rocker stripes looks awkward in my mind.
    As an aside, when I built the car pictured, it had NO Ford or Mustang emblems anywhere, ala Bullitt Mustangs.
    The guy I sold it to added the FORD on the hood, and the 289 emblems with Hipo badges, because it was what HE liked.
    Edit: He added the side scoops and rocker stripes too, it was very much a subtle car when I had it.
    Edit2: He took the lowering blocks off the rear axle, and swapped out the Turbo mufflers for glasspacks too..... I think it sits waaay too high.

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    6/11/2013 3:49 PM  #10

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    Re: Lets talk paint.....

    I fully agree you should do it how YOU want it, but as you mentioned... When people ask if real or not...   I think it would look great as a full blown clone.  Then your answer would be... CAN YOU TELL ME IF IT IS REAL OR NOT?  That generally takes the steam out of them, but it has to be done with all the details correct for the clone.  Then they can look it over and decide for themselves.

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    6/11/2013 4:09 PM  #11

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    A very good point, but I'm too far along the course I've taken.
    95% of the people at a gas station couldn't tell me if it is a clone or not, however its built.
    If I said its real, they'd probably tell me how they had one just like it back in the day, and their "wifes uncles brother on his left side has an original one sitting in a barn and won't sell it for ANY price.....perfect condition, he starts it a couple times a year, but it just sits....(shakes head) its a shame really. But yours is ALMOST as nice as his, and at least you drive yours."

    We've all heard from THOSE types.

    Now, how do I do the rocker stripes to avoid all that? Solid on the front fender?

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    6/11/2013 6:23 PM  #12

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    Re: Lets talk paint.....

    darren wrote:

    Now, how do I do the rocker stripes to avoid all that? Solid on the front fender?

     
    How about simply M-U-S-T-A-N-G in GT 350 style lettering?

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    6/12/2013 9:57 AM  #13

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    Re: Lets talk paint.....

    I say an off white or lite cream

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    6/12/2013 10:47 AM  #14

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    Re: Lets talk paint.....

    Derek wrote:

    I say an off white or lite cream

     +1 for off white

     

    6/12/2013 4:57 PM  #15

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    Re: Lets talk paint.....

     I HATE when people ask if its real, and then shrug like its worthless when you tell them its a clone.


    I'm not that bad butt...I do look at one different when I ask..."did you put it together,yourself" and their answer is .."no....I bought it like this".
    To me.......that knocks it down a few notchs in the "admireablility factor".
      Mine SHORE ain't perfect butt....I did most all my stuff to it!
    Know what I mean?!
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    6/12/2013 8:14 PM  #16

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    Re: Lets talk paint.....

    Darren my buddy has a 2004 anni edition Mustang in crimson red with Arizona sand stripes, looks awesome.
    Google that year and color to check it out, you may agree with me.

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    6/12/2013 9:35 PM  #17

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    That is a very nice combo, Rudi.

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    6/13/2013 7:00 AM  #18

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    Re: Lets talk paint.....

    6sally6 wrote:

     I HATE when people ask if its real, and then shrug like its worthless when you tell them its a clone.


    I'm not that bad butt...I do look at one different when I ask..."did you put it together,yourself" and their answer is .."no....I bought it like this".
    To me.......that knocks it down a few notchs in the "admireablility factor".
      Mine SHORE ain't perfect butt....I did most all my stuff to it!
    Know what I mean?!
    6sally6
     

    +1     I know exactly what u mean.  Although I don't begrudge a guy who just wants to ride and buys a nice one. Come to think of it maybe I should have bought 2 cars, one nice one to drive and then the one I've got to build myself.

    I like the color in the pics. I would stay with that, it looks very nice.
     

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    6/13/2013 7:39 AM  #19

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    My car must have been very popular back in the 60's!
    You would not believe how many people come up to me at car shows and tell me they had one just like it. ;)

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