MGL

I think you are on to something, we tend to associate with what we know. I tend to notice the trucks with the white top. My brother had a blue '69 that had a white top but if I remember correctly, the truck was a work truck for the glass shop (Banner Glass, a small chain in the DC metro area) next door to my dads shop. Dad had a body shop and its likely that he painted the top white rather than the factory since to this day I don't think Banner Glass ever bought anything that wasn't all white or all blue. Of course having said that somebody will likely post many pictures proving me wrong. I think if I paint the model blue first, then the top white, then weather it slightly, I may not be 100% accurate but I won't be wrong either.

I wonder if one was a dealer upgrade and the other was factory? Maybe some dealers ordered a bunch of white trucks that they could sell as fleet or work trucks and then painted as needed for customers that wanted a color combo they didn't have in stock.

I always enjoy looking at your black paint jobs.

This is what I suspect they did except that in a lot of cases the light color tends to be the accent color ( blue with white top, red with white top ). If the light color is sprayed first then when the main color weathers it should have the light color underneath. this would be obvious on a car primed in red oxide like Ford used but not so much on one primed in gray like Chrysler used. I would suspect the first color to go on would be whatever color the door and trunk jambs end up. I think a field trip to a junk yard is in order. I need to find a rear view mirror with some patina to mount above the consol in the Engineering Control Room on my ship to hang the fuzzy dice from anyway.

Wow, glad you stayed with it, it turned out great!

I'm planning a 69 Ford truck build and have been doing some research on the paint process they used on the assembly line. Specifically I'm wondering if they painted the whole truck the base color and then masked off and painted the second color or if the second color only had primer underneath. I know eventually I will find something in the google machine that will answer my question but in the mean time I found this neat little reference. http://fordofwestmemphis.blogspot.com/2009/01/1960-1969-ford-trucks.html . The pictures I've found look like it could go either way. One thing I'm positive of is that Ford liked the red oxide primer. But this got me thinking we could probably benefit from a pinned thread in the questions topic that had information about the different manufacturers assembly line methods, primer colors and other 1/1 paint related stuff.

I almost never do anything beyond plug-wires, fuel line, and flocking. Anything more takes too long, things start to pile up and I lose interest. Like Snake said, body work, paint, and stance so they look good on the shelf, although for me the fun is in the engine so I almost never build curbside's.

Thanks Bill and Scott, I will build it as planned.

I am building a 49 ford, mostly out of the box and stock. According to the internet in 49 the flathead was dark blue or, later in 49, bronze. The Mercury flathead was green from 49 to 51 but had a 4 inch stroke (as opposed to the 3.75 inch stroke of the ford). Outside of the engine color and without buying any resin pieces are there any other changes I need to make to the kit engine to make it look like somebody swapped in a mercury engine? I'm not really going for strictly stock as the paint color won't be correct and I'm shooting for a mid to late fifty's feel. Would this have been a common swap back then? I realize OHV engines would have been readily available but for a guy on a budget it seems reasonable to swap in a mercury engine if it just bolts right in.

This is cool!

That's cool!

I'm not in love with this style but you did a great job with it, nice to see it finely finished. With the retro paint job I wonder how it would look with the mirrors on top of the fenders?

Looks cool Chuck.

Your paint work is impressive and the wheel choice is perfect, great job.

Nice, one of my favorite cars.

Looks really good, nice color choice.

Nicely done. Makes me want to start on mine.

Very impressive, great work!

Very nice, I like it a lot.

Nice job.

Very nice.

I can't tell if your joking or not but I think I would buy a Reliant Robin. It would really be cool if it included a Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust.

I could get onboard with these.

71 Country Squire wagon, 51 Dodge Wayfarer.

Nice job, you nailed the stance.