The Silver Streak E-mail ListArchive Files[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [SilverStreak] Painting the logos
Jim, See if you can find out the exact brand name of the paint. I would like to know. Tom tried at least one and it quickly deteriorated, thus his successful trial and use of model paint, pricey. -Eddie- Houston, TX ----- Original Message ----- From: <MSC06USNret@aol.com> To: <sslist@tompatterson.com> Cc: <MSC06USNret@aol.com> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [SilverStreak] Painting the logos >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
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