What is the correct argent color on 71 grill

linemup · Post by **linemup** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 7:58 pm

Is the argent paint used on the 71 grill a textured LIGHT argent or is it DARK argent......I am sure it is light but is it textured light? I have some light textured from Totally Auto that I used on my taillight bezels and was wondering if it was the same. It is textured...........thanks all.

Post by **Eric** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 11:20 pm

answered this over on moparts too...here it is again
The paint was light and non-textured. Same paint was used for both satellite and runner/GTX grills (runner/GTX is black and silver, satellite is all silver)

mopar71 · Post by **mopar71** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:33 am

Eric, check out these NOS!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/71-ROADR ... enameZWDVW

Post by **Eric** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:19 pm

what is that guy smoking?!? originals were black plastic, not painted black!!!!

general · Post by **general** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:14 pm

Here's how mine turned out

rr6pak · Post by **rr6pak** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 5:21 am

Hey General, your grill looks gooood from what I see. What kind of paint did you use? My grill is mostly there but the right headlight I will have to paint. If your lucky enough to find a real NOS cool, but for those who cant, then I guess painting them (from a Sat, or GTX) is the only other alternative.

rr6pak · Post by **rr6pak** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 5:25 am

Hey Eric, can you elaborate on "The paint was light and non-textured." on the light part. What kind of silver?

Thanks
Rod

general · Post by **general** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:25 am

The black is not painted, I just cleaned andcleaned and polished and polished and then polished again the grille with Mequiars plastic polish. It probably took me 20 hours to do including the light bezels. There was many years of accumulated grime on the surface. The Mequiars polish is not very aggressive. Then I wet sanded the part that was to be painted. I didn't totally remove the old finish because I figured it would be a good base since its been there 37 yrs. Then I used non-textured light argent paint from Totally Auto.

Post by **Eric** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:30 pm

Rod
I agree with General, the non-textured grill silver from Totally Auto is a very close match for the original.

mopar71 · Post by **mopar71** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:26 pm

Beautiful job there General!