ok as the hints are out there my SA has received some cosmetic attention

Here is a point where I am kind of stuck, what color are the exterior door handles suppose to be?? The window trim is not black, are they suppose to match the window trim or the mirror which is a graphite color??

not sure if the trim will be clear in this pic



thanks guys

 

For you, rainbow will be perfect lol

 

as in a rainbow made using the colors available on the 78/79's?

that may just be genuis










not

 

all the 1st gen door handles ive ever had were black. I wish i could help you more.

 

yeah but virtually all of the window trim is black as well ...

but thanks

Oh you forgot to remind me this weekend lol

 

the earlier cars i think started black, but fade to a grey, like your pic. there is actually a different part number for the early/grey door handle, but the trim around the windows superceeds

 

My 80 is blak

 

I am not exactly sure myself but we are confident it's the original window trim color. My car is early her birthday is 4/78. We have several SA's here but only mine is "not" black

So do I follow you correctly, handles same color as trim in your opinion?

 

my 5/78 SA is grey too. handles match the trim on that car. parts catalog has a different part number for the 79 and 80, so 79 should be grey and 80+ should be black.

although a new grey part is really dark

 

ok, what color is your 78? (the car itself)

at worse I'll have the trim color matched and do the handles

what gets me is all the other 78/79's locally have black trim and handles and the couple of pics I can find of Daytona Blue cars are also black so I am not catching a ryhme or reason. Once I re assemble the car I can focus back on getting the dang weber dialed in

 

car is RH red, original paint, it did have a windshield but it looks like all the original trim made it back on

 

They can be any color you want. But if your asking how they came from the factory, they should match the door trim which was that graphite grey you mentioned. The 79 mirrors were also a close matching grey plastic.

I've never been able to find an actual factory color code for the trim, But I did find excellent color match to my original trim color. It has no actual name, just came out out of a Sikkens color map book called Metallic colors, page 351, code H-3.

In 1980 the trim and mirrors were more black. Actually, I'd bet slight variance's occured throughout production making an exact all or nothing right and wrong answer impossibile. But in 79, overall trim and door handles were metallic grey, not black.

 

Thanks Banzai, adding that lil tid bit to my SA notes.

 

thanks guys,

thanks Banzai I've never noriced the lighter colored mirror before

I've heard the suggestion of doing them blue

dang Mazda, I have choopacobra's 3/78 Spark yellow at my place and all the trim is black ... sigh ... and he purchased it from the original owner ...

 

I remember that thread going around, suggesting that the Spark cars (and maybe Daytona ones) had the black trim instead of the grey. Honestly, back in the day I never specifically compared the trim colors of the cars to one another looking for differences.

But at the time, this Rx-7 rabid teenager did not notice any glaring differences in it either. I spent several Sunday afternoons that summer of 79 at dealers lots, rubbing up and down on new Rx-7's. Spark cars were a little rarer than White, Red and Bronze ones with the Daytona cars being very few and far inbetween. I'd swear on a stack of rotors that the trim color was the same for all cars. My Sunrise Red one came with the trim in my previous post.

 

If I would have been paying attention back then it would have helped but am guilty of driving Chevelles back then lol

Oh for the record the black car is mine shortly after I got it, then went blue over a year ago (that failed). My avatar is a hint of what she looks after her trip to the beauty parlor on 1/21/2012

 

Just paint to match ur new paint as at this point it, its no longer orig paint

 

lol you been talking to choop?

you know hot pink would pop

I know it's not factory paint but there is no reason not to have it looking correct.
This then leaves me the option to pull off the Enkies and throw on the waffles and
if so inclined pull the keg and swap in the thermal reactor engine. My car will be
like a transformer lol

 

Like Wacky's, I mean Siraniko's name !

 

To follow up, this 79 mirror is mint as aftermarket baby tornado's were one of the first things I installed after buying my car. The darker mirror and trim came off a low mile 80 and shows the differences. In reality, the general purpose trim paint found at most autopart stores can produce a good, affordable representation of either color.

 

lol, baby tornados...I still got them in my RX-3s. I got a bunch of those SA mirrors also if anyone needs it

 

Ok. I must be too young... What is a baby tornado?

 

ok guys is it just me but doesn't look like the mirror and trim match as if their a couple of shades diferent .... but does look like I have the correct mirror

 

aftermarket side mirrors from the 80's.

 

Light and color can do wierd things. In my garage light the 79 mirror does appear darker when placed next to the trim, but much greyer when next to the 80 mirror. If I took the picture in good sunlight the results would be different I'm sure. They are not an exact match but the mirror is also molded colored plastic, not paint. As an example, same color mirror, same color trim, same basic light, different color car and different result.....Also a door handle which is what started all this.

Finially, my Toronado's. I got the Turbo style which were different. They came in two sizes, these smaller ones were called baby toronado's. Period speed gear.