thunderbolt side spear color

[tubbs]

now that I am building my first thunderbolt as a pro touring car, I was curious about the side spears. since I was doing my own thing and not replicating any specific car, I figured it didn't matter what color it was. after looking at a lot of t-bolt pictures, it seems to me that there is no rhyme or reason for the side spear color. I have seen black, white, silver, body color, I have seen a side spear that has no insert to it. just a thin piece of stainless.

so my question is what drives this color? model, body color? was it an option, you can pick what color it was? this is ending up a question for my own knowledge for future thunderbolt builds.

thanks in advance,

Tubbs

[1930fordpickup]

From what I remember there was one Maroon car built , the rest were all White. I would just look to see what was the factory options for them.

After they left the factory who knows what the racers did with them. They all had a different paint job.

[Brett Barrow]

First 11 T-Bolts were Vintage Burgundy, the rest (89?) were White.

I can't say I've ever really paid attention to the side spear color, but it looks like the real T-Bolts were off-white on the Burgundy cars and black on the white cars.

T-Bolt clones or just regular Fairlanes are a different story, of course. You will often see red spears on cars with red interiors, and I seem to recall seeing a blue spear once or twice.

Edited July 29, 2014 by Brett Barrow

[Force]

I have a 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 Sports Coupe wich was delivered from the factory Dynasty Green with Wimbledon White roof and White Crushed Vinyl and Black interior, the color of the cavity of the side spear on my car is white.

I believe the colors of the side spears from the factory was White, Red or Black, other colors are most likely "custom"...but I don't know who and what decided wich color the side spear would be other than it was meant to be an accent to the body color.

The main part of the Thunderbolts were White with Beige/Tan interior and they had black spears, the few that was Burgundy also had Beige/Tan interior as it was the only color available, and most of them had white spears but I have also seen some black, Thunderbolts with other body color than White or Burgundy were painted by the racers themselves as those two colors were the only ones available on the factory Thunderbolts.

By the way...it would be great if someone did a decal for the back seat fabric pattern so we could do our Thunderbolt's with a correct look interior...I have several kits but I haven't built any yet because I don't know how to replicate this interior pattern...and a decal similar to the Scale Motorsports Uphostery Pattern decals is probably the easiest most good looking way to do that.

Edited July 29, 2014 by Force