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@SR100 @themoose Thanks guys for giving it a try. I expected as much. Poor old pics with poor lighting, scanned to my pc. The '56 was an old race car, fiberglas '57 front. The "pickup" was a radical '64 El Camino short box step side.

 

I monkeyed with the '56 a bit but there's just not much there to work with, and I'm not that experienced. This is the best I could do, and it's not much improvement, but I'll share it anyway since I tried.

 

Hi Moose, the wife is definitely against the gold (surprisingly). You have any ideas for a replacement color to go with that blue?

 

Here's a couple to ponder

 

Silver over blue!

 

Black over blue

 

"Moose, it appears you used the wrong filter. The correct method would have been to use the brown eye filter.
Without sounding cheeky, the damage is permanently done and I guess the old adage "once an ass, always an ass" applies. There's nothing that's going to wipe that ass away.
sorry."
HEY!!!...oh well, guess I set myself up for that..
Thanks, Moose!!!

 

I always thought fender skirts looked strange(?) weird(?) inappropriate(?) unfinished(?) in a wheel well with a pronounced lip around it. Anyone? Is it the virus?

 

Not as fancy as you photoshop types but a quickie with scissors and tape.

 

I'm right there with ya. I've always prefered flush-mounted skirts.

 

I took the liberty of adding '54/'55 Packard Clipper tail lights. I always thought they would look right at home on a '55/'56 Olds.

 

@Stan Back
No quite understanding your meaning. Maybe this is what you're talking about?

 

No . . .

There's still the outline, not recessed – but out front, of the shape of the fender well opening. Not flush with the skirt – like cars that originally came with skirts had. It just looks unfinished – that's probably why the cars that came with factory skirts made them flush with the quarter panel.

 

My take.

 

I see you, Blue Train Bentley! Looks great.

 

Thanks, James!
I have been a fan of the Blue Train Bentley since I first saw it in Classic and Sportscar magazine over thirty years ago. So imagine my amazement when I walked into Vintage Motors of Sarasota (Florida) last month and saw this:

 

Real quick and rough, as i didn´t want to end up spending half a day on it...(it´s about the design, not necessarily the execution) and along the same lines as Rot'n...

 

Rot'n - Is that the real thing or did someone copy it?! Incredible thing to run into either way.

 

@madfish

 

Oooh! Close-coupled Victoria Coupe - nice.

 

I wondered that myself when I saw it. It's a replica.
https://www.vintagemotorssarasota.com/listing/1930-bentley-blue-train-replica/

"Incredible thing to run into either way."
If I ran into that Beast either way with my Fiat 500 there would be hell to pay!

 

You’re right. That’s a bit too much. I like the black cover version he made.


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How could you not like that gold/black!

 

I believe what Stan Back wants is to remove the fender lip, entirely, from the body (a-la shoebox Ford) so the fender skirt sits flush with the rest of the fender.

 

Yep, I think that's what he was after! I feel the same way about most mid-'50s-and-later Studes with skirts.