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Post subject: 64 CAR Tele - gold undercoat?
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 12:35 pm
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See the link below to pics of a VERY faded 64 CAR tele.

The undercoat is clearly gold, but I've not seen gold used before 65.

The guitar does not appear to be a refin. Everything looks to be original, & there are no signs anywhere that it has been repainted, but expert opinions are divided pretty equally (simply based on the paint reaction)

http://photos.orange.co.uk/album/406143603

Anybody seen anything like this before?


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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 8:02 pm
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The "Provide" website say they used a silver undercoat then to create the candy apple red color. What happens here may be that they had the gold around and used it for undercoat (maybe one of the first exemples to have a gold undercoat, instead of silver), or the guitar was first sprayed "special order custom gold", but the buyer gave up and they made it candy apple - back then you could never be sure. I'll stick with the first hyphotesis.

http://home.provide.net/~cfh/fenderc.html

"This 1966 Candy Apple Red (C.A.Red) Stratocaster was clearly sent back to the
factory for a factory refinish. The number codes are clear evidence of this.
This CAR finished used gold as the undercoat, which was standard practice
after 1965. Notice the different look than the silver undercoat CAR finish below."

Note: according to Provide, in 1964 they were already making Firemist Gold Fenders, it just appeared later in the custom colors chart. But then, we don't know if what Fender used for Gold Firemist was the same as the undercoat for CAR... :roll:


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