alright FINALLY done with my first year of college (yeah at the same time it did seem to go pretty fast) so now i can get working on some cosmetic things ive been ACHING to do...
like this grille. as some might know my dad rear ended someone with this thing at like 5-10 mph, hence the yellow showing on the front bumper :hick: dunno what ill do about that, but he had to replace the cracked up grille.
is the color i need to paint it EXACTLY the same as the car? can i find it in a rattle-can? my cousin does run a shop and he does bodywork, im sure hed do it cheap, but is there some paint "code" i can give him for a mixture to make up? this gray-silver grille looks dreadful compared to the colored one that way it used to be, which is absolutely beautiful IMO.
You can give him the paint code for the exterior of your car. You can try Duplicolor rattle can. I bought one I thought was right, it was a few shades darker. I work in a Body Shop, and I made the bad mistake of not checking how close it actually matched. If you could get a rattle can color to match real close, just scratch the grill with a scotch brite pad, clean it and spray.
1987 Medium Cabernet Red is listed as code 2H (or somtimes 2S, I don't know why). I'm thinking it may not be pre-mixed in a Duplicolor can, so...might need to talk to your cousin if it's not. Yes, it is the same color as the rest of the car.
cool! thanks, i figured youd probably chime in ;)
i just remember when my dad got the car it almost seemed just a *little* darker than the body color. ill post PICS when its done, i cant wait now!
It is body color...
Maybe it looked a "little darker" because of lighting (shadows) caused by the design of the grill itself...or maybe a little extra layer of dirt - because the grill has all those hard to reach places :D