Technical Gassers of the mid 60's

Here's a Watson paint job just for comparison. Charles Kuhl's 1957 Ford Ranchero.

The panel thing looks a little "busy" for my taste, and not very g***er like.

Sondre Kvipt's 1957 Ford Ranchero ...You wouldn't have to go so crazy though!
Just some ideas.

 

How about if you take something like this, and elaborate on it?


Do a lower panel like this and fish-scale it, then do a panel above the trim along the beltline and do an endless line on it, put a thunderbolt bubble on the hood, do another endless line panel on the flat spot on top of the hood bubble, then do two panels on the hood with more fish scales, split down the center of the hood and going around the base of the t-bolt bubble. Select your colours with thought and care and it will look fantastic. If you are doing the base colour in white like you suggested, you can do almost any group of colours on the panels, but I would think hard about the combination of colours within the panels. Keep in mind that even if the base colour is white, the panels are going to be the dominant colour that the eye will see when its all done. You could go with a combination of yellows, oranges and gold, or greens, golds and blues, or blues silver and purples, just throwing ideas at you and suggesting what I would do, with white as a base, you can use anything you want as panels.

 

This without the Flame effect would look reallllllly good and is something a home painter could pull off decently IMO.

 

Hey MAN! Get your own pics! I saw it first! Great minds ( us ) do think alike. It's our Northwest upbringing!

 

Those '57 Rancheros have great lines and make very cool rides. Do it up your way, and enjoy the hell outta it.
FWIW, I'm not a fan of 'lettered' street driven cars myself, but if it floats yer boat have at it. Your approval is the only one that matters. Someone mentioned the Caddy Firemist paints. Did an ElCamino of mine years ago in a Caddy(Mocha?)Firemist and it was a looker!

 

I have not posted pictures of my 40 chevy build here on the HAMB, cause it is built the way I want it. Not the way someone thinks I should build my car. I could call it a g***er, but it won't fit the 65 rules or any others. So for the sake of labeling, I will call it a street freak, after all, I am a street freak. Or maybe, I'll just keep calling it my 40. Disc brakes, blown SBC, 12 point cage, not traditional, but much safer. I consider my SBC vintage and traditional (that's just me I know). I grew up in the 60's with my fathers flatheads, but we all raced with SBC's, unless we could afford a 440 car. We were not concerned with tradition, cause frankly, tradition was kinda slow. I will paint it the way I want, I won't win any shows, but I will have a blast strip or street. When the day is done, I'll park it by the ol 29 roadster pickup and they can discuss tradition between them, the 59 Vette, and 36 pickup and the firewood haulin Willys. Seems tradition sets in my garage, the others get driven - hard.

 

My bud in school bought a new 57' in black - lowered - pipes - bar grille - and dodge lancer caps and it was a looker for sure, and one hell of a cool skirt chaser when you are going to school

Those 57's make a lot better looking custom than a g***er looking car, as the body lines just work

DND

 

I like this! Kinda more custom, but cool.....and I'm sure very expensive! I also vote for the white headers.Yeah I know, impossible to keep clean, but they look so 60's! A common description of well built cars then was "sanitary? Think THAT one over guys?

 

Ignore the icky stuff (LOL), the bright yellow really pops, looks great on this body style.Would look nice with the Cragars!
I'm done suggesting, somebody will flame me and say I'm telling you what to do.I think you understand where I'm coming from.Looking forward to reading more of your ideas!

 

badvolvo,

I for one, would love to see some photos of your '40. If you don't want to post you could send me a photo of your '40 via PM. It sounds like a pretty interesting car.

 

I don't know what years these were. Late 60's maybe.

 

Not sure what you mean, but the first one:mid 60's, second one: late 60's, of course it's the exact same car!

 

Gary it was ' That's SANO Man ' like to have a buck for all the times I spoke those words

DND

 

LOL In the Beaver State it was SANITARY, very SANITARY. LOL Every region had it's own variations!
Very cool man. LOL!

 

Thanks for the reminder! Gotta find a pic of his Corvette that followed, its like a text-book for the subject of this thread!

 

Its pretty cool how it all comes back to yaa, on the HAMB

DND

 

you guys have impressed the hell out of me so now comes the process. I will keep you updated as we progress. we have some basic body work to do and radius the wheel wells then prime and paint. Thanks for the help and input. I hope to see a bunch of you at the melt down!!!

 

Same owner and Willys ch***is as the Maroon and gold brown bronze panel painted Willys a few posts above.., Fred Tiexierra

 

that's the one. I got the Car Craft article, I will try to find it. OP, this car is a 4 wheeled instruction manual for what we are talking about.

 

I've been trying to find this article since this thread started. Gotta be clear, theres quite a few here that I wouldn't put on my car on a bet, and the how-to descriptions might be over-simplified, but its a good broad overview of a whole bunch of different techniques that were popular in the late sixties-early seventies. Theres still lots of good info in here, just don't glue magazine photos on your car, or start searching ebay for NOS Cal Custom mural decals.

 

the article is great. THANKS

 

This is a picture that appeared in the local newspaper of our 36 Ford G***er that was built in the mid sixties when we were teenagers in my Grandpa's garage with our nickels and dimes and lots of junkyard parts. Originally flathead powered and later a 327 SBC. Nothing fancy but we sure had fun racing it. I'm the skinny guy in the middle.

Gary

 

Gary, you are spot on....

 

Thank you! The OP is sincere, knowledgeable and very COOL! His Ranchero will turn out great, he has more skills than I do!

 

Me? I go for clean body work and nice simple paint. A Ranchero is busy enough without every trick paint thrown at it. You cant go wrong with Black, White, or Red.

 

Right on 2 many just like my 78'

 

I agree mine will be one color it just needs to warm here in the 30's makes it tough to prep my shop only heats to about 65

 

Or you could go another route...

 

Just take note of the date...1976. This stuff was getting done a few years earlier, but be wary of stepping beyond the time you're trying to emulate.