[jeff chmura]

Chief,
Like I said,the original texture application is too rough, the more 0 gloss color you apply,the less the texture is. It's very hard to see the end results in the pictures.
I will try to take some better pictures and start a new thread.

[Peter Serio]

AC Delco located in Michigan made dash gauge & bezel assemblies for all GM cars. The gauges were put together onto a plastic or cast potmetal Bezel that was detail painted (the tunnels and the black background camera case finish) for the Tempest and Lemans cars. And aluminum swirl or aluminum backed walnut veneer for the GTO (65 & 66). Interestingly the final color match of each bezel to the car's interior was not done at AC delco.

This was left to the various assembly plants. The bezels shipped out complete with gauges and a heater or AC control but in full outside chrome. Reason I mention this is I have seen several 100 (64-67)sets of gauges and all of them have color overspray on the backs of the housing. Some have just a little and others a lot!! This overspray is the color matching that was done at the assembly plant.

On backs of 64-67 Pontiac A body gauges (the side of your rear metal housings) sometimes you can see exactly what the texture was since for many years of the life of the car this area was never in direct sunlight.


On some gauge sets the overspray is so evident to the point where there is colored paint dust even on the edges of the clear lens. Often the tiny electrical plug in tabs (on rally gauge cars) have paint on one side of them which was the same paint from when they color matched the dash bezel to each car. 1967 in the A body series car would be the last year for this. The 1968 GTO Dash bezels where chrome and detail painted at AC delco prior to the gauge install but those bezels did not need to be color matched to each car's interior.