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Color coat on the '55 Chevy.

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Posted on June 13, 2021 at 08:31:49
ghost of olddude55
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Good a good smooth glossy finish, unfortunately my prep work sucked and sanding marks are visible through the paint. Body will need to be re-sanded, re-primed, re-shot. Probably should have the paint stripped.
Dang it.
Might just use the body from the two-door hardtop kit



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I love the old car colors, posted on June 13, 2021 at 09:03:17
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 Today there are only a few bland colors available on most models. :(

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Mopar has a really sweet dark olive green metallic that I really like., posted on June 13, 2021 at 09:33:31
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 Otherwise, it's black, white, or silver on most cars.
The back half of my Chevy will be Shadow Grey metallic.



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RE: Mopar has a really sweet dark olive green metallic that I really like., posted on June 13, 2021 at 09:47:51
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 My sister had a '68 Coronet 440 that was dark metallic green. If that's the same green you're fond of, I understand why. It was/is a beautiful shade of green.

 

New color. Saw it on a 300 sedan., posted on June 13, 2021 at 10:03:34
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 Couple of Jeeps.
My Pinto was Ivy Gold Metallic. Green with gold metal flakes. Laugh all you want about Seventies colors and the Ford Pinto, but it was really nice color, and the car was better than people think.
Folks who diss it the most have probably never even seen one.



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Toyota has a great metallic tangerine..., posted on June 13, 2021 at 10:45:01
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 The pic doesn't give it justice. And it needs some black wheels and racing stripes. ;)




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Ditch the wheel cover, you got black wheels., posted on June 13, 2021 at 10:46:56
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 Black steelies look great, very stripped down and purposeful.



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The reason some people dissed some of the '70s Fords was due to a defect., posted on June 13, 2021 at 12:13:42
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 I had a '75 Mustang and the front end shimmied at highway speeds. Ford blamed it on the tires. The Tire manufacturer blamed Ford. The Mustand went through front tires like crazy. Firestone paid for the first replacements. After that, they went to prorating, and I traded it in. The company I worked for had a fleet of Pintos. They all shimmied. There was something wrong with the frond end design. There were no recalls back then.

 

RE: I love the old car colors, posted on June 13, 2021 at 12:25:58
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 Any color you want, as long as it's a shade of GREY.....
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Wonderful..., posted on June 13, 2021 at 12:27:51
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 Can't wait to see the end result, IF it ever passes your QC!

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We had four Pintos, between my Dad and I., posted on June 13, 2021 at 12:52:14
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 None of them shimmied. I worked for a Ford dealer that also rented cars, drove Pintos all over the southwestern corner of the state. None of them shimmied either.
The Pinto we had longest was a '71 Hatchback. Front springs needed replaced, all of the suspension bushings, it needed an alignment, etc, but those days I spent what little money I had on stereo equipment and LPs. Still, the car didn't shimmy.
But they all suffered from the stupid bias belted tires. A set of radials transformed the car.
Pintos and Mustang IIs are laughed at now but they were sales successes. During the Pinto's heyday, Ford sold more of them annually than Toyota sells RAV4s today.
1.1 million Mustang IIs were sold from 1974 - 1978. No car currently in production is that popular.
What people today always forget is the context of the time. The Pinto competed with the Vega, Gremlin, Toyota Corolla, and Honda Civic. Neither the Civic nor the Corolla were very good cars at the time. The Vega was a shuddering pile of garbage right off the showroom floor, the Gremlin hopelessly outdated. The larger cars available were still using 1950s technology, massive engines that developed little horsepower and used ridiculous amounts of fuel.
People like to laugh at the Mustang II because it was based on the Pinto, but they forget that the original Mustang was just a Ford Falcon in disguise.
The final version of the first gen Mustang was a terrible car, overweight, thirsty, massive front and rear overhang. The Mustang II was actually an improvement.
I'd love to drive a Pinto today, just to put it into context. And a Mustang II with a V8 and manual transmission would be a lot of fun.



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Got it mostly sanded out., posted on June 13, 2021 at 12:54:52
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 Filled the sanding scratches with putty. Lesson learned--don't use 120 grit on a model car, and always use scratch-filling primer.
I had to order more coral paint from Model Car World. Shipping is fairly fast, but I won't be painting the body again until next week at the earliest.
Update: Shot a coat of primer on her and well, can't use it for my factory stock '55 Chevy project. Not ruined but some of the trim detail has been sanded away. I'll hang onto it for a future project, either a phantom 210 convertible or a custom.



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Great color! Can't wait to see it finished. nt, posted on June 13, 2021 at 13:36:53
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Might end up finished as a hardtop., posted on June 13, 2021 at 13:43:17
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 No idea how the convertible body is going to look once I get it in primer again.
HT and CVT are the same kit, just different bodies, so all the other work I've done with the chassis, engine, and interior won't be for nothing.



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My dentist is a modeller, posted on June 14, 2021 at 01:50:28
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 And from what I've seen, painting is by far and away the most difficult skill to master.
I admire you for getting back into it!



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It is., posted on June 14, 2021 at 04:27:09
ghost of olddude55
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 The model car forums are loaded with threads, builders have to paint, strip, repaint, strip, repaint again before getting joy.
My mistake with the Chevy was sanding the paint off instead of stripping it. There's a product made for model railroading that will strip paint from styrene models without damaging the plastic.
Instead, I sanded and damaged some of the molded in side trim, to the point that the body is no longer useful for this build.
Found another '55 Chev convertible kit on eBay cheap. I'll use the body from that kit with the parts from the first kit.



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