Got my Marti Report today.

The picture of the tire pressure sticker, looks like it has paint on the edges, or is that the sticker peeling?

 

ive got

an nos grabber hood with the holes for the letters,so im guessin they came with the letters a bit earlier.

 

Are those the origional fenders? Does the paint look different in the rear under the trim also? Intresting discoveries..

 

The sticker is peeling, but I took a look at my door tag and there's another color around it where the top layer of paint pealed off.
So Now I'm thinking it was repainted

Under the drip rail it was another color. The color that the engine bay is.






It's the top color in this pic, under that color there's the 3Q pastel blue. It has chips in it, but there doesn't seem to be another color under there.
Here's some pictures of when I started doing body work on it. There doesn't seem to be a blue underneath:




The body trim looked like this when I removed it:




As far as I know they're the original fenders. It's a 4 owner car. Mr. Leroy Pickett owned it from new in Arizona then drag raced in in the 70s(when I got the car it still had the ported/milled 289 heads, crane cam, edelbrock intake and holley carb that he installed).

In the 80s he moved out to California and ended up being incarcerated, he needed bail money so he sold the car to my uncle for $500 in 89(also the year I was born). The next year my uncle ended up owing my father money so he transferred the car over to him to settle the debt. My dad used it from 90-92. Then it sat in my grandmothers yard till 2004 when she passed away we moved into her house and that's when I got the car. Well actually my dad told me it was mine back in 1995, but I was 6 and didn't even touch the car till we actually moved there in 2004 when I was 15.

I asked my dad and my uncle and both of them don't recall ever painting the car. So if it was painted it was by the original owner/dealer.

 

Took a closer look at the trunk sticker and now I can definitely tell it was resprayed at one point.





Whoever did the re-spray did a pretty good job on it by adding the correct pinstripes, masking up the decals and using an OE color.

I think only a dealer would go trough all that trouble.

 

I would say it's been repainted at some point, but someone really went to the extreme.
Unless you own the car from day 1, anything could have happened to it somewhere along the line....

 

Yup, I tired tracking down the original owner once. But didn't get no where.

Under the rear seat I found his Wife's or Sister's welfare card with an address.
I sent a letter with my phone number, but I never got a reply or a call.

The card was issued back in the 70s, so it was a long shot anyways.

 

They ran out of 3M at the factory and introduced the new color 3Q on this car

 

3M is a pretty neat color, but it's getting SN Sonic Blue now



Maybe in 30 years I'll restore it back to the OE specs.

Actually if you look at P3 "Windveil Blue" it sorta looks like 3M.

 

If the fender didn't have the dark blue, it's probably been in some sorta accident, and maybe when it was fixed, they re painted the entire car...??...
But that's one hell of a color change, to do the inside of the engine compartment, door jambs, and trunk, probably, but not usually the engine compartment.. it would be neat to know the history.

 

Yes...car is definitly a repaint. Looks like the original color was the same original color of my blue 4-door. My 1976 station wagon was also that same color. Ford had a bad problem of that color "flaking" and "peeling" off.....so a lot of those cars have been repainted over the years.

 

Looking at that pic of Craig's wagon, it looks like the same color that my Dad's 67 Custom 500 was when he bought it new in the fall of 66. IIRC, it was called "Brittany Blue". The paint never matched, and was starting to peel the day he brought it home! The dealer repainted the trunk lid I know two or three times before they got it to match. The factory paint only lasted 5-6 years before it started peeling again. He went with the sky or baby blue then. Never had any more problems with it, it still looked good when he traded it in in 78 on a new baby or sky blue Monarch.