Door card paint, dash board paint...

[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?

[Maxwell]

Troy - The TRDC have access to a great Tan vinyl paint - not sure how we could get it to you, though!
Maxwell

[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.

[troydeon]

If someone has the data that would be helpful... and then I could see about getting it over here...

[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

[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

[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?

[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.

[Maxwell]

Rich - PM sent.

Maxwell

[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)