Re: paint

[farna@xxxxxxx]

I think the color stripe in the tread is a Goodrich tire.. heck, might be Goodyear! I saw them advertised when I had tires put on my Volvo. Only blue and red that I remember. 

Tom, try this: Solid white car, then start with a stripe about 3-4 inches under the front bumper and angle up and back to a point about 3-4" back from the sail panel, or even with the front edge of the trunk (I seem to recall about 3" from the bottom of the back window to the edge of the trunk...). Then take that stripe across the trunk and mirror on the other side. Now lets go back to the trunk. Make that stripe across the trunk all the way back to the body line where it drops of the back. From the side connect it back to the beginning point at the front. Make this one blue. So you have an angled blue stripe down the side, across the trunk, and down the other side. Now from the front beginning point start another one, only tak it to the top corner of the tail light. Below this line paint it red, including the tail light panel and rear bumper (front bumper and grille will be white). This will leave a white wedge just between the blue and red. Alternately, just paint read bel!
 ow the blue and forget the white wedge. 

Paint the front wheels with the stripes also. Will look cool even with the wheels not rotated the "right" way, as you can tell they were painted to match. The rear wheels will of course be red. Just don't rotate the tires!!

You might want to start the stripes just behind the front wheel, which would leave the front wheels all white. I drew this up on a four door 66-69 American and really liked it. I put the read at the bottom to keep it from fading as bad as it would acrossthe trunk (reduced exposure to sunlight). 


On January 27, 2006 Tom Jennings wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 06:03, mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> >    I gotta say Of the two I prefer the grey on the bottom.
> > My personal opinion. The allover grey with an SC stripe sounded awesome.
> >  To each his own :]
> 
> Yeah, it's a close contest. Cars with razor straight lines like this are
> easy to two-tone. The all-grey is more modern; two-tone is pretty much
> 50's/60's invokation.
> 
> THere's another variation that looks good on our slab-sided 60's cars:
> 
> http://www.wps.com/temp/hornet-side-white-up-down.jpg
> 
> Looks like SC/Rambler! A bit of American heritage visible with this...
> :-) Now that's a 60's look, or what?
> 
> I wish tires came in colors. I've seen some red tread stripes on
> Japanese import cars (I mean cars physically transported from Japan; how
> they get away with this I don't know) but that's all.
> 


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