MrBuick

It's more of a teal-ish green...Krylon has an engine paint that's pretty darn close, though not an exact match. http://www.skygeek.com/krylon-2007-ford-green-engine-paint.html

With updated suspension, brakes, EFI and some good tires, an old car can be just as reliable and safe as anything modern (with the exception of airbags), and much more exciting to drive in my opinion. Mike Finnegan hit the nail on the head with this quote..."If you can't pull into a gas station and strike up a conversation with your fellow man over your car, what are you doin'?"

Yet we unfortunately live in this time http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/legacy.images/smosh-pit/062011/warning-fails-4.jpg

I was certainly born in the wrong generation. There are very very few modern cars I like. Sure, many of them are mechanical and technical marvels, but they're all a bunch of silver blobs driving around. Even the modern cars with "style" don't touch cars from the 40's-60's.

Beautiful car...I've always enjoyed the mid-60's Fairlane.

I LIKE THAT!!!!!!

Would wax paper or butcher paper be a good alternative for stuff like this?

I've painted a few with International Orange...to me it's a "close enough" match. I've also heard people using the Testors Rattle-Can Hemi Orange lacquer. It's metallic, but apparently it's not that noticeable if you don't clear it.

Well, no I don't need a spray booth any more than I needed an airbrush, but it'll nice to have, especially since I want to have it in the basement with my hobby bench so I don't have to setup/tear down as much every time I want to use it, and I'm already 3/4 of the way through building it. But thanks for the info about scale finishes...I wasn't aware they existed. That may be the easiest way to go.

Fotki and Photobucket are both free with a paid option.....

I prefer the interface of Photobucket, but the storage rules and pretty much everything else of Fotki.

Awesome tip...so simple but not something I thought of. Thanks!

That's the one! Actually, I could do that as I just picked up an airbrush not long ago (haven't used it yet...in the process of building a paint booth to go along with it), but I hadn't considered doing so. My struggle would be knowing what colors to mix and what ratios to use until I get a feel for it, but with your color suggestions I may try that and see what I can come up with if I can't find anything else...any clue what ratio's you'd use, or would you just start 50/50 and go from there? Okay, I'll see if I can find a can of that and see how close it matches..I primer everything, so that should give me the necessary barrier I need. I considered that but I don't have many extra shades of blue yet so I figure if I'm gonna spend $15-$20 trying various shades, I may as well just buy the factory-code can and be done with it (which I may still end up doing).

The reason I don't subscribe isn't because of cost or because I'm not interested in the content, but because it's a paper-only magazine. I would be far more likely to subscribe to a digital version, even if it's just in simple PDF format. I'm just not big on having to store a bunch of magazines and try to remember which one had that article that I wanted to save for later...it's easier for me to throw it on my file server and archive it in an Access Database. I think a digital copy would be pretty easy to manage from a publishing standpoint, and could be offered at a discounted rate to attract customers who can't afford/aren't willing to pay for a physical subscription, considering there would be very minimal additional cost (if any) in making one, and you wouldn't have to pay postage, printing, etc. I know some, if not most people still prefer paper copies of stuff for a multitude of reasons, but there are also those of us who don't, and that number grows annually as younger generations who grow up using digital text books and reading on a Kindle rather than a paperback age. And just to head it off before people start saying, "well, if it's digital what's to keep people from giving away copies of it to anyone?" Well, I guess nothing unless you sell it through the Kindle store or something, but what's to keep a paper-subscriber from running a bunch of copies at work and distributing those? Nothing...plus, you have a very small amount of people who'd even do something like that with this type of material since you're dealing with more of a "community" than you do with larger, more "general audience" magazines...mostly anyone who'd be interested in this magazine in the first place is going to want to contribute to its creation. Maybe an idea for expanding your reader base...

I got a call today that I got a contract gig I've been pining for at a local auction company. I have a regular 9-5 (okay, technically 7-6) as a Senior Systems Administrator but I do a lot of contracting on the side...this one contract should net the same amount of extra income as all of my other side jobs do put together and I'll now be able to start unloading some of the more demanding/annoying/PITA clients and hopefully free up some additional hobby time.

Anybody know of a close match to Elkhart Blue GM code WA3649 in a rattle-can? I've found some from Automotive Touchup, but it's way more than I'll ever need (at least for the time that one would expect the paint to be good) and it's $20+S&H which is more than I really want to spend if I can avoid it...it doesn't have to be an exact color-code match, just something close. Thanks!

Amazing work! Looking great so far.

Beautiful car!

Absolutely, but a little of it depends on how deeply the site looks for the IP. You actually have 2 IP addresses when you use an internet connected device...the Private IP is used within the network you're currently connected to, and the Public IP, which is assigned to the DHCP server for said network (in most cases, the router). So, if the site looks for a Public IP (99% chance it does), it'll see the same IP even if the user bounces around between computers on the same network, but if they connect to various networks (physically or via Proxy), it would change. It's also easy to change your public IP address, because it's leased from the ISP unless you pay for a static address (one that won't change), so sometimes it'll change if you power cycle the router, and most routers also have a built-in way to release the lease on an address and request a new one from the ISP.

Technically their MAC address is their digital fingerprint...it can be spoofed as well, but is much more difficult to "fake" or hide than an IP address is and requires someone with a lot more technical skill to successfully pull off. The IP address is more like a lease on a shipping address....look at it as a package is being sent to an address (their public IP issued by the router), but the receiver is unknown (the receiver would be the MAC address). Unfortunately, most of the time the server logs for IIS or Tomcat (or whatever web hosting service is used) will have the MAC address logs, but the site administrators normally only have access to the IP addresses, which are easy to fake, change or hide.

The sad truth is, there's far too much "coincidence" going on to avoid high suspicion. There are two different forums where extremely new members who registered very closely together are pretty much immediately trying to trade and sell kits upon registration...the user DrDevil72 has already scammed people on this forum and has been caught here using different names, different accounts, and different IP addresses, and NOW someone on a different forum is tied to one of Devil's aliases and appears to be starting cycle all over again there. If you're legitimately not the same person or affiliated with that person, you have every right to be upset and I'm sure everyone here would gladly apologize, but the unfortunate truth is that pretty much everyone is suspect of you and you've done nothing to ease that suspicion.

Actually, you never know...I'd always entertain the right trade, but I've been after this kit since I got in the hobby without wanting to pay the usual $50 that people want for it, so it'd probably have to be a kit that I really want...PM me if you're serious and I'll think of some other things I've been after for a while.

As long as the paint has cured, I don't think you'll have any issues, especially if you wear gloves...I stopped having issues with the paint wearing off when I started wearing surgical gloves during building, which points to the fact that it's the oils in your hands that cause issues, not the handling itself.

Love it! I always enjoy when people swap a Hemi into non-Mopar cars...I've never understood "don't put a ___ motor in a ___" people.

This will be neat...I love old cars that aren't restored to sit in a show somewhere and not be driven...as you mentioned, it's always fun to see what different people did to the car over the years (and talking to the current owner if possible). It's funny to see what the current owner wants to undo that the previous owner(s) did.