Today we went to Alex’s shop to pick up various parts that have been removed while they are doing their work. Lately I’ve been spending quite a bit of time assessing what we have as far as body and interior parts go. I’ve been avoiding this for a long time. I didn’t want to face the reality that I may not find many of these parts. There are a lot of parts that are in pretty bad shape. Really beat up and broken pieces sell on EBay for ridiculous amounts of money. It’s nuts. So I wanted to get everything together including what is at Alex’s and figure out exactly what I need.
It was good to see those guys. They have been really busy and haven’t been working on the truck lately but I think they may have more times as we get into the holidays. There are two things we still need to resolve. One is the body trim. The old body trim is in really bad shape and a couple of pieces are completely unusable. So my options are either have them fill in the holes on the body where the trim mounts or try to fashion some trim on my own. I was thinking that strips of ebony might look ok but I’m not sure if that is a great idea. I need decide on this soon so they can move forward. The second thing is the paint color. Alex has shot a couple of samples for us but were still undecided on the final color. One sample is a nice deep red but maybe a little too purple for me. For the other sample, Alex matched the paint on the underside of the truck thinking it was less faded but that sample is pretty orange. There are two variants of the 391 code, one uses some yellow and the other some light yellow. The plan it to compare those and decide. The slide below compares Alex’s samples to pictures and swatches seen online but it is tough to really compare to colors this way mainly I think because the lighting is different in each case.
