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The new mats are very nice though. I do like the fleck effect. Inside my panel van had been done. You would have to be confident doing a mat but then I suppose if it went wrong you could wipe it off quickly and have another go.


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Bump jonty


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SunnyTim wrote:Flecked the floor mats today they came up nice. Sorry photos not great

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Was that a factory option Tim?


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Lookinggood Tim.

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SunnyTim wrote:

FJWALLY wrote:

SunnyTim wrote:Flecked the floor mats today they came up nice. Sorry photos not great

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Was that a factory option Tim?


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All FB specials had flecked floormats, the colour matched the trim combo. This was carried through the EK standards - my pink EK 215 has red flecked mats, your ute would have also originally

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Sorry for hijack. 1986 I Had a red fleck Tuscany yellow EK215 with original mat but it was falling apart. I remember it being plain black. Being a young idiot I ripped it out and replaced with black carpet red motor Aussie four speed tunnel cut etc. HX buckets, oh dear.


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SunnyTim wrote:

FJWALLY wrote:

SunnyTim wrote:Flecked the floor mats today they came up nice. Sorry photos not great

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Was that a factory option Tim?


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All FB specials had flecked floormats, the colour matched the trim combo. This was carried through the EK standards - my pink EK 215 has red flecked mats, your ute would have also originally

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What made my ute a special? Just having chrome and guard spears?


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No such thing rob

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Reckon you know what you are doing


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Paint looks great and I like what you did with the mats and the fleck. If I can’t save my originals with red fleck I might give your method a try. Did you use a special paint to stick to the rubber?


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This might be a stupid question , but why wouldnt you paint the plenum and the pillars when you were painting , say , the roof ??? I know you have painted heaps of cars and obviously you know what you are doing - apart from being an EK fan rather than the far superior FB .................

SunnyTim wrote: Mon Aug 31, 2020 9:45 pm

Blacky wrote:This might be a stupid question , but why wouldnt you paint the plenum and the pillars when you were painting , say , the roof ??? I know you have painted heaps of cars and obviously you know what you are doing - apart from being an EK fan rather than the far superior FB .................

I just got sick of doing prep and this piece sucked. Painting the car gave me the motivation to finish the last piece. I had done the prep on the edges near the guards so no risk of harming fresh paint.....

OH AND IF IT WAS AN EK THE PLENUM WOULD HAVE BEEN 20 TIMES EASIER TO PREP!

I will send you some tissues

Worth the extra work imho. What about the chrome bits? I assume you are leaving vent cover in place.


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Mmmm, EK plenum cover, the second ugliest part of the car, looks like the unsuccessful waterfall grill in the AU Falcon, yuck! C'mon Tim, you know the FB is the nice one, you've just got more EKs.

Tim, when you are bare metal painting, does the inside of the roof gutters (where the roof joins them) need a run of seam sealer or will just painting them suffice?


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