32 Ford sedan 60s California era Hot Rod class jalopy

[Marty W]

Well, it's a start, eh?

[Dirtman]

And a great start it is!!!

Rett

[Brian Conn]

...Looks like your off to a great start....just how big is it?

[Marty W]

Thanks for the comments!

David, we must have been channeling purple....

Brian, it is just your standard 1/25 scale.

[john2]

   I know  it will be a good one, Marty Car Toon.  Looking forward to seeing it come to life.

[sentsat71]

Lookin' Good!!

[Hondo]

Man, that thing is plum crazy, Marty.
Gonna be another great one.

[Olderndirt]

This time period is right in my wheelhouse, especially on west coast cars, and tracks. Some if not most of these cars paint colors were factor colors, that were a little off. That's because virtually all paint for body shops was mixed at the local parts house, using a factory formula. Paint mixing was an art, and therefore many parts houses had a lot of bad mixes sitting around. So, if you really want to represent the era, thing fifties, and early sixties, factory colors. Oh, and don't forget industrial colors. The local track had a couple of years when a lot of cars were painted with one of several tries at duplicating school bus yellow. Some of the racers would ask the paint guy to put a squirt of some other tint color in his batch, just to be different than the other guys. Real custom paint colors were almost never seen in my neck of the woods.

  Olderndirt

[Marty W]

Thanks for your input, OND, but it's staying purple. I am not from your neck of the woods.

If you want to get historical, quite a few drivers, including Parnelli Jones, painted their cars with flames, or red and white stripes (ever hear of Orval Allen?), and even checkerboard. Also, there were yellow and black cars, red cars, bright blue cars, etc. Hardly factory paint. We are talking Southern Cal. in the late 50s and early to mid 60s.

[Olderndirt]

Remember guys my "tiny neck of the woods" is one heck of a long way from big cities, or Detroit. And nobody even close to racer royalty raced here. And as for the polka dots, and checkerboard, patterns, they mostly were designed to hide the fact that their sponsors didn't give them enough paint for the job.

  Olderndirt

[David Bogard]

Here's a couple of clips of California Jalopy Racing in real time and there's not a lot of plain jane "factory" colors here. Not sure what you were watching OND but it's a shame you missed out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=103&v=uNvROo688Dw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=37&v=ViUYXveUfJ4

[BobD]

Here is a 1948 "zebra-striped" Buick that raced in my area in 1958. Though I'm not sure the color of the stripes.

149. by RD Dix, on Flickr

[BobD]

Another "dandy".....a 4-door polk-a-dot something; a Packard maybe??

66445_519111674800493_440002509_n by RD Dix, on Flickr

[Marty W]

And as for the polka dots, and checkerboard, patterns, they mostly were designed to hide the fact that their sponsors didn't give them enough paint for the job.

  Olderndirt

Again, not accurate, OnD. You didn't do your homework on the paint thing. For example, Orval painted candy stripes to stand out. His nickname was "Candy Cane". And I doubt that Parnelli didn't have enough paint to cover his whole car!

Or maybe I should have specified "Southern" California era.

[Marty W]

Here's a couple of clips of California Jalopy Racing in real time and there's not a lot of plain jane "factory" colors here. Not sure what you were watching OND but it's a shame you missed out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=103&v=uNvROo688Dw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=37&v=ViUYXveUfJ4

Gee, at least a couple of those cars looked a lot like purple to me! Thanks for the video link, David. Brings back memories of Saturdays watching jalopy races. AAhhhhh…..