71 Cuda Paint Job Project
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08/19/24 12:08 PM
08/19/24 12:08 PM
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Lifetime Family friend has acquired a 71 Big Block 4spd Cuda. The owner will be following this thread and he may add the backstory and his association with it. But my part is to take a mostly stripped car and put it into color. The car is pretty solid, has had some patches installed in the firewall, the driver front & rear floors, partial lower rear quarters, and a poorly made patch in the trunk floor. The body looks pretty straight as it has been in and out of prior paint jobs at least twice. I am going to make sure it is done right and actually finished this time. The first pic is the condition it was in 07 and it was disassembled February 2011 by the previous owner, The next are how I received it. there is no Fender Tag nor Build Sheet so IMO it is an open slate for building the way he would have ordered it, had he had the opportunity. From investigation the car was factory B3, The familiar look was in a medium blue (close but not B5) the color has not yet been determined but leaning towards as it came from Ma Mopar. Thoughts?
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Re: 71 Cuda Paint Job Project
[Re: modelmakerinc]
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08/19/24 02:59 PM
08/19/24 02:59 PM
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Nice!
Seems like alot of the best deals out there have always been on abandoned projects as it once was. You guys will get it done for sure!
Rich H.
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Re: 71 Cuda Paint Job Project
[Re: modelmakerinc]
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08/26/24 07:58 AM
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The interior floors will get a light wire brush to remove the loose stuff, Then raptor liner for some sound deadening and give it a uniform look.
Last edited by modelmakerinc; 08/26/24 08:09 AM.
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Re: 71 Cuda Paint Job Project
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08/27/24 10:56 AM
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Yes Thanks my habit is to refer the light metallic blue as B3. The color code is B2 Glacial Blue. However I have had both (B2 B3) mixed at different times mixed by different shops and different lines of paint and they are effectively the same color. Color Chip books can look a little different due to lighting, and I have paint color discussions over several MoPar colors that through the years the color stayed the same but the code and name changed. And we are dealing with Base Clear instead of single stage paints so there adds some differences in color tones.
I had made hundreds of these Car-icatures in every color that was available. and my Fury was painted in B2,B3 or DD1 for 66 Light Blue Poly
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