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The body kit on my GT is black.
I've seen other black ones & I've also seen body coloured ones.

Here's my question,
Did they come from the factory coloured or do folk paint them?

& if so, is it easy?
will a body shop know how to do it?
will it all flake off & look shite?

Thanks

Usually factory-painted; all Scalas and GT2s had body-coloured kits from a certain year onwards.

From what I've heard, the plastic on the black kits is a weird finish that doesn't take kindly to painting. Better off finding a set from a breaker or in the sale section on here.

MK2 Storms and certain late GTX's came with body painted kit as well. What colour is your GT?

The car is an '86 GT in silver.

It's been badly re-painted at some point in its life although its not rusty/rusting.
Any kind of paint from me is a long, long time away but I just thought that I'd ask
because I think that coloured bodykits & cars without the kits look curiously longer & nicer.

Odd really because 20 odd years ago when I had a Y registered GL on 13's
I thought the black kits & front fogs were the bollocks!

The cleaning stuff you apply to black plastic is usually silicon based. After years of rubbing that on, it'd take a lot of cleaning to get rid of every last trace.

Some GTs's had a colour coded kit

My (now sadly defunct) '87 GTS was Flash Silver with a coded kit.

There might one out there for you?

that said a previously coded kit would probably easier to repaint than a b lack one?