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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | Please dicipher my trim tag and tell me what is going on......
.........there is little doubt in my knowledge-lacking brain that most of the car was always black, as there is no flaking or damaged paint revealing another color under the black in elsewhere on the car.
But both the trunk floor and inner rear quarters have this light turquoise color evident:
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Location: Northen Virginia | Your plate shows “A” that mean the color was "Black". My 1957 Imperial shows "A" and is all black
Edited by hemidenis 2009-08-07 11:28 AM
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | Thanks, Denis.
I was hoping the car was built all black, as that's one of the things I like about it.
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Location: bishop, ca | That brings up an interesting question: beyond the 'scallop' inset area on the fins, and the thin NY'er side
inset area, were 57-58 CHY's available with two tone motifs (i.e.: on the roof, I suppose)???
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Location: Vancouver, BC | d500neil - 2009-08-07 1:24 PM
That brings up an interesting question: beyond the 'scallop' inset area on the fins, and the thin NY'er side
inset area, were 57-58 CHY's available with two tone motifs (i.e.: on the roof, I suppose)???
Yes. The plain two-tone cars (roof / body) had a two letter paint code, AB, where A was the roof colour and B was the body colour.
Cars with ABC had the AB same as the two tone (roof / body) with the C being the insert colour.
"AB" would be Jet Black roof and Horizon Blue body in 1957 while "ABA" would be Jet Black roof, Horizon Blue body and Jet Black insert.
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Location: Vancouver, BC | Kenny J. - 2009-08-07 8:32 AM
Thanks, Denis.
I was hoping the car was built all black, as that's one of the things I like about it.
K.
Am I correct is surmising that the trunk floor appears to be not painted black? I know many years Chrysler painted trunk floors a different colour, sometimes a grey and many time a spackle paint.
Of course, there is also a possibility someone over the years repainted the floor if the paint had become severely worn.
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | Yes, Bill. Both the trunk floor and inner quarters are a light turquoise. So far, no evidence or collision or rust repair.
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Location: Northen Virginia | May be a change of color order during the production line? |
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | hemidenis - 2009-08-08 3:52 PM
May be a change of color order during the production line?
I was thinking the same thing.
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