FWIW I like it.
Thanks for the advice Greg! I do have a spray gun and compressor so I'll do some research and find someone that can mix me up a custom batch of paint. I've gotten nowhere with the rattle cans.Hi Idaho Chris,
Regards your center console color.
The black contrast is an option, and looks pretty good. However, if you wanted to color change it to matching blue, the only way to achieve this is to take your car down to a decent paint and panel shop that can either color match paint by eye of use a spectrograph analizer. The best paint to work with is auto acrylic Lacquer, but 2 pak solids can be ok as well. You can even get to choose the gloss level you want to end up with. Your whole interior has a few different shades of blue. Choose the one that you like the look of best and go with that.Also the upholstery has a very fine hint of metallic in it. This effect can also be reproduced in the made up paint. If you possess spray guns and a compressor, you could take on this refinish job yourself. If not, then leave it to a pro spray painter to refinish, as spraying plastics is always a tricky deal to get it right.
So forget rattle can paints, color matching is the only way to get a good match that you are chasing. Hope that helps.
Greg (pro spray painter) :classic_smile:
Chris, call KC Auto Paint on 4th in Coeur d'Alene. I've had good luck with them and they're closer than Spokane. Also less sales tax. :thumb:Thanks for the advice Greg! I do have a spray gun and compressor so I'll do some research and find someone that can mix me up a custom batch of paint. I've gotten nowhere with the rattle cans.
I live in the middle of nowhere, so unfortunately that business is likely a two hour drive each way (Spokane).
I have refinished many consoles and have never had an issue with the SEM paints matching. You should be using the paint not the dye. ABS hard parts use the paints that I have always had 100% perfect match with. You need to strip all the old paints off the console first using oven cleaner. Then wash with Dawn and hot water and then a wipe down with lacquer thinner before paint. Only two light coats are needed. If you put too much paint on you fill in the texture and will look odd for sure. I have never had a complaint on finish or color using the SEM paints. I get mine from NPD. I have a blue interior 72 Mach 1 that came with full length console but it has never needed to be refurbished. As far as getting it scanned and mix paint that would be a huge cost for just your console. Have been doing them for over 50 years started with 65 console.I re-installed the center console for the third time.
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I have tried two different batches of SEM interior medium blue paint on my center console but the color was a fair ways off from the rest of the interior and just looked horrible. I have decided to go black on the console and the contrast seems to work well with my door panels and center gauge stack (I got rid of the fake wood look back in '79).
I'll keep searching for the correct color paint and if I manage to find it I'll try painting the console again. For the moment though, the two tone blue/black is growing on me...
Been a while, but I used to just unbolt the regulator from the door. Be sure to block or clamp the window up.Stared into the darkness that is the passenger door trying to figure out how y'all remove the power window motor without the Ford recommended procedure of drilling new removal holes. Every post I've seen that doesn't involve cutting access holes is along the lines of "easy-breezy: remove door skin, add a little magic sauce, remove the motor". Just trying to figure out the magic sauce.
You're getting pretty good at this. :thumb:I made a bigger hole around the other hole(s):
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Gotta make a patch now:
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