IML: Green to Gold

["Eric" <gearhead@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Looking forward to seeing the rest of the redyed interior once it's done, 
Frank. Thanks for the description of that process with the green. I pictured 
it working something like that with the green base. The buddy seat looks 
great! Looks the way that metallic Y5 should look. Your triple gold coupe 
sign-off reminded me of the one on the list, glad to see more pictures of 
it. My Newport was the same combo of colors.

I need a car with some leather in it to try out the Leatherique process. The 
end results always seem to come out nice. My '64 Crown Coupe was redone in 
vinyl so once I find a replacement set of seat covers, I'm going to try it 
out  ..if I don't come across another leathered and weathered Imperial 
before-hand..

Had no idea GY9 was so controversial, I think I like it all the more now. 
;-)
Thanks for the link.

Eric
Lebanon, Oregon
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From: "Frank Winnips" <frank@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: IML: Green
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
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.

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



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