Original color of speaker covers?

[Brew]

I’m replacing package tray & was wondering what the original color of these was...thx

1970

[willie]

Brew i painted mine black satin. Hopefully someone with more knowledge will chime in for conformation

[Canuck]

They were painted the same colour as the package tray.

[Dtret]

I painted mine package tray color (I hope). Did way before I got the tray. Now I’m going to have to go look. 

[Dtret]

Ok so I got lucky. Dark blue 

[Brew]

Thx all

[Glen]

On 9/25/2021 at 8:17 PM, Brew said:

I’m replacing package tray & was wondering what the original color of these was...thx

1970

Now you got me thinkin’… the cutouts for your speaker(s) look like mine… like someone used a butter knife to saw thru the package tray.  The first time I noticed this, I thought that maybe somebody did a hack job at some point. I’ll take pix tomorrow for comparison. 

[Glen]

Yep… if I were a gamblin’ man (which, as luck has it, I am) I’d wager they used the same butter knife for the speaker cut outs on our package trays, Brew🤣

Not the best quality pictures as I had to take them from inside the car, but it’s quite obvious that their QC was lacking in this area…

 

[Dtret]

I think they just sprayed some cheese wiz on there and let a couple of mice have at it. 

[Brew]

I cut mine own out. I do not know if the package tray that was in the car when I got it was original. But I believe it was. I looked at how it was done & mimicked that. The holes I cut out line up with the holes in the metal.

you have to get the holes for speaker cover screws absolutely perfectly aligned. That was fun. 

[Dtret]

Put something heavy on the package tray to hold it down and drill up from the trunk. 

[Canuck]

I’ve installed a few of these package trays over the years. I make sure the tray is exactly where it needs to be in the car then I try to keep the knife as sharp as possible when cutting and simply follow the shape of the hole in the metal. The holes for the grill studs I drill from underneath with weight on the tray.