04/07/2026
Saturday afternoon shed sessions watching Nitro Funny Cars on TV and stripping, repairing and prepping plastic when we noticed this.
Sean's pair of HKTG short consoles ready to go in the acid, when we noticed the different masking lines between the two.
Have never seen the mask line on the left console before, all of the ones we've done have been the same as the one on the right.
Also, the one on the left has had carpet glued in the bottom like a full length console. Haven't seen that before either....
Another thing we've noticed lately with these is that a few of them we've stripped appear to have been repainted, from what we believe is by the factory. Our acids and other chemicals remove most paints, but won't touch the paint as used by GM-H. So we can see what colour it was, what colour it became and also whatever rattle can respray it's had in its life.
Can anyone identify the colours by model? (Our identification is one's blue, the other isn't) They both appear to be the same blue originally, with the gold one repainted.
We "assume" different assembly plants, same as the long consoles being either black or interior colour????
Any rivet counters have any thoughts? It's not something that interests or bothers us too much, but if someone's dropping $200+K on a Premier resto, we can mask it a little differently for them when we mask and paint it.
