COLORED fender beading/welting/whatever you want to call it

[kenikh]

Yes, I searched.

Does anyone make body colored fender beading for our cars? Technically, it isn't hard: all that is needed is a profile and an extruder. Someone MUST have done this by now. 10 years ago, when I last looked, it happened yet. Perhaps my luck is better now?

Any pointers would be greatly apprecaited.
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>Kenik<
- 1971 Fastback Resto Hotrod
- 1969 Porsche 911S

"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have the radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent."
-Ferry Porsche

[blankmange]

nope -- the only Type 3 specific fender beading I found is at ISPWest..

and it is black and nothing short of a monstrous pain in the ass....

high quality, and a decent price too...
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[kenikh]

I installed the black stuff many years ago and it is still perfect, but it KILLS ME to look at. I want my welting in marinablau, dammit!

If ISPWest is extruding their own, it won't kill them to change the plastic pellets in the extruder hopper and make some runs in colors. I've run these tools before and it's not hard, especially if you aren't running the extruder at full capccity. Tooling is the expensive part and they already have that covered. Let's see some colors!

ISPWest, are ya listening?
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>Kenik<
- 1971 Fastback Resto Hotrod
- 1969 Porsche 911S

"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have the radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent."
-Ferry Porsche

[PIMPPRIDE]

yea will make it any color you want, we have the tooling done, just order 10,000 feet of it or 100 fender beading kits from us,

Anthony / ISP WEST

[kenikh]

For that price, I could buy one of these and have a tooling shop laser cut me a die:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7563270082

But yes, I can understand why it doesn't make sense to tear your entire production run down to change colors. These damned cars make me so damned illogical sometimes!
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>Kenik<
- 1971 Fastback Resto Hotrod
- 1969 Porsche 911S

"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have the radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent."
-Ferry Porsche

[73notch]

i found some NOS beading, only problem was it was in 3 different colors lol, none of them the color i wanted, orange. Solution was to make cardboard templates of each fender and staple the beading onto the cardboard, so it has the bends and everything. then just give it a shot of paint when you paint your car. its been years, and it still looks perfect.

-Ryan
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