Then and Now... Trick Paint from 1972

I'm curious as to how well these paint ideas could be done now in a wrap. They're always improving the capability. So far, I haven't seen in a wrap anything as high gloss as buffed clear, but maybe in time...

 

Camaros and vehicle wraps oh my!!
Damn, this thread has some ''hang time''!

 

My buddy Mike's Vette when we hauled it home. Bet that fog job was done with rattle cans. Told him I'd conk him on the head if he touched the fog job, extra taillights, or flairs! Not really. But I would give him a severe verbal lashing.

 

Wraps are for Christmas presents.

 

Yeah well, when the paint to wrap cost ratio is 2:1 and the time ratio is 10:1, I'm definitely looking at options. Besides, IT IS CHRISTMAS!!!

 

Traditional hot rodding to the core!

 

The first "custom" paint job I recall seeing was on a (pearl?) white '62 Vette. It had a frosted rainbow about two feet wide going the whole length over the top,front to back. At the one-horse local gas station me & my bikin' buddies used to hang-out at & pound soda's. The hood was up and the driver was spitting in the radiator and cussing up a storm. Learned some new "bad" words that day!
At the time, that Vette was the most beautiful car I'd yet seen!

 

Obviously the same, old complaint. If it's not a '32 Ford couple on devon slicer crossplies, painted dark blue it's got no place in this universe.
Whatever you do don't put lace paintjobs on the roof of your rides.

 

I already did, you didn't warn me in time.

 

Yep! Just like a wet fart.....

 

when i was a pubert , there was this old guy , probably earlie 30s . im talking earlie 70s here . anyway , he had a 55 cheby . straight axle , pontiac rear , 327 , with hilborn , 4 speed muncie . the wildest purpleand cream lace job i ever saw . i dont think it ever saw a strip . but when he took it for a couple runs up and down the neighborhood everyone would come out to watch . wish i had pix . cause that car was bad ass . and if i ever came across it , i sure as hell woudnt change it . its about as traditional as you can get . lace and all !!

 

Strip Tripper Willys. Think it was painted at a Seattle body shop?

 

Ed Leopold`s LaSalle. And his Merc.

 

Mike Mitchell

 

Lonnie Gilbertson

 

Andy Brizio

 

Mild by some standards but I sure was smitten by it back in the day.

 

I worked at Rick's when I was 16. He is still a great painter and a good friend

 

I love the styles back then, the Montra of "dare to be different". Cars today have become so cookie cutter designed that it's so nice to see something different.

 

It was built and painted at my shop, Exhibition Automotive, in Kent, wa. in 1969

 

That thing is just awesome!

 

Is that the same paint from 1969? If so WOW!

 

Yup.

 

This is one my local 70's favorites. This is the only picture I have of it. I saw it the Wooden Chicken cruise in a number of years back. Paint by the Beard, And just a bit of chrome for accent.

 

^Chrome fender!!

 

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