I like the line where the colour change was done in this one

 

I agree with you on this.
Remember back in the day hot rods/muscle cars were painted pastel colors including the grills and bumpers ?

 

Like these street machines from July 1980 Hot Rod magazine?



Or this 90’s two toned ‘37 Pontiac ?

 

No Blue the cars were one color only.
I mean everything.
Like this :

 

Oh, that Euro monochromatic look, I recall those . Mostly in white , but many rodders switched to pastels






Cream and coral always gets my attention, much more then all white or green like some new Hellcats

 

The traditional hotrod colors.. Yellow, Red, Orange, White, etc. were used because back in the day the bodywork was less than stellar on many of these cars, those colors hide bad work very well. ("back in the day" = 50's 60's T-buckets and 32 three windows, etc. The real "Hot Rod", As opposed to a "street machine" 60's 70's era car...)

Black (gloss) shows every detail of poor workmanship, so was not typically used.

Modern Matte Black is used to replicate "Hot Rod Black Primer" in an easy to care for finish... Being matte it can also hide less than stellar bodywork. A lot of the old hot rods never made it past the "primer stage" anyways, so while this may not have been "popular" at the time, it was very common.


Just the opinion of an old autobody guy....



Yeah... Matte Black, with Gloss Black flames..... Thank me when it's done.

 

I like your thinking! Matte black with gloss black flames! Cool, we used to use John Deere flat black because black or red or grey primer would absorb water and promote rust



Cool two tone idea

 

Yep, primer would be a rust starter, left as done.. But adding a sealer was the ticket. I like the Matte Black Merc & gloss flames.

But today having a ride "wrapped" is way less $$$$ than a good paint job. And it looks just as good imo.

 

will post some new pics soon been working on the two tone , and also the single cab long flat bed , been a lot of work striping them out and deciding on how long i want the bed and the size of the cab as i want to be able to recline the front seats ?? also working as i can as my knee lets me i finally get a new one next month ya ,,, its been a long wait , just had a colonoscopy which seems not to have gone well and had to have them look in my stomach so they found probs with both WTH , i,m falling apart lol , owell what can u do just deal with it , the fit goes on, talk soon dave as for the TT i,m thinking murder it out and doing the blk spray on bed liner with satin blk 18 ss rims and blk depots, blk grill SS springs blk roof rails, stock grill less the bowtie ? or maybe aftermarket ?