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Old Jan 26, 2021 | 05:51 PM
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Navy gray... lol
 
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Old Jan 26, 2021 | 07:21 PM
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Ya that original paint on the firewall sure looks like Navy gray...I was in the Marine Corps Reserve and the corpsman were Navy guys
plus we often trained around Navy bases and were even out at sea for a week or two every summer..so I saw a lot of the Navy gray
its the same or nearly the same as they painted their ships..or too my semi color blind eyes.. it looked the same to me.
 
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Old Jan 26, 2021 | 08:56 PM
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I scuffed the paint down in an inconspicuous spot and yep, looks like Navy Gray, then someone painted it Lincoln Jade, and then finally yellow. All those layers of paint are probably one of the reasons it's so solid for having sat abandoned for 30 years.

Also found this at the same place (it even has an old Columbia Overdrive in it!)
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Old Jan 26, 2021 | 09:53 PM
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Nice coupe. I suspected you would find original color same as inside glove box door. People often spray outside only.
 
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Old Apr 18, 2021 | 01:53 AM
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I know it's an older discussion, but to comment on the glove box vs the door tag thing, since June is actually pretty late in the "normal" production run, it would be easy to surmise that (like you suspect) it was a running change and if those that say '58's should be on the door are correct, then maybe it was just on earlier build trucks. Maybe Tomget can add what month his '58 was built in?
Even back then the standard end-of-model production was near August. This way they could get the new stuff out for the end of the year to be ready for the next. It's not etched in stone, and some model years run late, some start early (some '72 Broncos for example were built right up until October of '72) but I don't have any data for anything unusual happening in '58 to make that claim. Just that it's plausible enough.

Did you drag it out and start working on it?

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