New owner that needs color help!!!!
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RE: New owner that needs color help!!!! - 6/20/2007 7:56:38 PM
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gtmustang04
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first of all i would like to thank ur husband for serving our country!!! its people like him that make this country great! and i think what u did for ur husband is cool! here is a link for a silver paint i hope its a help.
http://www.paintforcars.com/aep_gunmetal.html
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RE: New owner that needs color help!!!! - 6/20/2007 9:35:53 PM
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shal
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Hi, i was thinking about getting after market stripes painted on. Do you mind of i ask what the quote was?
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RE: New owner that needs color help!!!! - 6/20/2007 10:30:18 PM
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Gift4Hubby
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gtmustang04, Thank you for your response. Actually hadn't thought of gun metal grey, which is the color I would have ordered the whole car in. The hubby picked out the blue. Good thing I didn't totally surprise him with the car. Anyway, gunmetal grey would be good because it wouldn't be so bright and pop out.
Shal, my quote is a little over $1600. They are going to sand it where it will be painted, take bumpers and hoods off to paint it. Will also take out any gaskets (like at the top of the windshield) and will sand and paint those parts. He said he will then clearcoat it all and I probably will not be able to feel the stripes at all. This is a local repair shop that was voted #1 in the local readers choice poll. I got a quote over the internet from another shop that was $950, but I wasn't sure if I trusted their work. Newer shop and don't want to trust my hubby's baby to just anyone.
Anyone else have any ideas?
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RE: New owner that needs color help!!!! - 6/21/2007 8:54:32 AM
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Margarita Girl
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Hi Melissa,
I think silver stripes would look great on the vista blue. There are so many shades and levels of metalic that I don't envy you having to make a choice.
The body shop that did my car suggested a toyota black instead of the ford for a deeper darker shade. He mixed the paint for both my ford torch red and the toyota black right in the shop. Seems most shops can make any color in-house. You can ask them to make a color suggestion. They also noted that the hood paint needed to be different from the black out and different from the chin spoiler, being three different materials. Exactly what needed to be adjusted in the mix I could not tell you.
As far as cost, they painted my hood, chin spoiler, rear spoiler and between tail lights, including clear coat for $1,000, so you are in the ball park with price. Took one full week.
Great Gift 4 Hubby!
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RE: New owner that needs color help!!!! - 6/21/2007 11:29:57 PM
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plainsman1876
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Silver Blue Poly-Ditzler Code#12164
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