<VV> Re: Original color or not? OR The Great Color Debate

[Tony Underwood]

At 09:06 hours 11/13/2004 -0500, Gary Swiatowy wrote:
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>About 12 years ago, a friend of mine was restoring a 68 Road Runner, a real
>basket case rot box.   

There's no such thing, if it was a genuine Roadrunner.    

It was an "extensive restoration project".    


>He did do an excellent job though even putting the car
>in a rotator. He asked me if I thought he should paint the car original,
>which was dark green with green interior, and green vinyl top. He was   

Vinyl roof on a '68...?   Humm...  scarce.  


>worried about keeping the value of the car up. I told him to paint it any
>color he wanted because he would own it forever, as he had so much into it
>he would never bwe able to sell it. He painted the car black with a black
>interior, no vinyl top. It came out flawless..............last summer a guy
>showed up at his house who had been trying to buy the car. With $30,000 in
>cash. ..................The car sold, and he bought another project.     

THAT is why there's no such thing as a rotbox '68 Roadrunner...    

Paint it whatever you like.   



tony..