What's up with the gold paint

Because it's the new flat black! Everyone following the leader and can't come up with something on their own!

 

My engine has been gold for a couple years, and now it's gold and black. That's ok, it'll cover up the orange peel?

 

I guess hot rods need BLING too, and spinners would be just plain stupid

 

My '55 Merc 292 was originally gold. I think there were 2 colors for them in '55 - gold and green. I like the gold, and wanted to keep it close to original

ORIGINAL (oilsoaked 50+ year old goldish green):

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RESTORED with '57 312 intake:

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here is another one for ya

 

mine's painted the blue/green it's supposed to be. maybe a sale at walmart???

 

Gold was probably popular with old show cars cuz it looked really good with a fresh set of gold colored carbs. And also a bunch of the anodized aluminum trim pieces in the early '60's were gold colored.

And it looked good with pretty much whatever color you decided to paint the car.

Just a thought.

 

a golden Y.