Art & Inspiration My latest car related project

I am in the process ... thanks!

 

I think those guys are ripoffs... just my humble opinion...

 

Sorry, I think you went too far. Shouldn't have painted anything on the original parts. Might as well sandblast it all now and repaint the whole thing to new.

 

Ya, alchemy is right, but I still think it's great what you have done.

 

I think you've done a fantastic job so far.

 

Heres where a good faux patina artist would come into play or break out the filler and make it straight again then paint.
It will lose some character being straight but you will have a heck of a story to go with it and can say its a real one thats been restored.

 

here comes the red... View attachment 3077020 View attachment 3077020

 

So after all of the red is on, and the white has been touched up and clearcoat applied here we are...

 

Looks great !

 

hung up in shop...

 

Looks pretty good to me and it still has some character.

 

amazing job, well done, thanks for sharing.

 

So the legs and tail bolt-on from the factory? I'm impressed with the amount of effort you put into making this thing whole again. I may have opted to leave the center section without touching it up but it's still clearly an original one.

I got this today, had been cut up to make a heat shield for a stove pipe in a shed.

 

Neatoldcl***ics you should attach a picture of what you started with to the back. Crazy

 

Umm...Inked Monkey... I did , there are two pages so far view first page...

 

very cool Squablow, I have an old Standard Sign that I pieced together two halves, I will post that one next.

 

I think what he meant is that you should put a before and after pic in the same post, now.

 

Love what you did. Its like my cabrio, "saved from the s****per". Good job, be proud.

 

Actually, I think he meant attach a before picture to the back of the sign itself, in case this thread (and it's history) were ever to get lost.

My girlfriend has a painting of praying hands, that had some names written on the back, got it at a thrift shop, tracked the names down, turns out was painted by a nun about 100 years ago, ended up finding another picture in another junk shop from the same family about a year later. She put it in the newspaper (she's an editor) and found tons of history of the picture and the family. If it hadn't had that on the back, it'd just be another dusty old picture in a bin.

 

Squablow - Yep, now that I read it again, I believe you're right!

 

But since I suggested it...

 

here's the Standard signs that I combined to make one good one View attachment 3079742