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Going through my pictures, it would have been easier to just post a play-by-play as we went along, instead of trying to piece together ~6 years later.

The body and paint guys were located ~45 minutes NW of me, so I couldn't just head out there anytime. I would typically head out on a Saturday morning and spend a few hours reviewing and discussing with them.

It also looks like I took photos on several different devices, so different attributes when I go to sort pictures. Oh well.

In Oct of '12, I went and bought paint from my local automotive paint supplier. They were great, and printed off the recipes for the color codes - this seems like a good place to post those here. I bought the off-white for the body, the white for the roof cap, and somewhere in here I found a color code for 40 series pewter and had them cook up some of that - it came out pretty close!

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While the tub was going on and off, the guys saw that the rear cross-member braces were pretty ratty looking:

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The rear of the frame getting nice and cleaned up - sorry the pics are so blurry:

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New braces in:

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Fall in northern Colorado can be beautiful! The days get a little shorter, and the nights a little chillier, but sunny days in the 70s are not unheard of.

As best as I can tell, I took these pictures on 9 November, 2013. It was so nice they shot the hood and fenders outside, and the finished product looks great!

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Just before Christmas of '13, they were getting ready to shoot the cowl and tub.

I don't remember why we had the side panels for the hard top on. I wasn't sure I would even post this picture, and then I spotted he '69 grille for my 55 in the foreground! I found a genuine '69 grille and brought it to these guys to blast clean:

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When I was contemplating the disassembly of the hard top, @Chamba chimed in with some help. In one of his posts, I noticed a picture of his 40 with a 3rd brake light at the top of the roof cap. I thought it looked nice and clean, so I asked where he found this? He said it was the 3rd brake light from a 70 series.

Hmm...

I decided to go for it as I could handle the mods to the roof cap if it had come from a 70 series!

By Jan of '14 I had gotten a hold of the pieces I would need to add a brake light to the hard top.

There are 3 pieces - the base that mounts to the top, the actual brake light that is installed on the mount, and then a cover.

The base - Gasket, Stop CTR:

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Amazingly, I have no pictures of the p/n for the actual LED element of the brake light.

I take pictures of everything, so not sure how that happened?

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Here is the connector:

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Here is how it fits to the base gasket:

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And a little holder for the connector:

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See what I mean about taking lots of pictures? :)
 
FJBen said:
Nice! Thats a great mod for these old rigs. I need to figure something for more. It can't hurt to have more brake light visibility.
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I wonder if this would fit your roof? C'mon over and we'll check it out!
 
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