Got to playin’ round with painting the raised rib on the radio/ash/glovebox grill today. As we all know, the raised ribs are a lighter color shade than the general dash/interior color, right! I needed to tape off the recessed rib area which is the same shade as the dash and tried slicing some masking tape into strips but just wasn’t getting as fine of an edge as I wanted. Any irregularity stands out like a sore thumb with the uniform pattern that the grill presents so all of the lines have to be parallel and sharp. I was digging through the tape drawer and ran across an open envelope of “Scotch 3m Fine Line” tape that was left over from when I painted the trim on my Pitts. Now that was back around 1982 and every time I opened that drawer and saw all that old tape I said, self you gotta pitch out all that old tape and make some room. I am a horder but down deep I knew that any tape that had been laying around for a quarter of a century surely had to be dried up years ago. But today I when I pulled off a piece before trying for that two pointer, it was just as fresh as it was when I opened it 25 years ago, yep, still sticky and pliable.
So I just posted one picture of the ash try grill with it’s lighter raised ribs. No big thing but we were discussing this a few days ago. The whole dash grill will be trimmed this way when I finally get around to it. I used an original glove box to match up the shades as well as I could just to see how it should look.
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2190807300098611668ufgBPc Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
