68 Dash bezel paint and decals
 

What color blue paint do you use to paint the gauge openings on a 68 GTO dash? What or where do you get the closest wood grain decal for the dash and glove box, or are they all made by the same company ? Thanks!

Ames sells a dash decal that has a backing on it that is probably better quality, I didn't get one because I already had the thinner one. Good luck on the pod color, I chased that for months and never got anywhere, so I painted them flat black. Not one person has noticed that it's the wrong color.

I have a custom mixed spray bomb that is crazy close to original color & sheen. That's assuming your talking about the blue/green color? It might have the formula on the can, but I would have to look. I have the Ames woodgrain kit. Looks good.

I *think* it's the same color as the backside of the glovebox. Maybe you could take that to an auto body supply store and have them match it.

I always wondered why the back side of the glove box door was that color.

I really, really wanted to paint mine black when I restored it. But yes, its the same color. In fact it might have been what I brought in to have matched? Was over 12 years ago.
On the lemans I could see having it the same color, but on the GTO it only matches the gauge pockets & looks out of place imo.

It matches the gauge faces too. It's more coherent in a Tempest where the entire dash face is steel blue.

This color is one of the cool things I like about '68. It's a neat crossover with the earlier cars like the wing windows, 6.5 emblem, and the key in the dash. They went to black for the gauges and pods in '69.

68 Ragtop, that would be great if you could find the formula on the can. I like the blue/ green color,bit sets it apart from the 69's. Thanks for the info.

The Parts Place is selling the blue dash paint in an aerosol can.

Great Thanks!

Sorry I didn't follow up sooner. I found the can, but there is no formula at all. I called the LPS that made it & he said if there was no formula label it was a mix from scratch from trial & error.

That is a unique Pontiac car dash accent color. There is no (that I've ever found) name or paint code for that color.


It was used up until 1968 on both big car and A body cars for Pontiacs. In the year 2005 I had a paint store here in town mix me up some of that color. I saved the empty can and on the label is printed out the formula for what they used to mix it. The name on that label says 'Ultra one interior" The printout I have will mix up 1 Pint of paint. I also have a bigger printout that will mix a quart and 1/2. If anyone thinks they would like to try getting this mixed again. Keep in mind this is for a specific brand of paint, so the amounts of which colors you need to mix have to be in that brand or family of paint. I don't even know if Ultra one interior is a current brand name, someone here would have to research that. There is no GM formula in any of the older paint chart books for this color. It was mixed by eye from a guy who worked at that paint store for many years (now retired). I sprayed some of the color out years ago and I recall that I liked the way it looked.

T,

I went through this a decade ago after I purchased a rechromed 68 three piece plastic dash set from a guy in TX. The inside of the glove box door was plasti-chromed where it needed to be painted the “special” greenish-blue paint to match the metal part. Since there was no known source for that color paint, I decided to experiment with some rattle can darker blue as a base and then misted with some dark green. I think it came out pretty close to the original color!

In the pics edges of inner glove door are what I painted. Center section with decal is original paint on metal part of glove box door. Not an exact match but pretty darn close.

Might be worth a few cans of spray paint to experiment on junk plastic to see if you can duplicate. I wish I remembered which colors I used but not sure. Might be the two colors in the last pic, royal blue and dk hunter green.

That looks really good!

Mine was the same way. plastic chrome on everything. I sent my dash off to a place in Michigan that literally closed their shop weeks after I got my parts back.

I have a small spot on the top of my plastic where the taping process for paint pulled some of that chrome off. I was so upset at the time i was going to send it back for a redo & found out they went out of business.. The blemish is on the top above the speedo so not a place you can really see unless your really low. I still need to figure out what to do with that. Could try touching it up with something so it isn't bare plastic. There are some pretty bright silver paints out there that might work. iirc its about the size of a dime, maybe smaller.

Hi K, That's looks good! Thanks!