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I am just getting my drive quality 1973 vert back together. It is a 48,000 mile car that sat for now 25 years. I have gone through the mechanical, electrical and most of the interior. Of course the tail light gaskets had leaked and there were pin holes around the tail lights. This is a California car and he must have washed it a lot, lol. He had put a boom box in the trunk and when the tail lights leaked it rusted the trunk floor. No holes just surface rust. I tried the Evapo Rust stuff with no success and after two weeks of soaking towels and putting stretch wrap over it I just went with wire brush on drill and did best I could. I then phosphate and applied Gray POR over that. I put some new seam sealer in places that was cracked or peeling. Today I used fiber glass mat and epoxy to repair around the tail light seal surface in the tail light panel. Not going to cut out the panel and replace. This is a drive not a show car. It does still have original paint and interior. I got new Carpenter tail light seals that are much harder EPDM I think rubber and new tail light lens and trim. I refinished the tail light buckets.
So I thought I better order me some spatter paint to finish off the trunk. Well when I went to NPD there paint says "Almost matches" . What is the best match for the original mostly black / grey base spatter paint in our cars. I have not bought any in 35 years and have no idea what is closest. Again not a show car i just want it to look correct.
I did do search but came up without anything so I probably did search wrong, lol. Getting old sucks.
The trunk pic is my original 73 Mach 1 so I have something to compare to. The yellow car is one I am working on.
Thanks for any help.
So I thought I better order me some spatter paint to finish off the trunk. Well when I went to NPD there paint says "Almost matches" . What is the best match for the original mostly black / grey base spatter paint in our cars. I have not bought any in 35 years and have no idea what is closest. Again not a show car i just want it to look correct.
I did do search but came up without anything so I probably did search wrong, lol. Getting old sucks.
The trunk pic is my original 73 Mach 1 so I have something to compare to. The yellow car is one I am working on.
Thanks for any help.