Re: [SilverStreak] Painting the logos

["Cristi Cave" <chaya7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, a "shop that specialized in selling pin stripping paint"?   Should
be easy enough to find one of those in Santa Fe.  ;)  Seriously, though,
1950's Corvette Red is a terrific tip, one that I'm going to follow up
on. 
Cristi
stripping paint 

----- Original Message ----- 

> I have a 1958 Silver Streak Clipper with complete aluminum logos front
> and  rear.  They had small chip fragments of original paint in the
> corners of  some letters.  The "Silver Streak" was turquoise and the
> "Clipper" was  bright red. 
>  I had a gentlemen that has been doing antique car restorations  for
>  over 60 
> year look at the colors and he said they looks very much like the 
> late 1950s Ford Turquoise and the late 1950s Corvette Red.  I bought a
> very  small can of each at a shop that specialized in selling pin
> stripping paint (total cost of less than $15.00) and the paint
> matched perfectly to the original  chips. The paint has now been thru
> three years of weather and many  trips and look fine.
> 
> Hope that this may be of help, regards.  jim
>