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Old 03-07-03, 11:35 PM
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Gold?

Does anyone know if there were many gold FBs made or do people just paint them other colours. Mines gold and IMO its the best origonal colour. Theres one where i live but i have never seen a pic of one.
Old 03-07-03, 11:56 PM
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Nah, forget gold, SILVER

But I guess I'm just biased because mine's Silver :P

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Silver first gens are played out in my area,I took it up one level



My car will be repainted soon,I wanted to go with a Chevy orange But since its to much of a color change im probally going to do like a gun metal.


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Old 03-08-03, 12:27 AM
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I never have seen a factory OEM gold on a FB only on SA
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i like first gens in white or black. mine is red so when i get it repainted im getting it red again cost to much to change colors. im thinking of doing the bottem half(under body molding) black and upper half in the stock red.
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can I paint his yoohoo goooold ?



I think only the 79-80's were available in gold, the paint name was Solar Gold I think
Old 03-08-03, 11:06 AM
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Mine's an 81 and the original color was gold. The car was painted red later on. It was more of a bronze color than gold.
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Mine has always been origonally gold
since new in 81
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My 83 was originally gold.
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It's not gold, i'ts bronze. I have the same color fb too.
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i know for a fact that in 82, there was a paint color choice on the rx-7 called "maya gold metallic". this comes directly from my factory brochure.
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I'm buying an 80 SA soon that is gold.
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Originally posted by mazdaverx713b
i know for a fact that in 82, there was a paint color choice on the rx-7 called "maya gold metallic". this comes directly from my factory brochure.
Yup, portwarboss on here has an '82 with that color. Here is a pic of it http://www.highline-racing.org/mike/tony.jpg

He even has the back seat installed too. It was in there when he bought it from the previous owner.
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lol a 2+2? ive seen the back seat like 3 or 4 times at a yard. i think there damn ugly lol.. give me the storage bins any day.
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I have the best origional color

The kindof beigeish-gold pearl color on the '83 Limited Editions... I dont know what the color is called, but its friggin beautiful I just picked up the car today, its sexy as hell.

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i used to have a gold se parts car
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Originally posted by Raptor13x
I have the best origional color

The kindof beigeish-gold pearl color on the '83 Limited Editions... I dont know what the color is called, but its friggin beautiful I just picked up the car today, its sexy as hell.
I always though of it as a platinum grey. Weren't there red pinstripes on the '83 LE? Did your LE come with the glass sunroof? I found an LE in a local yard that already had the rims stripped off but had the glass sunroof in it still, practically mint except for the metal tops of the bolts on it were starting to be pitted from rust. Makes a hell of a difference over the metal panel sunroof.
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Okay, the color is called Chateau Silver. Its kindof a champaign color really.

I have the metal sunroof, which amazingly has no rust on it. I really want to saw out the roof and replace it with a normal hardtop, the sunroof really takes up a lot of headroom, and it would be virtually impossible for me to wear a helmet in the car unless I removed the sunroof and had my head going sideways out the roof. Not to mention the extra weight.

but alas, i dont want to have to cut and weld, then get the whole thing repainted...
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1979-1980 M3 Imperial Gold Metallic

1980 M4 Solar Gold Metallic

1981-1983 M5 Maya Gold Metallic

http://www.rotorhead.ca/ref_paintcodes.php
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*shudder*

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