Two-Tone TC?

[Guest Wayne in Malvern PA]

I saw a very attractive early 2-seat T-bird on the road yesterday - red with a white hard top. Got me to wondering if anybody had tried putting a different color top on a TC? White or Black top on a red TC for instance? Might look kinda neat.

[Guest Jeffn]

We could have a top swap to try the different tones.

[Tutty77]

Yes I have a royal cab that I changed the top color to tan that chnges color depending how the sun hits. It goes from a tan close to the interier to a soft silver. It really looks great, It also brings out the burgandy, not soo much of it. This is on a 89, and I also have a 89 red, But feel that I should leave it alone.

I had this car at the nationals in Laughlin in 2003.

[MattWilson]

I had a friend of the family paint my hard top black (originally "exotic" red) shortly after I bought my TC. (The top was noticeably faded compared to the rest of the car and two shades of red looked hideous)

I've never had any regrets.

[Tutty77]

That was the main reason that I painted my royal cab, the top had turned milkey on top and I was afraid that if I painted it the same color that it might not match. The rest of the car paint was real good.

[Guest gontpless]

Put the black top on my yellow TC looks ok,and had the yellow top on the black TC looked like s#*& [color:"blue"] [color:"blue"]

[Guest Wayne in Malvern PA]

I could see how a yellow top on a black body might look a bit strange. I'm sure there's some kind of design principle about what colors you can mix. The color guys from the 50's, when everything was 2 or 3 tone, must have had that down pretty well.

Saw a yellow TC on the DC Beltway last Thursday.