I was looking at this the other day with Stan. A picture would help. The front bumper filler is split by the stainless trim. The bottom (closest to the bumper) is body colour. The portion above the trim which sits under the grille appears to be painted silver on more than one car that we looked at. Under the silver paint is the body colour. It seems that they painted the complete piece body colour then painted the top argent grey like the painted part of the grille.
Zooming in on the brochures, it looks like the Custom convertible is gray and the SD is body colour. The image is too grainy to be certain, and that doesn't necessarily mean that SD = body colour, Custom = gray. It could be Aztec Bronze = body colour, Blue = gray, or ???
Mine is body colour - but it had been repainted before I got it.
I took this photo from another thread. This car was on ebay a few years ago and supposed to be original paint or one repaint. If I remember correctly it is a 396 with 3 speed standard, sold new in Walkerton or Listowel, ON. You can clearly see that this one has the silver paint on the filler panel. Even if it was a repaint would somebody go to the trouble of painting the silver if it was not there initially?
Thats the same car i have pictured above. For sure original with all the stone chips to prove it
So this car has the silver paint on the upper portion of the filler panel and it is a 396 SD. Too bad this car didn't get into the registry. Did anyone get a production date?
If we can't prove it one way or the other which looks better? By the way nice car.
I agree with Paul. There doesn't seem to be any logical commonality so what is right and what is wrong. Because there are so few original paint cars out there it is difficult to say. I scraped paint off a bumper filler off a car at Stan's that was painted red, under the red was silver, under that was red and the bottom coat was the black primer. I went through the registry and looked at every 66 that had a picture and personally I like the silver top colour with every body colour.
i had a few years when i didnt go on ebay, i had no computer and didnt really want one( for personal reasons),for the first year i was here ,i didnt have one at home(believe it or not!)
i borrowed all my friends and families,lol
-- Edited by 68sd on Friday 26th of August 2011 08:03:10 PM