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If they weren't smokin' when it started, they were by the time the clear dried !

http://image.moparmusclemagazine.com...stom_paint.jpg

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The photo above looks like a Dodge Challenger quarter panel...with a cardboard & spray bomb paint job.

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Found it on the net.
Still hurts my old eyes to look at it.

Heard in the paint booth.....
"If one color is good and two is cool, I wonder what more will look like?"
"Roll another one and we'll find out." :cool:

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And speaking of Challengers...here's a newer one with the latest 'flame job' being painted on the cars today.

http://www.challengertalk.com/forums...lengersrt8.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3554/...9dd111150d.jpg

http://www.challengertalk.com/forums...job-flames.jpg

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Originally Posted by A56 (Post 314500)

I know my car is modern, I just built it a few years ago. I had the lettering and pin striping done to look like the car was from back in the day. My next car will look like something Bucky did. I love the old paint jobs, this is a great thread.

http://classracer.com/classforum/att...8&d=1331393783
Mark Lelchook
F/SA #704

Mark, yes go ahead and post some more close up shots of your car's paint job...

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Originally Posted by mopar68 (Post 314377)

"Street is neat," from back in the day.

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/807...etmachine2.jpg

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/1...etmachine1.jpg

M68

M68, you got any more old photo's with custom paint jobs...

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As an old spray painter from the '60's ,70's, and 80's (now retired) I can safely say this thread brings back some very fond memories. I can remember vividly doing all this stuff.

Thank you all for posting your pictures and please keep this thread alive as it puts a smile on my face every time I log in.

sscuda

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Originally Posted by sscuda (Post 320948)

As an old spray painter from the '60's ,70's, and 80's (now retired) I can safely say this thread brings back some very fond memories. I can remember vividly doing all this stuff.

Thanks for the artwork! IMO, that era in race car art as well as the race car names, was the coolest ever.

M68

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Originally Posted by Liteweight (Post 321058)

http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/...-hagensss1.jpg

Whoa! No jack stands??

M68

Re: Leaf,Lace,Scallops and Cobwebs.

my dads 64 from 1970 striped by howie.

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Originally Posted by mopar68 (Post 322423)

http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/4175/sautobody02.jpg

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/1761/sautobody.jpg

http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/1...phlandolfi.jpg

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/4924/drmvol2305.jpg

M68

Hildebrandts 39 Chey has a Hemi in it.Eddie had a 1964 Hemi Dodge and a 1968 Hemi Dart.Both cars came out of a Dealer in Phila. Pa.

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From the "Hemi Dart" thread. A good example for this topic:

http://classracer.com/classforum/att...3&d=1340651192

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I still have a custom paint book from the 1970s that shows how to paint ribbons, freak drops, lace, and other techniques from that period. There was some sort of paint that left deep cracks in it when it shrunk, and then required a million coats of clear to fill it in. That was probably a candy paint that had severe problems, so they marketed it as a feature for custom paint jobs.

Sort of like the adhesive for post-it notes, it was supposed to be a super adhesive, but would barely hold a piece of paper. Sometimes failures have a place.

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Originally Posted by James L Miller (Post 332879)

It was called "Vreeble" and Metalflake Inc sold it. You sprayed it over a metalflake base and the top coat would split and shrink. Cool effect but you could close down a paint store buying up the clear to finish it. lol

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kw3xLjX5Lu...0/bagrob11.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9M4P_7xH7_...0/bagrob10.jpg

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Unknown B/G Mercury Cougar in the pits at Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ in 1971.

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/3873/img839l.jpg

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/7243/img826al.jpg

M68

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Originally Posted by Charlie A (Post 332890)

Charlie, do you know any more old tricks they used back then...:)

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Originally Posted by Charlie A (Post 332854)

From the "Hemi Dart" thread. A good example for this topic:

http://classracer.com/classforum/att...3&d=1340651192

That is a very cool photo of a '68 Hemi Dart with period paint on it...I would love to see some more pics of it if anyone else has any! ;)

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http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/i...1fd6936e/l.jpg

http://a2.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/i...7daa326b/l.jpg

Here's a couple of old photo's of a '68 Hemi Coronet 4 speed with custom paint and a old bike...

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Originally Posted by mopar68 (Post 343524)

Unknown B/G Mercury Cougar in the pits at Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ in 1971.

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/3873/img839l.jpg

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/7243/img826al.jpg

M68

A friend of mine bought that car, and parted out the small block chevy drivetrain. Then I got the car, as a roller, from him, and we installed a 440 Mopar engine and 727, for bracket racing, in the '80's. I sold the car in 1991,when I moved to Florida. Thanks to Billy Nees, for pointing me to the pics.

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My old auto shop teacher from high school owned this car for a while in the mid-1970s. I think it came out of Division 1 and was a Pro Stocker there. My friend ran in D/G with it around the Tampa Bay area then.

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Originally Posted by James L Miller (Post 347908)

That's some crazy paint on that Duster, but can't quite make out what it says on the door...I presume it was running a 426 Hemi, and is the car still around.

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" Prescription Hemi" is on the door!

http://classracer.com/classforum/att...0&d=1348279947

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Yep, Prescription Hemi. Chad ran it with Hilborn injectors on a 426 Hemi in D/G. It must have had a lot of weight in it to run D/G. I don't know where the car went. He's into Lambo's and Jags now, but still plays with some Mopars. The lettering was gold leaf and looked better than that little photo indicates. Pretty psychedelic early 1970s paint.

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Here's one of a early Belvedere with custom paint on the sides...

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/...-kidpresto.jpg

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I remember a paint job I saw years ago(70's). It was on a convertible of some kind and appeared to have random reflections from chips of mirrors or diamonds. Car was not covered with them like flake but maybe 10 to 15 chips total that really popped when the sun hit them.

Anyone ever see anything that resembles this?

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Someone has been smokin' some of that late 60's, early 70's pot. :)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-btKXxKGLP...5-30-09-36.jpg

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This is from a Moparts.com post by Moparts member "grncpe" on his build that just recently completed and man, it's nice to see a young kid keeping that 70's spin alive and well! Job well done!
http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/z...a/IMG_2197.jpg
http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/z...a/DSC01680.jpg
http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/z...a/IMG_2209.jpg

http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/z.../DSC01674a.jpg