I noticed from the fantastic contemporaneous factory colour photo on the
front of the current magazine that the gold Delorean had a very highly
polished/laquered rear fascia (and presumably the front was the same) - at
least it did at that point in it's production. It was in gold, of
course....
Colm
-----Original Message-----
From: jamesrguk [mailto:James_rg@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 18 July 2004 21:20
To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [doc] Re: Front fascia
Wes,
Well, I am a bit tight on money at the mo, what with the cost of the
re-trim, so I will probably go for the Mercedes silver, we have just
had our merc boot lid re-sprayed and I have the colour details.
That's close enought for me, I am not too worried about complete
originality on my car.
The last time I did them I used a slightly darker grey and didn't
lacquer them, but despit that they looked great for 2 years, with no
crazing etc...
Unfortunalty when cleaning the car at work one day, I picked up the
wrong cleaner and accidently used G101 Truck Wash (used for de-
greasing the 5th wheel on tractor units)........whoops.
Anyway the total cost of re-painting them was about £20 including
paint, primer & wet'n'dry paper & masking tape., so I am going to
give them annouth bash.
Thanks for all the advice, I will let you know how I get on :-)
James
--- In doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxx> wrote:
> Hi James
>
> We've started sending "our" fascias to a body shop who've done a
> fantastic job of establishing a process that works on the
DeLorean's
> fascias. One thing's for sure though, any old solvent-based paints
cause
> no end of problems. The colour they use is indeed a mercedes
shade, not
> sure which it is, but they also apply a matt lacquer mixed with
some
> special formulation for a non-crackable surface.... I don't
pretend to
> understand it myself, but I've had mine done and couldn't be
happier.
>
> FYI it's £250 for each fascia, should anyone want us to do theirs.
This
> excludes the time it takes to remove and replace them
>
> Martin
>
> jamesrguk wrote:
>
> > Westley,
> >
> > I am in the middle of re-painting my fascias, I have rubbed them
> > down and used a plastic etching primer. Do you know what colour
to
> > use.
> >
> > I resprayed mine a couple of years ago in a darker colour but
had a
> > small accident with some chemicals a few months ago and so have
> > decided to redo them, but I have nothing to compair the colour
to.
> >
> > I think it may actually be the same silver colour to my mums 1979
> > mercedes.
> >
> > Also if you could tell me where to get it that would be great too
> >
> > cheers
> >
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> >
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