Chopped 1948 pontiac, no more golden pearl 50 olds here we go again

Sold the chopped 50 olds fast back,went to a great guy in indy. So got to do another one. This one is a 1948 pontiac chopped streamliner, camaro sub, 455 eng, 400 trans, planning on black and white roll and pleat and wanting to do a color primer (no black}. If you guys have a suggestion on what color primer would look good let me know. Im thinking about lavender or purple. Will post pictures of progess.see you at the march meet.
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CORRECTION, NOT PRIMER I GOT IT WRONG FROM THE PAINTER GOING BASE COAT WITH FLATTNER IN CLEAR.
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That looks like a great project. The fast back chops look like a while lotta work.

 

look at that fancy thing! awesome

 

Great custom... but it needs bumpers first.

 

Wasn't a fan of 48 Pontiacs, until now. That thing is beautiful !. Lavender would look great.

 

Lavender/purple sounds real good to me. Unless of course you wanna go orange like Gambino's 54. That's one sweet looking ride too.

 

Great looking car! The lines are fantastic!

 

Not sure on the perfect Kolor, if it were gloss rootbeer might be good. I do dig the Lincoln taillights. I looked at your past cars! I really like the orange 3 window ford. I have never seen a pic of it? any pics from the rear?

 

rikster, the bumpers are in the chrome shop now. Had to hock the house to pay for the chrome, not cheap.
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here are a couple of pics of the shoebox.
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You already know I like it! Purple / Lavender could be Cool.

48 Poncho

 

Particularly good proportions on what has to be an extremely difficult chop. It almost looks to me like they chopped a coupe and then added a section of roof skin and trunk lid from a fastback. Not real sure how it was done but well executed for sure. I look forward to seeing it with paint and bumpers.

 

your pontiac is way kool
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BAREOOT - Your orange shoebox is CRAZY! I like it.

 

Your Olds was beautiful. That is a sharp '48 too though. With lines like it has I would have to paint it a dark gloss color. Blue, purple, burgandy, black, green...

Post up what you decide on.

 

Looks great purple would be sweet

 

Great lines on that Pontiac, very nice car!

 

Something about burgandy, that just seems to work on these customs..nice car.

 

thanks, wish i still had it.
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im to lazy to keep the dark colors clean, right now im leaning toward lavender primer.
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thanks for the kind words, lavender primer is what im leaning toward.
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lots of work on these

 

i am not an expert in the finishes department but isnt it easier to put a coat of wax on a (Painted car) than apply primer every time the primer gets chalky?

 

I hope you change your mind and go with a shiny dark color.

Nothing looks better on these 40s cars than darrkkkkk finishes.

Cant wait to see it with bumpers.

 

I'd go purple for sure. Not a lot of purple out there, that's why I'm going to go purple on my Mercury. I've got a grey interior so I felt there weren't many color choices so I decided on purple. Just remember to spend a lot of time deciding on your choice, there are a lot of purples that look like **** and only a few that look really good.

 

I suppose it's time it made a comeback. I wish it wouldn't.

I'd love to see that car tastefully 2 toned. Too cl***y for '80s pastels.

 

dark green and skirts

 

At least satin metallic, it would look rather good.
Theres a very nice ?48? chevy that was done by a Stray's member, that now is some kind of copper-ish satin metallic color and looks friggin good.
Tinted primer would look like shizzit in no time and doesnt provide protection for all the good work thats under it.

 

my painter is talking about clear over it to get the satin finish, im no painter, i just tell him what im looking for and he handles it.
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painter, says clear over it to get satin look, should not turn chalky