stone woods & cook

anyone know the correct colour of the s.w.c car?

thanks Pete

 

Why not call Mike at the SWC website number and ask?

DW

 

now why didn't I think of that, thanks man

 

Weren't there more paint jobs than one?

 

Larry, good point, that was my question, which color? It was light blue, light blue metallic, darker blue, black, and those are just the colors I remember...

 

I grew up in Bellflower a couple of blocks away from Doug Cook"s shop and me and a couple school buddies would hang out there and watch Doug work on the Swindler A which was a light blue metallic. Attached are some photos of the restored Swindler A with the correct color of the original Swindler A as it was in 1962.

 

..... And another...

 

There was also a black version....

 

Ok, is this right? The first Willys was a B/GS car called the Swindler II. Then they bumped it up to A/GS until they finished the second car called the Swindler A to run A/GS and they bumped the Swindler II back to B/GS?

I think the Swindler II was blue, then black and then blue again, but it's kind of a WAG.

 

B5 Blue.....hehehe.....

 

The black version was amazing.

 

When they came north in '64, it was black, Doug ran a 9.80 !!!!!!!

 

I remember reading that the origanal SWC car is now a street rod.

 

No it's not. It was a street rod now restored....

 

Exactly what I was thinking

 

Love that restored version

 

You sir are lucky!

 

This is the early one that was running around these parts as a street rod back in the late 70's. It was owned by Joe Trilio. It had and still has the original Martinez (sp?) interior in it. He sold it and restored it for the new owner.



A later version, darker blue....



The black one.....



All of em are TITS!!

 

I know if you have a black one and put the right vinyl lettering on you will get trophy's at car shows..The fact that the car has M11 front and slapper bar rear suspension doesn't seem to matter...A visual clone I guess, mechanically not even close...

 

thanks for the replies and the history, the colour I was looking for is on the car in my attached picture, looks to be either a metallic colour or perhaps a candy blue.
cheers Pete

 

while i love all 3 versions my fav is the darker blue one

 

Hows that Willys going Pete,

 

ok thats first pic ive seen of the blue and gold one

 

The darker blue on the Swindler A looks a lot like Chevy Marina Blue to me. Pretty popular color in the 60's.

And just to be clear there are pictures of at least 2 different cars (maybe 3??), with different paint jobs on each car, in this thread.

 

there were 3 cars i think.....the one that the family has now was the blue a Gas, the other one shown was/is the swindler II but was the first....then there was one more that crashed....maybe the black one?

 

I have the scale model kit of the black version.. But the kit came with decals to do either the black or Marina Blue car....

 

Your picture is of the "restored" version of the last Swindler A car. There was a feature on it in Hot Rod back in Oct of 82 when it was first restored. There was another feature on it in the Rodder's Journal #6 from 12-15 yrs ago. From all the pictures I've seen, it looks to be candy blue over a white base or maybe pearl white base. When they last ran the original car in 67, it was more like candy blue over a silver base or just a metallic blue. The paint had much more of a metallic look back then.

 

Yea, while I mentioned Marina Blue as a close match, it's probably a pretty sure bet that the car was a custom Candy Blue.

I just picked up Don Montgomery's book (while I was looking for something else) and noticed the dust cover has the Swindler A in black on it. Looks like it was black in 1964/1965. Also a picture of the car painted blue with the gold racing stripe dated 1966. Looks like it was painted the same silver blue as the Swindler II from 62 to 64.

 

I'm looking at my Oct.97' copy of STREET RODDER right now and it has a centerfold starting on P.194 of the S-W-C car and it says when Mike restored it in 82' it was painted "Deep Candy Blue" buy "Ruben". It doesn't say anything about being sprayed over a white or silver base.

 

You might check out this first poster:http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=787817#post8752320 I have the same one in my garage but the car is actually lighter with better lighting.In 1967 when I was selling for Mopar I had a '67 GTX and a '67 Barracuda demo car the color was similar and was called Electric Blue Metallic.