hood hinges

[dotcentral]

I have decided to clean mine up, knock off the surface rust and paint them. What color should they be? I'm leaning towards either a satin or semi-flat black, or sort of a gray metal color.

Were these painted at the factory, or just bare metal?

[FORDification]

I'm pretty sure they were a natural metal color from the factory, but they wouldn't have been bare metal. There was a '70 that came through E-bay a while back with only 358 original miles, here's a shot of the hinges on that truck.

[68F250]

Factory finish is gray phosphate. You can use a gun kit like here:
http://www.parkerizingkits.com/

Eastwood has a phosphate spray:
http://www.eastwoodco.com/shopping/prod ... =phosphate

Or try something like this:
http://www.fomoco.com/mustang-forum/rep ... eply=71005

If it were me, I'd just use the Eastwood spray and call it done.

[dotcentral]

Thanks for the replies. I think I'll try a rustoleum metal color and see how that looks. Not going for a resto, just wanting to clean it up a little.

[flyboy2610]

When I do mine, I'm going to go with gloss black for the engine compartment, so that's what color the hinges will be

[rjewkes]

:stupid: So am I.