Meatball got me going in a 60's style line....you know, someone who was there first hand I'm leaning towards using sand beneath the car and around the perimeter of the car. The guy who does my stripeing is getting a chopped 32 ( fiberglass) grill shell. We are going to use it as our placard. I sent an e-mail to the show people to see if we have power at each car. If we do, I'm going to use the color wheel......tacky, but very cool ! Thanks Jay !!! I have the picture that Spike took for the foldout in Rod and Kulture last year along with the magazine. I'm going to build some stantions to hold a rope or cable or whatever to block off the car from the public. Usually, I don't hang around a show. To me it's about getting in the car and driving. This show thing will be new to me and I could use the $5,000 if I were to win. Either way, just to have been invited makes me pretty happy. John
I used white sand poured into flames and then sprayed blue color chrome around the edges of the flames. The color of the car was a light metallic blue and the color chrome was a darker blue. Also used Angel hair as was common in 59-60. Won second in mild custom at the Ft Wayne Auto show. I had a placard on an easel that listed all the modifications. Ol Blue
Hey ...that's a good picture of the car John if you want your show board grillshell painted like the car just let me know. Plowboy had a shitload of angel hair in detroit. He would know where to get it. Clark
stupid question here! What is angel hair! I like it with sauce, and a couple meat balls, but I dont think you want it near your car!
Angel hair was normally used in the 50's and 60's as Christmas decoration. It is white, made of glass fibers and has a 'wispy' very thin hair like consistency to it. Your parents and grandparents probably used it when you were a kid. Plowboy had white monkey fur carpet around his car in Detriot. You can buy it at the material superstores like Joann Fabrics. The guys from Colorado upstairs in Detroit had a shitload of angelhair around their three cars.
For our T-bird club's 50th Anniversary display at Kansas City's World of Wheels about 4 years ago I made several oversize ornaments out of extruded polystyrene insulation - shaped them with a knife and a rasp, sanded them down and covered them with aluminum and gold-colored foil. For showing off the underside I've used dressing mirrors nailed to simple 1x4 wood frames painted to match the car, with the ends tapered to put the mirrors at an angle (ok, I acutally used some scrap house trim that had weathered white paint - probably had real lead in it ). I could hide stuff like cleaning supplies under the mirror frames. The floor cover was heavy black plastic taped down with black duct tape. Another year one of our guys had 4'x8' checkerboard panels that he arranged for his display that he got from a home improvement store rather than individual tiles. I've also made large-format posters from scanned period ads that were printed out on large-format printers at Kinko's, and made sign boards in a desktop publishing program for car and historical info mounted to Foamcore with spray adhesive. You can hang the posters from a 3/4" PVC tube frame, or make easels out of 1/2" EMT electrical conduit held together with a thumbscrew/wingnut, some small chain and an opened eyehook in two of the legs to set the board in. We also made rope stanchions out of aluminum pie plates or coffee cans filled with concrete, and set PVC fittings in them to press in PVC stanchions with T-fittings on top to run rope through. I like low-buck and quick-to-disassemble displays, especially when the bits and pieces of them can be recycled for use in a home improvement project.
It usta be what went in the cannister filter for fish aquariums and was available at or thru pet stores/suppliers. It's glass so it's bad news if stupid yard apes eat it thinking it's cotton candy so the consumer products police have run it off the market. It went away just like the heavy metals necessary for paint color life went away because people can 't or won't keep their damn kids from eating the house, furniture and car...
For a show card...when do you need one? I can hook you up or hit up another pinstriper on here...its what we do.. as for the angel hair...find an hvac guy tat might have some you can borrow or buy from...expensive for an amount that would cover a display..good luck do what you want its your car...if they dont lke it be glad they are not the judges...half the cars in the basement in Cobo Hall last year werent running or were trailered in like the "Queens" upstairs Roth,Barris and Winfield were show car builders too! merry christmas al
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