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I agree to a point. I would never do a color change on a desirable color just because I didn;t like it! Meaning if you have an original Plumb Crazy/B5 Blue/or Panther Pink car and happen to hate the color please get another car. On the other hand, if it was originally gold or F3 green (as was mine) then change away to YOUR hearts content.

Regarding numbers, if I see a really nice hemicuda and I am admiring it, I WILL look at the tag for the "R" and the paint code for the original color--am I soured if I see BH23G instead of BS23R? No....but I am more impressed with the real car. Thats life. True rarities are admirable.

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Regarding desirable colors.....perhaps gold or F3 green is desirable to an other person, and plumcrazy, panther, or B5 blue is not.......your baseing that decision, based on what the market wants today,....tommorrow's another story


It's funny how people dismiss a well executed "restoration" or "clone", when they find out it has the so-called "wrong" numbers displayed.....I just don't get it......goes to show how easy the "human condition" is easy to "condition"

Right now,...the "numbers gods" would hate me,.....as I'm "altering" an original smblk FM3 rubber bumper, NUMBERS MATCHING hardtop Cuda',,,,into a 440/6 SHAKER equipped Cuda'......painting it black with a white interior.......it's what the customer wants!........first thing to go was the driveline......to the junk yard!......so as you can see, value is in the eye of the owner, so what one man values, another does not?......

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This car is F8 with matching interior and the white stripe across the rump. There are TWO other F8 green 500's here in Arizona, a 440 auto car and the other with a hemi and 4 speed. Getting all three together would be interesting... but very green. I'll probably end up selling it soon after it's done. I've always wanted a wing car and selling this will be the only avenue towards getting one. ( I think B5 with white interior is sounding pretty good )

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B5 blue with white guts would look good
BUT on a C500 go back to F8 (whats on tag)
youll be glad you did
green was very popular with early tree huggers and returning GIs but it took nads to get a sublime car back in the day
if your going to flip the car do it right
if you going to drive it do your on thing
and enjoy

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NEVER change the color on a Charger 500 (or Daytona) . The following for the aero cars is so strict that most people who collect them, want the car to be "correct"



. Now, if you have a 74 Barracuda and don't like the color, that's a whole different story.


WHY?.......would that be a different story.....I'd like to know?



Do you think the owner of this Superbird owner considered the originality of his paint choice?..........thank god he didn't,...the car looks awesome in BLACK!........another case of who cares what everyone else thinks,....I'm doing it my way!

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A lot of ya'll have referrenced different cars, 69 SE, FM3 SB Cuda (reads 318/904 or it wouldn't have gone to a boneyard).







Was a 340/ 727 Auto, been sitting TOO LONG....... so you'd be surprised how many 440 forgedcrank motors,.....and 383 motors, I tossed in the pile,.....just too many laying around.......you'd cringe if I told you bout the half dozen or so 71 cuda grilles that you couldn't give away in the early 80's that I busted up back then and tossed in the trash!....(now those I wish I kept!)..in fact I just tossed about 4 sets of BB heads..........some stuff isn't worth keeping?


....sometimes you have to kull the herd

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NEVER change the color on a Charger 500 (or Daytona) . The following for the aero cars is so strict that most people who collect them, want the car to be "correct"



. Now, if you have a 74 Barracuda and don't like the color, that's a whole different story.


WHY?.......would that be a different story.....I'd like to know?



Do you think the owner of this Superbird owner considered the originality of his paint choice?..........thank god he didn't,...the car looks awesome in BLACK!........another case of who cares what everyone else thinks,....I'm doing it my way!

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Let's look at it this way, if you are going to alter or "screw something up" it's ALWAYS best to do it with something of much less value .
If you decided to install a 460 Ford engine in your Mopar,and the interior from a 73 Gran Torino because YOU like Ford engines and the look of the Ford interior, which would be a better car to do it with. A 74 Charger 318 car,
or a 70 Charger R/T SE 440 six pack sunroof car ?
See where I am going with this ?
If you just MUST screw something up, it's ALWAYS best to do it to a car of much lesser value.
Like it or not, certain cars are pure collectables now. Nobody is going to own their car forever, and at some point , even if you don't sell, your widow or children will . Don't you want the car to sell for what it should , instead of much less, because it has to be taken totally apart and re-pained inside and out to be correct ? Now it doesn't really matter if you change the original color on your FF8 70 coronet
500 318 car , because the car is only going to be worth X dollars no matter what you do . However, if you have a 70 Coronet R/T convertible 4-speed
4.10 dana , ramcharger hood, FF8, your best bet is to keep it FF8 . Would it look good EK2 Go Mango with white interior, you damn right it would! But, certain cars should be preserved as they were built . That's the way I feel about it .
I remember seeing a '69 GTX convertible , factory
triple black car, that was re-painted Limelight FJ5 at a show some years back . I think he hurt the value "a lil bit" , but I guess all that matters is that the current owner likes it .
As far as the black Superbird, If I were in the market to buy a bird, this would certainly not be
on my list of possible buys, unless the price was heavily discounted . Does it look good in black, sure. Does the incorrect paint hurt the value, you bet it does. There will be some buyers who would like it because it looks "cool" and "different" but many more will pass because it is not correct . That's just the way it is.
I don't make the rules of human nature when they apply to buying/selling collectables .
People don't want to buy a victorian home built in 1890 if some goober has altered the original appearance by painting it pink and purple , no matter how "cool" the owner thought it would look.
What else can I say, We just don't see eye to eye on this subject .
I will say this . IF someone truely doesn't give a damn about respecting their medium or high dollar collectable car for what it is ,
and does not mind lowering the cars value ,then by all means , do whatever you want to it. It is your car to do with as you please, even if that means leaving it outside with the windows down for 10 years .
Do as you please.


Greg

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I thought you were referring to a recent alteration, but I am surprised there was ever a time to throw out a 340 even one of the later cast crank ones. 383s I could see as they were common enough and at a time even a steel crank 440. Next time you need to throw out some 906 BB heads I need a few extra sets.

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Do you think the owner of this Superbird owner considered the originality of his paint choice?..........thank god he didn't,...the car looks awesome in BLACK!........another case of who cares what everyone else thinks,....I'm doing it my way!

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Dude, don't change the color.

Restore the Charger to the correct paint, sell it, and then buy one the color you want.

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