Re: [SilverStreak] Painting the logos

["Eddie" <Eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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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