Re: Correct paint - Duster sharktooth grille ?
[Re: 79machocharger]
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01/14/08 09:58 PM
01/14/08 09:58 PM
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Steve340
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Original paint. No black, only silver. The black is the plastic color.
Last edited by Steve340; 01/14/08 09:59 PM.
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Re: Correct paint - Duster sharktooth grille ?
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01/16/08 09:34 AM
01/16/08 09:34 AM
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79machocharger
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Are you talking about this spot, if so they were black.
Last edited by 79machocharger; 01/16/08 09:38 AM.
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Re: Correct paint - Duster sharktooth grille ?
[Re: topside]
#51248
03/17/08 11:03 PM
03/17/08 11:03 PM
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Anonymous
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I too am restoring a shark tooth, and have some questions:
First, have you ever seen a sharktooth made in green or non-black colors that was original?
The reason I ask it that my girlfriends 71 340 had an OEM grille, black plastic. The car had a boo boo, and we searched for a new grille\
Long story, but I bought a rusted out heap of a 70 just for the sharktooth grille. Looking at the back of this one, it appears to be made from dull green plastic.
I also noticed that her black plastic grille had none of the usual cracks or stress marks I see on originals, and this green one. Her car was ordered mid 70, so it was an early 71 car. It has roughly 400,xxx miles on it, with no signs of cracks or anything...other than what happened in the accident
I will try to get some pics, thanks for the good help!!!!
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Re: Correct paint - Duster sharktooth grille ?
[Re: rrunner]
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03/18/08 05:24 PM
03/18/08 05:24 PM
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ScottSmith_Harms
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topside, the paint details Macho detailed are correct per one of my two used grilles and my one NOS one, one used is from a 72 Twister, one is from a 71 340 Duster, both appear identical at a glance. The black areas on two are natural as molded black ABS plastic, the silver is a fine metallic smooth finish with no texture and no noticable gloss "dull satin" would be a good description. However.....One of the used grilles was molded in gray ABS plastic and has the black areas painted black rather than bare plastic. I'll take some pictures of both and post them. All of the grilles were masked with a fixture that allowed some light over spray (no sharp edges or build up on transitions between slver and black, silver fogged under/beyond the mask in many transistional areas). 71 & 72 Marker lamp wire pig tails were slightly different but interchange freely, most won't know one from the other but they are unique. Notice how the grille above has one headlight bezel with an adjuster screw relief and one side without? I've never seen an 1970 with the relief style so I'm assuming that they started adding the feature during 71 production sometime, I've seen original 71's with one side of each, with both sides reliefed, and some with no reliefs. It was a pig in a poke as to what cars got which, probably a transition that took place due to an engineering change during 1971 production, one of the original Twisters I recently had was built in June of 1971 and had one of each.
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