Re: Richter's '53 Caribbean

Posted by Richter12x2 On 2014/5/12 22:06:27
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the dashes were painted to match the selected the color scheme of the car, so some dashes were outside body color and some were not, the blue, green and maroon cars had the same color dashes as the exteriors, the Sahara sand cars had black dashes and the black cars had matadoor maroon dashes

This is awesome information, thanks! That means even if my (obviously repainted) black dash were original, I'd likely have had a Sahara Sand car.

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I still have not confirmed the existence of true factory or dealer delivered medium blue, red, or ivory cars which are rumored or claimed to have been produced, the orange car on the west coast is a mid 1950's repaint. Every time i ask to see the door post tag the color codes do not check out or have been painted over etc... same story with the build sheets hidden near the glove compartments


The title/registration that came with mine listed it as red, but not only have I not seen anything to support it being red originally, I can't even find a trace of red PERIOD. It also occurred to me that with the lack of imagination of the state registration system, they likely would have called Matador Maroon red as well, which is why I was leaning toward that color on the respray.

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