86turbonational
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Hi,
I am in the process of my frame off and im really trying to decide what to do with the color on this thing. the car was a 1985 t-type that had bench seat, column shift, no power anything, and is silver. this is a 1 owner car with 60k actual miles.
I am keeping it hotair but building it along with a fresh rebuild due to sitting for the last 11 years. the car will appear to be stock but im hoping for a mid 12 et. out of it. I am converting it into the bucket seats with center console simply because its more desirable and with the car stripped this far it will be easy to do.
as i said the car originally was silver with gray interior. im planning on keeping the gray interior and was seriously thinking of painting the outside a very light gray, almost like a dull silver. the more t-types i look at im finding more colors i seem to fall in love with.
My question is, do you think if i was to paint this car blue or something would it take away from the value when i sell? if i stay with the light gray it would somewhat match the rpo codes. I dont think anyone would ever really pay much attention to that. it would be more obvious if the rpo codes states its a silver car thats blue.
so dollar wise would this be a mistake? would you buy a car because it was beautiful and was a different color? im paying almost 9k for the repaint and thats with me completly stripping the car myself!!
thanks for help on this tough decision..
I am in the process of my frame off and im really trying to decide what to do with the color on this thing. the car was a 1985 t-type that had bench seat, column shift, no power anything, and is silver. this is a 1 owner car with 60k actual miles.
I am keeping it hotair but building it along with a fresh rebuild due to sitting for the last 11 years. the car will appear to be stock but im hoping for a mid 12 et. out of it. I am converting it into the bucket seats with center console simply because its more desirable and with the car stripped this far it will be easy to do.
as i said the car originally was silver with gray interior. im planning on keeping the gray interior and was seriously thinking of painting the outside a very light gray, almost like a dull silver. the more t-types i look at im finding more colors i seem to fall in love with.
My question is, do you think if i was to paint this car blue or something would it take away from the value when i sell? if i stay with the light gray it would somewhat match the rpo codes. I dont think anyone would ever really pay much attention to that. it would be more obvious if the rpo codes states its a silver car thats blue.
so dollar wise would this be a mistake? would you buy a car because it was beautiful and was a different color? im paying almost 9k for the repaint and thats with me completly stripping the car myself!!
thanks for help on this tough decision..