Projects Recreating the jesse lopez coupe

jivin jer · Oct 26, 2024

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With Jr's car we had too many color pic's and, with Jesse's we have none. What we do have is a known color-1947-1951 Chrysler Andante green. The same color was used on other Chrysler Corp. margue's under different names. Having a known was comforting compared to the mysterious Sam Bronze.

Jesse say's that he didn't do anything to the color except add some sparkle to it so that you could see it (the sparkle) under lights at night.

I asked my PPG store if they could help me with this color. They found an old R-M formula that they could translate into a modern one. I got some TCP Global flake (the smallest they had) and I figured I was in business. With all this info I thought I just needed to spray out 3 cards with gradually more flake in each one and send them to Jesse. These were eurethane base/clear that were shiny and smooth. You can imagine how shocked I was when Jesse said nope, this isn't the color.

When Jesse modified this color he sprayed it on a bike gas tank that he had. It showed the color and sparkle on the contours. This was to make things difficult during this process of trying to navigate through all the greens that were sent at about $70.00 a pop. Jesse didn't want to commit without that gas tank spray out. I did find a '50 Ford upper grille bar that I cut up into pieces that I could send. These were contoured. This becomes a frustrating period of back and forth w/Jesse that has him saying I've seen some colors on some late model cars in the area that look close. How absolutely wonderful.

To the rescue comes John Meyer (Clean Cut Creations) of Saint Louis Mo.. He PM'd me saying that his shop had done a high end resto on a '51 Chrysler convertible awhile back (post # 1009). The customer was very picky about everything, especially the color. They did over 15 spray out cards for him before he was satisfied with the color. He still had all those cards and wanted to know if I would like to see them. WOULD I LIKE TO SEE THEM??, YOU BET I WOULD.

I sent these cards to Jesse and, he said yup, that's the color. I asked him to mark the closest 3 cards that he liked and send them all back to me. I had my PPG store look at that color with their prophet. A device that "reads" the color and creates a formula to duplicate it. I had them make up a gallon of that in eurethane and put it in 2 gallon cans. I'm in business now.

On this journey I've made several friends. One of them is David Zivot (Michelleys husband). As we've talked, he's mentioned that he's going to use lacquer on the meticulous Matranga clone he's creating. I wasn't even aware that lacquer was available. As David revealed his source for this I became very interested in doing Jesse's car in the original material. It's been many, many years since I've shot lacquer and I have fond memories of it.

David's source was unable to get this color for me in anything but acrylic enamel. That won't do. I went online and found Hibernia auto restoration in N.J.. They're a high end resto shop that originally only did Packards. They work on anything these days and make all their own paint. Adam explained to me that the nitro lacquer they make now won't work for this because to get this color he needs lead that is no longer available. The only lacquer that he would have for this would be acrylic, would that do? It would. I sent Adam a spray out card of what I had and he sent me back one in acrylic lacquer that was dead on. I'm in business again.

We all now know how it looks rubbed and, it's everything that is said about it, especially the shine.

ONWARD!
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What the "adventure" can look like sometimes when you're trying to get things right.

jivin jer · Oct 29, 2024

With electricity, and insulation.

jivin jer · Nov 9, 2024

This is one of my most favorite pics of this build.

jivin jer · Nov 20, 2024 at 7:08 AM

I'm still alive, details to follow.

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