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GALLERY 3
Building My GTX Cont.
Paint time
At last we are ready to paint the car . As I was going to paint it myself
and did not have access to a booth we used acrylic laquer rather than the newer 2 pack paints.
The reasons for this were that the acrylic is a lot less toxic , easier to correct mistakes
and touch up later .
Colour choice was difficult . We had already decided that we were not going to repaint
in the original amber sherwood metalic as that was just too bland . It had to be green as
the interior is green . I had a Mopar Action magazine with a Sassey Grass Green GTX on the cover
and decided that was the colour we needed , with a bit of encouragement from my friend and fellow
Mopar man ,John Reid.
A long search for a paint formula followed without success . Then I was
lucky enough to be sent a formula that had been made up in New Zealand . We had
a liter mixed and it was pretty good but just a little muddy.
The colour on the car is loosely based on that paint but is a custom mix
and a lot cleaner .
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