History What color is this famous Chevy?

Jesse James 1954 Chevy...

 

Gene Winfield did the fade paint job...Call him maybe?

 

is yellow

 

Its about 7 or 8 different shades Gene's fade jobs are a closely guarded secret I could tell you but then I would have to kill you......

 

I did a paint job on a scale model for a carshow 7 years ago that was eerily similar. I used 3 different yellows. Pearl in a clear and about 3 varaitions of pearl with the yellows. The yellows were solids and metallics.

 

I think that car is now red, they repainted it and got rid of the Yellow fade.

 

Heinz 57 yellow.

 

What ever it was, it was bad ass.

 

Anymore takes...

 

Unless the red job is equally crazy I can't imagine why you would repaint it. That was the only truely good Monster Garage episode.

 

any one have pictures of it red?

 

Looks to me like:
1) a White base
2) ..with a transparent gold fade from the bottom(could be a "kandy" gold color, but some of the off-the-shelf transparent yellow oxide toners can look really similar when mixed with clear) .....possibly with some gold pearl suspended in it.
3) ..then a little bit of transparent orange fogged on along the lower edges
4) Then a couple coats of pearl-in-clear over the whole job (probably gold pearl, but i think I also see a tiny bit of sunset red)
....then clear over top.
Whew, i'm tired now.

 

pm Jesse , he might reply !

 

Nice, This really helps. I'm just gone start experimenting with my painter.

 

Looking for more pictures of this chevy?