MOPAR VIRGIN's 1968 Barracuda Convertible RestoMod Journey
I wish I had more photos of the process and progress as the project moved along, but the shop owner is really old-school (e.g. he does not have an email account, mobile phone or digital camera). Plus, the half-year we live in the PacNW our house is 60miles from the shop, so we don't get many opportunities to just "stop-in". That said, with the body work about to be completed, we were getting pressure to make a color decision.
This was wearing on my wife and I for months. We did not have any firm direction where we wanted to go with it. Seeing the deep blue notchback, we knew that was always the "safe option". I have always been partial to greens, and I had a specific vision of a yellow-gold in my head that could have gone well with a harringbone/houndstooth cloth seat covering. And then there was our Mopar friend that kept egging us on to go with Panther Pink, but I was not interested in a single-stage paint scheme, and ... this is a RestoMod project vision, not a restoration.
So mocked-up $400 in custom paint colors to see what all these options looked like. The pink is no Panther Pink (more on that in a moment) ...
I wish I had more photos of the process and progress as the project moved along, but the shop owner is really old-school (e.g. he does not have an email account, mobile phone or digital camera). Plus, the half-year we live in the PacNW our house is 60miles from the shop, so we don't get many opportunities to just "stop-in". That said, with the body work about to be completed, we were getting pressure to make a color decision.
This was wearing on my wife and I for months. We did not have any firm direction where we wanted to go with it. Seeing the deep blue notchback, we knew that was always the "safe option". I have always been partial to greens, and I had a specific vision of a yellow-gold in my head that could have gone well with a harringbone/houndstooth cloth seat covering. And then there was our Mopar friend that kept egging us on to go with Panther Pink, but I was not interested in a single-stage paint scheme, and ... this is a RestoMod project vision, not a restoration.
So mocked-up $400 in custom paint colors to see what all these options looked like. The pink is no Panther Pink (more on that in a moment) ...