Guys,
Speedy's doors look off color-see pic. He is a CMC child--is this something common. Both doors are the same color but show no evidence of a repaint. What gives--any fix? Sure do not match the body and I think I just saw a blue one online with the same issue.
David
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Might be from a different batch if they're gelcoat and not painted. Doors, trunk and engine lids are usually cast in different molds than the bodies.
Yeah, that is noticeable. What Nolan sad- different gelcoat batch is the only thing I can think of as well. Or maybe your doors got caught in the middle of a color change?
I would be interested to know where in the production batch your car was. In my experience CMC started to really cut corners towards the end of production. If you run your hand under the lip of the back fenders, does the body thickness vary greatly?
-=theron
I've not seen that happen to a gel coat CMC. Red ones fade to pink but it can be wet sanded/polished back to red and is uniform. Can you tell if doors or body are original gel coat? Like in frunk or door edges? My guess is doors were painted.
CMC only offered 9 gel coat colors. In your tone, they had beige, white and primrose yellow. Your's look to be beige. The tree above and grey were standard colors. Other colors were $150 extra.
I'd try to get the doors painted to match body.
Anyone know the paint codes--paint manufacture etc etc. Car is in storage due to come out soon. Due to PO passing I received zero information with car. I do have a serial number plate with car. I believe it was 1988 build
With all the years I think a good painter with a colorimeter would be able to find and mix up a test batch then you can paint a seperate sample and compare it to the rest of the body.
I wonder if it might be worthwhile to have the whole body polished up at first professionally the get the best match possible to an unfaded paint.
