electro luminesant tape for the 66-67 chargers and ayone else who wants to

[pandamarie]

At SEMA show last week I found the House of Color booth and they were displaying electo luminesant tape. glows a nice light blue like you see in the shifter selection panel. could be used for any car if you want to see your what gear your in easy at night.
I plan on using it for the Daytona lettering on the side of my clone project, once painted over with your choice of candy colors and filled properly you would never know it was there until you turn it on.
go to www.ILLUMA-FX.com to check it out.

[Ghoste]

Now if someone would only offer a paint to fix the indicator needles in the intruments.

Thanks for the link though.

[Dino]

Now if someone would only offer a paint to fix the indicator needles in the intruments.

Thanks for the link though.

How are those needles supposed to look?

[Ghoste]

The needles in the 66-67 cars glow as well but they are an orange color.  The paint can get chipped off of them when you dismantle things to clean the instrument face and so forth and it will leave a dark spot on the needle when you pull the lights on wherever the paint has chipped.

[Dino]

The needles in the 66-67 cars glow as well but they are an orange color.  The paint can get chipped off of them when you dismantle things to clean the instrument face and so forth and it will leave a dark spot on the needle when you pull the lights on wherever the paint has chipped.

Oh I see.  I've seen paints like that just for needles but for the life of me can't remember where...

[pandamarie]

I have some of that old paint that they used in the 30s-40s it is radioactive and very hard to get. glows real good though.

[Ghoste]

For all I know the stuff they used in the 60's was radioactive too. 

[mauve66]

mark re-paints them (needles) when he does the gauges

[gibber]

I use a translucent glass paint in the correct orange color. Need several coats once the needle is stripped of the old paint.

Mark
www.thegaugedoc.com

[Ghoste]

So not an electroluminescent paint then? 

[A383Wing]

I got a bottle of the orange paint here for the needles....it's a 'glow in the dark" style paint...I ferget where I found it here locally

Bryan

[Ghoste]

But still not the same as the stuff they used when they made them back in 66 and 67.

[mauve66]

just got mine back last week, look great, of course now i have other issues with my job again..............

[JB400]

I got a bottle of the orange paint here for the needles....it's a 'glow in the dark" style paint...I ferget where I found it here locally

Bryan

Orange is a little hard to read on here.  Yellow is too.  Just to let everyone know.

[A383Wing]

But still not the same as the stuff they used when they made them back in 66 and 67.

it may not be the same "stuff"...but it's the same color

Bryan

[Ghoste]

Yes, all of that I understand, what I am looking for is the paint that glows when the electricity from the power pack is applied to it.

[mauve66]

oooh that would be cool to trace the lines on a 1st gen headliner so when the door opens the paint glows like a big dome light

[A383Wing]

Yes, all of that I understand, what I am looking for is the paint that glows when the electricity from the power pack is applied to it.

see my post above, about 6 posts up from here...it glows when lights are turned on...I'm talking about the needle paint...at least I thought we were..guess you are talking about something different

Bryan

[Ghoste]

I read your post and I have tried that stuff in the past but I didn't have the same experience as you I guess because it didn't glow all that great for me and just appeared as dark spots on the needle. 

[gibber]

If the orange paint is not translucent, it will not allow the light to shine thru. It will appear as a dark spot on the needle if you try to touch it up with non translucent paint. I always strip the needle of all paint when I redo them....

Mark
www.thegaugedoc.com