65 911 fuel tank "sombrero"

[merbesfield]

Stick on sound deadener and a heat gun.

Given lack of options and any real products from others this looks very nice. Even if not 100% perfect or original. Nice job.

[Frank Beck]

Deja Vu.

This reminds me of the days when we used to use Stoddard 356 floor pans because we “had no other options”.
That doesn’t necessarily make it acceptable.

I would rather not do anything and patiently wait for an exquisite product than use something that looks “close” to an uninformed eye. (Don’t take that personally; it’s just an opinion. And we’re all free to express them.)

Compare it to Scrogham’s which is the Gold Standard of sombreros. No comparison.

[moito]

Franz,
Can you post a pic of that hot mess?

here is what would make every mariachi sad...

i took off some of it to have a nice untouched area of grey for holding my colour chips against...

[softwindow]

Hallo Franz,
so which colour should we choose for an exact painting?
The tank of my car unfortunately is black now and I want to give it back in the original grey colour.

Kind regards
Bernd

[moito]

Hallo Franz,
so which colour should we choose for an exact painting?
The tank of my car unfortunately is black now and I want to give it back in the original grey colour.

Kind regards
Bernd

bernd



i do have old standox paint chips and the perfect match was a colour from an french truck company called berliet...fregatten grau..but this colour has not been converted to modern paint material...so one can`t mix it anymore......

some say it is a RAL colour....nope it is not(at least not on those fuel tanks i compared )...but RAL 7001 and RAL7000 are close....i would try to mix those two clours 50/50 and see what happens.

side note1:recently my brother found my grand dads WW2 sunglasses...and the case they where in is exactly the same colour as the fuel tank...
side note 2: the webasto red is also a berliet colour ....same issue here ...not mixable

[softwindow]

Thank you Franz!!!!

[haul]

april 65 complete

[moito]

april 65 complete

with layer of black paint???

[haul]

the tank was also „coated“ with this „emulsion“.
I cannot tell the origin...looked „real“ and untouched.
br
haul

[haul]

another very original car, may 65,
also here there is the rest coating/paint/emulsion on the tank visable,

thank you milou for the pic