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On the 63, All the other buttons are white.
John
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Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 8:14
AM
Subject: IML: Transmission Push Button
Colors '61 '63
I haven't seen this topic discussed yet, so here we go.
Maybe it will
make its way to the technical pages.
I have a 1961
Imperial custom and a 1963 Crown convertible. At
different times,
I've removed the transmission push-buttons and put them
back. The
'61 was a couple of years ago, but the '63 was last night.
On both
cars, I discovered if I pulled hard enough, worked them back &
forth,
finagled, etc., I could work the chrome piece off the end of the
lucite
(is that what it is?) buttons, in order to better clean. I now
have
some observations and a question. And I'll loosely call them
"buttons" for this discussion, though they're about 5" long
each.
On the 1961: In the very end of the buttons, where your
finger hits,
each button had had a dollop of color added to the end, which
appeared
to penetrate about 1/8" or 1/4" (it's been awhile since I did
this)
into the length of the button, to give them different colors
when lit.
I believe (thought I haven't looked) that the letter
itself was then
painted white (R-N-D-2-1).
On the 1963, it is an
entirely different story. The buttons are clear
all the way to the
end. It appears that the only coloring is in the
paint. Some
of the red remains in the letter "R", but that's the only
paint I have
left.
So anyway -- that's an interesting observation on the '61 and
'63
pushbuttons. And now my question:
On the 1963, which has
some remaining red paint left in the letter "R",
what color is the paint
supposed to be for all the other buttons? I am
enough of a purist
that I would like to paint the "green one green, the
blue one blue, the
red one red" -- but not so much of a purist that I
would try to match the
exact factory paint codes for this. (:-D)
Also, what kind of paint would you use for this? Some kind of
brush-on
model paint? Or spray paint? Or what?
So any
help? What color are the other letters supposed to be? There
does not appear to be any trace of any other paint on the end of the
'63's buttons - I guess their "backlight" is all whatever comes out thru
that panelescent panel -- with the letter "floating" on that
background.
--Brooks in Dallas
PS: If I don't get any answers,
I'm going to make up my own colors and
paint Reverse red; Neutral white;
Drive green; 2 blue?; and 1 pink??. I
plan to accomplish this by
painting the whole end of the button, then
wiping the raised surface
clean, leaving the paint in the depression of
the letter. Unless
somebody's got a better idea.
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