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Door card paint, dash board paint...

Posted: 16 Aug 2015 03:44
by troydeon
The door cards on my TR8 are extremely faded... Someone mentioned that if you buy a new one it fades pretty bad as well and recommended a paint for them...
I can't find that post... it may have been here or it may have been on facebook...
In the same conversation it was mentioned that a grey paint matching the dashboards was available...
It seems to me that there were two tan colors available camel and another one...
Does anyone know anything about either paints?

Re: Door card paint, dash board paint...

Posted: 16 Aug 2015 07:56
by Maxwell
Troy - The TRDC have access to a great Tan vinyl paint - not sure how we could get it to you, though!
Maxwell :D

Re: Door card paint, dash board paint...

Posted: 16 Aug 2015 10:05
by Rich K
Hi Maxwell, could you let me have the details for the tan vinyl paint as I am restoring a blue drophead with badly faded tan interior. Are there more than one shade available?
Thanks, Rich.

Re: Door card paint, dash board paint...

Posted: 16 Aug 2015 13:40
by troydeon
If someone has the data that would be helpful... and then I could see about getting it over here...

Re: Door card paint, dash board paint...

Posted: 16 Aug 2015 19:00
by Maxwell
Rich - Are you a TRDC Member? We ran a small feature sometime last year in TR-Driver...
We were working on Blue - I'm not sure just how far we've progressed.
I'll email Paul- the guy looking into it!

Maxwell :)

Re: Door card paint, dash board paint...

Posted: 16 Aug 2015 22:04
by Maxwell
Paul is away at the moment but asked me to re-post this:

'We can supply the paint code to the US but would not be able to guarantee the colour match or the quality of the product. I can look into getting some 'sent over' but would have to send an amount that was worth the cost'.

Reference the blue. I now have a blue door card that I can match. I will drop it off at the paint manufacturers next week and let you know. As for colour, as far as I am aware there is only one shade of tan, and one shade of blue.
Paul
8)

Re: Door card paint, dash board paint...

Posted: 17 Aug 2015 01:14
by FI Spyder
There were two colours of tan I believe, tan and beige (UK) = biscuit (N/A) if I interpret the different parts books right or am I missing something?

Re: Door card paint, dash board paint...

Posted: 17 Aug 2015 09:46
by Rich K
Hi Maxwell, yes I am in the TRDC and I do recall reading an article about the tan paint. I assume the contact details to obtain the paint are printed in the article or do you have them? It is actually the tan (or biscuit?) that I need as the car is Cavalry blue with tan interior.
Thanks,
Rich.

Re: Door card paint, dash board paint...

Posted: 17 Aug 2015 09:57
by Maxwell
Rich - PM sent.

Maxwell :D

Re: Door card paint, dash board paint...

Posted: 18 Aug 2015 04:28
by troydeon
I found the original conversation on the TWOA facebook page...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TWOAGro ... 476772266/

David Elsberry provided photos and a link to the die that he had used...

and some notes about the grey color for the dash ( that is gray and colour for those that aren't over here)