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Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:42 am

Finally found the right oval. It's an unrestored 56 with a Judson supercharger. Took me a full day to polish the paint. Turned out pretty well.
On the way home

Polishing out the paint.

The Interior

The Judson

All cleaned up

Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:07 am

Wow it cleaned up super nice, is it OG paint?.. Super nice find.

Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:25 am

Great score...!! cars like that are getting harder to find Congrats :wink:

Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:28 am

vintagevolks wrote: Wow it cleaned up super nice, is it OG paint?.. Super nice find. The interior is original but the exterior had a laquer respray, in close to the original colour. many moons ago. Looks alright though.

Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:43 am

Thats sweet!

Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:46 am

Wow! =P~

Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:48 am

Beautiful!!
Maybe I'm going crazy, it looks more like Strato Silver than Horizon Blue?

Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:51 am

Skim wrote: Thats sweet! Thanks. I'm pretty stoked. There aren't too many cars like this up here in the north eastern US and Canada. Most of them are rotted along the bottom 6".

Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:01 am

HerrrKafer wrote: Beautiful!!
Maybe I'm going crazy, it looks more like Strato Silver than Horizon Blue? The respray colour is a little darker than it should be. You can kind of see the original paint colour on the apron inside the engine compartment in my picture above. That same lighter colour is throughout the interior, door jams, under the hood, and shows through the respray colour in spots where it's thin.

Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:14 am

Ah, got it.
Truly a great find, it looks gorgeous. The foglights finish it off very well.

Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:24 am

That's a great find. It cleaned up very nice. :D

Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:45 am

Congrat's

Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:39 pm

Rich's 50 wrote: Congrat's Thanks. You too. That early vert body in primer is beautiful.

Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:53 pm

Nice find. Still not Horizon Blue though, Horizon Blue is a pale non metallic blue. My guess would also be Strato Silver.

Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:31 pm

Teeroy wrote: Nice find. Still not Horizon Blue though, Horizon Blue is a pale non metallic blue. My guess would also be Strato Silver.
You may be right. Does this picture help?

Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:36 pm

Stratos Silver.

Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:36 pm

Thanks.

Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:37 pm

What did you use to polish it? came out real nice!

Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:40 pm

64 Tom wrote: What did you use to polish it? came out real nice! 2000 grit wet sand, 3M heavy cut compound on a wool pad, followed by 3M finishing polish on a foam pad.

Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:48 pm

=D> now it just needs to be driven!