'60 Air Cleaner Colors

[kenyon wills <imperialist60@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gold is correct for 1960.
Those other guys were all wet.

The tip about Mopar performance having the Golden Lion
paint was a good one.  I used Testors model paint (in
the teeny can) to do it and it looked 99% accurate.

Remember Testors spray paint for hard to find colors. 
Cheap, too.  Did not flake under heat of engine
compartment.




--- Henry Hopkins <hhrp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, thanks, John.  I never really believed all
> those folks who said that, yes, even the air cleaner
> was black in '60.  I raised the question back in '98
> and received several responses that said it had to
> be black.  So who is right?  I'm going to paint the
> air cleaner gold on the 60 I am restoring in the
> next year and this time I will say I got it from the
> IML that gold was the color.  Anyway, gold it will
> be as I like that color.  Black was very boring.
> 
> Appreciate your response.  How about the rest of the
> folks??? What color is correct for 60 air cleaners. 
> Do we agree with John and with me??
> 
> Thanks, Henry Hopkins
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: John M Brauninger 
>   To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 9:09 PM
>   Subject: Re: IML: '60 Air Cleaner Colors
> 
> 
>   Henry,
> 
>   The correct color for '59-'61 air cleaners is
> Golden Lion gold (you can get this factory color in
> rattle cans from Mopar Performance dealers).  '62s
> used the same air cleaner but they were black.  '63s
> used a different, larger air cleaner also black.
> 
>   John B.
> 
>   On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 23:06:53 -0800 "Henry Hopkins"
> <hhrp@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>      
> 
>     And, a question.  When I was restoring my 60
> Imperial convertible and inquired about the interior
> engine colors, what I got was BLACK and yes, it is
> boring and a gold air cleaner or a little silver
> here and there would be nice, but no, for 60, black,
> all black and that's that.  So, while I like the
> gold air cleaner on the 60 convertible as shown,
> it's not correct according to club experts who
> answered my inquiries years ago--19997, 1998
> 
>     Henry Hopkins
> 
> 
> 


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Kenyon Wills
6o LeBaron - America's Most Carefully Built Car 
73 LeBaron - Long Low & Luxurious

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