Any Ontario Orange Fans?

[x33rs]

No, I have all the original drivetrain, it was a bone stocker with one repaint when I found the car in the 80's. Been the car I've enjoyed progressively making faster ever since while still maintaining an original theme, without cutting or aggressively modifying anything.
Original color is Carolina Blue and was special ordered. It's been Hugger Orange for decades which isn't the original color either but oddly I can probably count on one hand the number of people that bothered to ask if Orange was the original color, after they looked at the tag and saw no paint code.
What's more strange is the amount of people I've had to explain what Carolina Blue is. Even self proclaimed sports fans that are car nuts weren't even aware people were ordering their cars with team colors like this, at least not on this side of the country anyway. I'm sure if I were in the Carolina's people would know right away what it is.

Either way I'm finally blowing the car apart for a repaint, it's due, and it's been a real struggle these last few months trying to decide on a color.

[Lee Stewart]

Originally Posted by x33rs

No, I have all the original drivetrain, it was a bone stocker with one repaint when I found the car in the 80's. Been the car I've enjoyed progressively making faster ever since while still maintaining an original theme, without cutting or aggressively modifying anything.
Original color is Carolina Blue and was special ordered. It's been Hugger Orange for decades which isn't the original color either but oddly I can probably count on one hand the number of people that bothered to ask if Orange was the original color, after they looked at the tag and saw no paint code.
What's more strange is the amount of people I've had to explain what Carolina Blue is. Even self proclaimed sports fans that are car nuts weren't even aware people were ordering their cars with team colors like this, at least not on this side of the country anyway. I'm sure if I were in the Carolina's people would know right away what it is.

Either way I'm finally blowing the car apart for a repaint, it's due, and it's been a real struggle these last few months trying to decide on a color.

You aren't concerned about lowering the value of the car if you paint it any color except Carolina Blue?

[x33rs]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

You aren't concerned about lowering the value of the car if you paint it any color except Carolina Blue?

Naa not really, these aren't really big money cars anyway. A pretty nice example like mine can be found in the $40k range, so I don't see a correct restored version fetching more than another $10-15k in my eyes. A 4-speed might add a little more, which mine is not. I just don't view these as worth all that much. If the prices got much higher than $55-$60k for a perfect version of one of these then I'd switch gears and start looking at a different car like a Z or an L78 for not much more, but that's just me.
If it were a couple years older and an LS6 or maybe some other solid lifter version of something I'd look at this much differently of course. But people really aren't attracted to the 71-72's as much as the earlier years.

I'm never selling the car anyway. When I'm gone my son can have it and it'll be up to him.