Re: IML: Green

["Frank Winnips" <frank@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric,

Yeah, that tawny gold must be quite hard to apply correctly. Here's a link 
to a thread at Moparts about some GY9 problems.
http://www.tinyurl.com/2gw9n8
Black is going to be much easier.

The Y5 gold interior also has a kind of greenish undertone btw. I'm 
currently redoing my interior with Leatherique dye. For Y5 it is actaully a 
2 stage process that starts with a rather unappealing army green base with a 
transparant gold glaze applied on top. The end result is really quite 
stricking!
My buddy seat before/after:
http://www.dickroyale.com/log/wp-content/photos/armsteun02.jpg
http://www.dickroyale.com/log/wp-content/photos/armsteun04.jpg
I'm waiting for some warm dry days now to finish the rest of my seats.

Kenyon, changing the color of your interior is not that difficult btw. If 
you wanna go with black, try SEM for the vinyl.

Btw. that gold beauty is actually my car :-). Making a good set of pictures 
for the IML-site is still on my todo list......
For the time being, here are some slightly better ones:
http://www.dickroyale.com/log/wp-content/photos/ophetpad03.jpg
http://www.dickroyale.com/log/wp-content/photos/ophetpad01.jpg
http://www.dickroyale.com/log/wp-content/photos/enginebay04.jpg

Cheers,
Frank '72 coupe (GY8 / MRY5 / V1Y)
New Zealand

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric" <gearhead@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 7:44 PM
Subject: IML: Green


> Ok, this conversation has intersected a couple of my own ideas on the
> subject that I, until now, have yet to find an audience for, so here goes
> y'all.
>
> Frank, I took a liking to that weird brown/green Y9 Tawny Gold Metallic
> when I had my Y8 Gold Leaf Metallic '72 Newport Custom sedan. Thanks for
> bringing it to mind and for those links. It's a really complicated color
> being neither really green nor exactly brown making it akin to earth
> colors in nature and thus it goes with the organic 70's Mopars really
> well. However it may sound to the contrary, I swear I've never taken an
> interior decorating course in my life, though I did ace all my art closses
> in school so I'll own up to some minor artsy-fartsy credentials.
>
> My Newport had the same Y5 gold interior as this beauty of a '72 coupe,
> http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1972/Gold/
> I like the way the dark green/gold that Y9 goes with that lighter Y5
> metallic gold interior behind the green tinted glass. It's pretty much the
> light and dark versions of the same green/gold hue, which I'm sure was the
> idea when they were thunking it out. Not so sure how it would go with
> Kenyon's green interior but I don't have to look at it so....
>
> ...So, Kenyon, I think your green interior is probably the most rare of
> the 6 color choices for the leather bucket option coupes. Yes, this is
> probably for good reason, but more rare than the blue and white
> leather -I'm sure, and probably more rare than the black and tan colors -I
> have an idea. If you need just one more reason to appreciate it, it's a
> rare one..
>
> Infact, I've always liked the F3 Amber Sherwood Metallic on your coupe
> with the white top. The 19 feet of light green goes ok on the sportiness
> of 19 feet of coupe. Also, I kind of like the green interior. I think it
> is pretty nifty with the brown wood decals and black trim items. Maybe you
> should just sell me your coupe and be done with it!   ;-)
>
> I realize you were a bit tongue in cheek when you asked what goes with
> your green interior, but I'll take it as a serious topic. You could go
> with the dark green of F7 Sherwood Green Metallic and put on a dark green
> vinyl top so that the green leather has something to match up with. Being
> all dark green would give you that heaviness of contrasting light
> reflections that the much airbrushed brochure pictures allude to.
>
> Or, you could go with the maligned non-metallic Forest Service Green of
> the '73 model year, and strap a tree trunk down as your console with some
> Power Wagon badges carved into it. Ok, maybe that's not the ambience
> you're going for but you see how much worse it could be. If you want
> stately, dark, conservativeness, I'd go with black on your 4dr Marge car
> and put a black top on it and darkly tint the glass..
>
> I say, "Embrace the green. Love the green. Be the green", but advice is
> worth every penny paid.
>
> Now, I understand about dark colors and stateliness and all that falderal
> but you tell me that this isn't a beautiful Imperial in B5 True Blue
> Metallic, http://adcache.collectorcartraderonline.com/10/3/6/87620836.htm
>
> Eric
> Lebanon, Oregon.
> __________________________________________________________________
> From: "Frank Winnips" <frank@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: IML: Green cars 2
> K.
> What about tawny gold metallic, GY9? I think that's one of the coolest
> colors offered in '72 because of that weird brown/green mix. Yet it's very
> classy and sooo 70's. And it would go quite well with the green seats.
> http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/upload2/3277495-100_2134.JPG
> http://members.cox.net/nsciortino41/page6.htm
> Frank
> '72 coupe (triple gold)
>
>
>
>
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