Also known as the Candy colored tangerine flake streamline baby. The car was almost new when It was restyled by Barris, Somewhere I remember seeing a picture of this car with the candy color completely sun bleached down to the base color and spray painted in giant letters on the side of the car Paint by Barris or something like that. I can't for the life of me remember where I saw that picture? anyone here know???
It was in Andy’s book Hot Rods and Customs of the 50’s I believe. Owner was pissed he spent lots of money on a candy job and the toners all faded quickly. It was parked out side of a show entrance with a bunch of stuff written on it
I have looked through every book I can find and have not seen it yet. do you know for sure? seems like a 1960 car wouldn't be in a book about customs from the 50's
The car that gave the ***le to Tom Wolfe's first book, The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby. This was the first time anyone outside the hot rod world wrote seriously about hot rods and custom cars. He was the first critic to recognize that if there is such a thing as art, then George Barris, Darryl Starbird, Ed Roth and the rest are artists. Still worth a read if you are into car culture of the sixties. https://cl***ic.esquire.com/article/19631101121/print
I believe it is in one of the Barris' books from the same time period that Andy Southard published his. I am thinking "Barris Customs of the '60's" or the Barris' custom techniques book about painting. I can check later tonight. I think George talks about how you "can't make everyone happy"
thanks, I don't think I have that techniques book, or I can't find it... I have looked thru everything else. post the pic here if you would....
That’s just mean hey, we all make mistakes and with his advanced age. Well you have to cut him some slack. There Mark, I defended you.
Looks like @AndersF beat me to it. Cool @Moriarity, besides that picture I was thinking there was another one somewhere too. Maybe here but could be lost in a photo bucket black hole.
My Danbury Mint diecast and a copy of the book. Sorry for the ****py pictures. It is buried in the showcase and too hard to get out.
I thought it kinda funny that Ronnie lived in Indiana and brought the car back to Cali to park it at the winternationals? or had he moved to Ca? Also he changed out that *****in white interior for black? hmmmmmmm....
Thought I would take one more chance and found this is from the “Big Book of Barris” I agreed with you, he had to been pretty upset to drive all the way back to Cali over this. But who knows.
The Age Old problem of Lacquer CHECK... Spraying coat after coat of lacquer paint. I worked with one of the most knowledgable auto painters back in the seventies that would take three weeks to one month to do apply a lacquer paint job. Twenty five to thirty coats...DEEP...DEEP...FFFNN DEEP paint jobs.
The old candy toners faded fast, that's why a bunch of Watson's paint jobs ended up with panel paint, trying to cover the faded candy. Old lacquer was the ****, you could really get it to shine, and it looked like you could walk into it, but yes it did get put on thick, and yes it cracked. I've seen plenty of old lacquer jobs that was lacquer checked. I'd love to own a car with a checked black lacquer job.
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