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Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Boise, Idaho
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Forty years ago today........
It was today Aug 1, 1977, FORTY YEARS AGO I painted my truck in our garage. My third paint job behind my 64 Nova (White Lacquer) and my brothers Model A (Yellow acrylic enamel,) I was on my way in a career in the auto body industry. The photo was taken on Martin Street in front of our house (well down the street a way.)
I wanted "Competition orange" a very hotrod color. So I went to Township Auto Supply here in Fremont where I bought paint and looked in the color chart for Corvette Orange, one problem Corvette used for a few years Omaha Orange, a GM fleet color that was used on the CalTrans trucks! I bought a gallon for $33 and brought it home. When I opened the can in my garage with the truck sitting there ready to paint I almost puked, it wasn't Competition orange! I could have brought it back and pumped it up with some red toner or something but I knew nothing about that and went ahead and painted it with what I had. I'll never forget the next Pumpkin Festival (it was only a few years old at the time) in HalfMoon bay they thought I was part of the show! LOL I sprayed it with a Craftsmen paint gun my parents bought me for my high school graduation gift. They knew where I was going, and it made perfect sense. I would go on to feed my family and put a roof over my head using those skills I learned in that garage with that Craftsmen gun, photo below hanging in my garage today. It was also the day I started my mustache, more on that later. Brian ![]()
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1948 Chevy pickup Chopped, Sectioned, 1953 Corvette 235 powered. Once was even 401 Buick mid engined with the carburetor right between the seats! Bought with paper route money in 1973 when I was 15. "Fan of most anything that moves human beings" |
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