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As many have said, another great paint job and the color choices are perfect for that body style and how you two-toned it. Gonna be a fun cruiser when finished.

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xtremek said:
I need to ask a stupid question (well, because I 'm honest enough to acknowledge I am stupid). If it looks that good, why color sand it? The neighbor painted my Radio Flyer Wagon, and the paint is flawless. I don't want to touch it. I mean no peal, no runs, perfect. Am I wrong to not touch it?
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There's no such thing as no peel. Every paint job will have orange peel to some extent, especially a two stage. Clear is lumpy by nature, solvent selection, gun setup and application can limit it, but every paint job has orange peel. Color sanding will increase the depth, clarity and get rid of any trash in the paint.

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That F is sweeeet! So is the customline. I saw an F1 restored and painted a very light blue with a white top. I'm not sure if that was the OE colors. It had all the polished trim and chrome that Ford offered. I can't remember the year. It's been a while but it was early to mid 50's when the body shape started to square up a bit from the late 40's. It was a really nice ride. It still sport the stock suspension and inline six. with three on the tree.
 
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Here are a couple very rare items that directly pertain to the history of this buildings service station history. First thing I came across was a 1938 Sovereign Service lubrication guide

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Second was a matchbook from the station. Anything with the Perry Oil Co. name on it is pretty special to me. I looked up the BF Goodrich license plate keychain and most I seen were from around 1940-41 timeframe. Pretty neat for 10 cents. I'm now going to have to find one from Iowa

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No particular reason for this pic other than the other morning as I pulled up I thought the old building was looking pretty good in the mid-day sun.

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Color sanding is progressing on the '53

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A few pics after the cut, buff and polish.

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Cleaning up the firewall with a quick coat of satin black. Front disc brake upgrade is on deck

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Inner sheetmetal and grill parts media blasted

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The Customline turned out amazing Joe. Great job.

I agree with the comment about all paint jobs having orange peel to some degree or another. I played around with a lot of combinations/techniques back when I was doing street rods and I found by about an extra 10% of reduction on the last coat of clear helped it flatten out a bit but only slightly. The cutting and buffing took care of the rest but I was looking for anything to take some of the labor out of it, unfortunately there's no such thing as a free lunch.:bounce:

Again, fantastic job on the Customline paint job.:bowdown:
 
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I noticed that we use the same polisher and 3M buff and polish products
They work so well together I couldn't imagine using anything else.

That old ford is looking great

Don
 
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Joe,

Back in the day was the Customline painted with laquer or enamel? When I was learning to paint in the 70's all the GMs were laquer and Ford and Chryslers were enamel.

I also remember that the British Leyland cars (Triumphs, MGs, Jags) all used a paint called melamine acrylic enamel.....which seemed to weather pretty badly if you didn't keep them polished.

Just curious.
 
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The central Iowa Model A club is doing a driving tour this week and a few of them happened through Perry Sunday evening. I thought it was a pretty neat photo opportunity so I circled back and took a few pics while they were parked in front of the Hotel Pattee. This a block west of my building.

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64.5 Mustang all OE with straight six, three on the tree, manual drum brakes and heat. The most basic car I ever owned. Wish I hadn't let someone talk me into chopping it up into a drag car. It was the black front stretched Mustang that rolled at commerce GA during a race back around 90-91. I didn't own the car. The guy that bought it rolled it. I don't know the details or even remember his name.
 
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I'd peg the third one as a 28-29 as well. While it is difficult to see, the hood and cowl look like a fairly good match to the first one. My father had a 29 tudor sedan like the first car, and I learned to tell them apart by looking at the cowl which was detachable on the early ones but not on the later.

Loose, that's an interesting story, but where in the hell did that come from?
 
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camarosrus69 said:
I'd peg the third one as a 28-29 as well. While it is difficult to see, the hood and cowl look like a fairly good match to the first one. My father had a 29 tudor sedan like the first car, and I learned to tell them apart by looking at the cowl which was detachable on the early ones but not on the later.

Loose, that's an interesting story, but where in the hell did that come from?
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I was wondering the same. :headscrat

Interesting about the detachable cowls, I didn't know that. I'm going to have to look a little closer now, at car shows.
 
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I guess I should clarify. If you look at the tan tudor, you can see a curved line running down along the front edge of the door, The whole section forward of that separates from the rest of the body. Since that part holds the dash and the steering column, you can mount it to frame and drive the car without the rest of the body. We bolted a couple boards to mount a bench seat on, and did just that, while we were restoring dad's A.
 
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My 64.5 Mustang first car story was my reply to Saguenay Bill's first car story. I guess I should have quoted his post above mine. :eek:




Sorry for the thread drift, Joe. :beer:
 
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Joe,
You do great work!
I've been following your thread for quite some time but never posted until now.
I wanted to share some pictures I took while my wife and I were vacationing in California last month.
This is Dino's cousin in Willits, Ca.
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