Delete Reply #420 – April 17, 2010, 07:20:22 AM I kinda like C and F, the slotted backup likes cool.:D Quote Selected
Delete Reply #422 – April 17, 2010, 10:39:41 AM I kind of like F but with the dark areas body color. Quote Selected
Delete Reply #424 – April 17, 2010, 11:39:38 AM C isn't too bad, you could even lengthen the slots since all you need is SOMETHING to break up that white panel. Quote Selected
Delete Reply #426 – April 17, 2010, 05:46:35 PM My dad has a 2005 T-bird and the white-face gauges with the chrome trim definitely set off the car. The blue needles are illuminated at night. The numbers light up yellow-white, standard incandescent color. They might look better if they lit up the same blue as the needles, but I'm not sure. Quote Selected
Delete Reply #428 – April 18, 2010, 12:13:27 AM Quote from: Quietleaf;318656My dad has a 2005 T-bird and the white-face gauges with the chrome trim definitely set off the car. The blue needles are illuminated at night. The numbers light up yellow-white, standard incandescent color. They might look better if they lit up the same blue as the needles, but I'm not sure.They would look better lit up blue but I bet that 05 Tbird cluster is using LED's... I am not sure.I painted my needles Thunderbird blue and they have a nice glow. The gauge faces on mine light up green-blue because of the incadescent lighting but I will be installing blue LED's in them soon. I already tested it out with one I have and they look nice, just light the blue MyColor choice I use all the time on my Mustang. Quote Selected
Delete Reply #429 – April 18, 2010, 12:43:14 AM Thanks for the input from you all about the taillamps! I am going to go with "C". I like the full width look like classic Tbirds used and painting the backup lamps so they will look smaller will accomplish the look I want. Plus they will be the same style that 89-97 Tbirds used. I have already done the triple round theme on my 85 and I just like the full red look much better these days. Plus this set of lamps lights up much fuller than the 83-84 ones, especially since I have a new coat of chrome paint on the inside of the housings. The red looks nicer against the black. Not so much a fan of too much black everywhere. I gotta have some bling. Quote Selected
Delete Reply #431 – April 19, 2010, 10:25:57 PM So I was gonna work on the back-up lamp lens modification today but I ended up replacing a cracked shower basin in the master bath. I did however decided to go with a Mustang airbag cover that was split. Simple fix using foil tape to hold it back together. That foil tape sticks like hell! The Mustang airbag cover fits nicer and retains a Ford OEM look with the curvature made into it. I plan to cover that Mustang airbag cover in vinyl because there is no way to get rid of the Mustang script unless I sand the entire cover until it no longer has surface grain. Speaking of foil tape I forgot to mention that 1985-86 Tbird taillamps will fit into the 83-84 with no modification to the rear body panel. The only thing I had to do was put foil tape over the oblong center hole where the back-up lamp was located in the center of the original taillamps. This is just to keep water from getting in the trunk. On 85-86 models the center hole is smaller and round. All the mounting studs go through the rear body panel in the same exact places the original ones did.Look closely at the picture of the 1960 Tbird interior in my signature photo collage... I have a plan to paint the instrument cluster bezel and airbag cover silver to lend the aluminum trim look that the 1960 Tbird has.I am going all over the place in my mind about interior color combinations. I am afraid to paint the console right now because I may change the lower dash to black. I still have the gray seats, but I would so like a predominately black interior with contrasting white seat and door trim panel inserts. Quote Selected
Delete Reply #433 – April 20, 2010, 12:07:28 AM Oh yeah and I knew that I had seen a three spoke wheel in a Thunderbird somewhere that reminded me of the 85-86 Mustang one but couldn't remember where. Then I stumbled accross the 2000Thunderbird Concept Show Car which had a different wheel than the Lincoln LS one that was used for production. Quote Selected
Delete Reply #434 – April 20, 2010, 12:08:38 AM I dont like the white piping personaly Quote Selected
Topic: Delete (Read 63830 times)
previous topic - next topic
