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

I totally agree - man that thing looks killer! I also agree that lavender would look great ....

 

Lavender?? On purpose?? Sounds like your mind is made up, but I vote for a dark color.
It's not that hard to hose them off now and then and if it's primer you don't even have to dry it because spots are not a problem - I dry my car by driving it home from the quarter wash.

 

Very Nice!

 

Great looking car!

 

Maybe flat metalic forest green with a bone top? Either way sweet ride for sure!

 

put some narrowed control arms on it if you can... I think it will help hide the fact that it is clipped.

On a side note, what size tires are up front?

 

you dont see the sub with the bumper on it, besides im not trying to hide the clip, the rides to good. Just got front bumper back from chrome shop, waiting on the rear should be ready next week.
Foot

 

tires are 205x75x15

 

thanks for going along with the lavender.
Foot

 

My 55 Chrysler was a lavender mist PPG. We cleared it in a violet pearl and in the sun it flipped very nice. That car would change colour in different light anything from almost a white to a violet in the sun.

 

Shiney please, that car deserves it.

 

I would note that a matt finish shows that the car was done recently. If that's your intention, then do that. The style of the car, as it looks now, is pretty timeless. A shiny, periwinkle, lavender, like the car Gary Howard built for Jimmy Vaughn many years ago would look killer. "If it were mine, it would shine", said in my Johnny Cochran voice...

 

My friend's chopped '46 Olds was in twodifferent primers for a few years then he painted it a dark cherry. Looks good!

 

Clean and mean, Olds, Ponco, Whateve.............Drove (rode ) one of those Poniacs to Highscool.........As well as A Friends Hudson.
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Smokey

 

beleive me i understand the guys that want paint, instead of primer. I got my first custom at the age of 15 the guy that did pinstriping in my old home town in texas was 21 at that time. Telling him about how i could not afford paint with a job delivering the local news paper. He told me to bring it over to his shop on saturday about 8.00am. By 3.00pm it was laid in green primer, he charged me $40.00 took $10.00 a week to pay him. Then he striped it for free. So the primer is an old skool thing for me ive had several both ways. At this point the only hing i can tell you for sure there will be no dark colors its got to be bright and pop when you see it coming. Check my album and you will see the bright colors. But i do respect everyone opinons.
Thanks much foot
oh yea i did drive the wheels off of it with no drivers license

 

I've seen your cars and I like them. I was just throwing it out there. Thanks for the cool story about the colored primer. I enjoyed it a lot.

 

thanks phil, times were good back then, doing old cars was alot more fun.
Foot

 

thanks much

 

Looks good. Can't wait to see the bumpers back on. I will be watching this one

 

the poncho needs lincoln canted quads, pearl lavender with a dark purple kandy fog on the highlights!

I know a dude that has some canted quad stuff if you get ta thinkin

 

bumpers suppose to be back tommorow

 

something to think about

 

thanks for good words

 

Love those 48 Pontiac's. Dad went to Ft Worth to buy a new '49 Pontiac and came home with the '48 demonstrater. It was loaded and didn't even have a clutch. That was when the dealerships had only one or two cars for demonstraters.
Three cars later Dad went to a '56 Chevy (in which I out ran everything in North Texas until the '57 Chevy's came out).
Even several cars after the Chevy, I heard my Dad say he would trade what he had for a new "48 Pontiac.

 

kool story i was born and raised in ennis texas, first car my grandfather bought was a 1947 chrysler town and country woody convertible he paid $125.00 for it.
Foot

 

why a color primer? if your not gona paint it why not shot a base coat.

 

i got it wrong,the painter says base coat with flattening agent. Im old as dirt the memory is getting weak.
Foot

 

thanks much
foot

 

And yet we wonder why Johnny Law has little respect for hot rodders!

 

What an asinine statement. The OP is talking about his Pontiac getting a base coat with a flattened clear and makes reference to something that happened 40-45 years ago and you throw some BS like this out there.

Nice ride, you always seem to find some cool looking ones.