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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
Perhaps I should add that most facilities had smaller paint "pots" that were loaded with the special color, so that the vehicles could be run without polluting the mainstream paint tanks and lines. This minimized the amount of waste, too, when cleaning and purging the lines to load the next special color.
Some of the assembly plants run the special color jobs through their paint repair system in an attempt to do the same thing (in the main paint shop immediately following body shop and prior to trim; not the paint repair area at the end of the final line). K
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
Very nice! looks like Richard Petty blue to me...
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
Looks great. Is that a lwb or swb?
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Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Orland, CA
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
It is a lwb, but the utility bed makes it seem very short. Got a new ignition switch and it fired right up once I put some fuel in the carb. Gas tank is completely empty, but I am going to clean it since it sat for years without a cap.
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Location: Orland, CA
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
That guy u bought that truck from use to have a '63-'64 nova wagon parked next to it years ago, wonder what happened to it?
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
Haven't done much to the truck, but thought I would post a few pictures.
So far I have changed the fuel tank, put on some aluminum wheels from a 2003 duramax, carpet, new carburetor, and buffed out the paint. Starting to get closer to daily driver status. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
Looks great ,cleaned up good .
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
Nice score !
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
Real respectable lookin' truck right there.
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
Dang man please don't change out that bed. Can you imagine....lower that bad boy with 20's and change it out to big block and you would have the best hot rod in this country. Sweet ride!
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
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It would look sweet lowered with it though. |
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
That is so cool! GREAT find.
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
I would love to figure out what paint code is currently on the truck. After going through it I have figured out that it was indeed repainted by the original owner. This is where the problems start.
He says that it was resprayed with the same color, but it is showing some of the original paint underneath that seems to be a much more greenish turquoise than what is seen in the pictures. I know there will be fading and things of that nature, but it is a pretty drastic difference to me. (I will try and take a close-up picture of both colors later this afternoon). I really want to do a budget-ish frame off restoration since I can do most of the work myself pretty easily, but I can't decide on the color. Every guy around here that sees it in person can't stand the color. Every girl (including my wife) absolutely loves the color. My first choice was going to be a dark red similar to the new corvettes, but I am wavering. I could definitely see redo-ing the truck in the current color, but doing a white interior instead of the black. Kinda going for the beach cruiser look. I have no problem straying from original stuff with this truck. Any thoughts? |
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
This was the red I was thinking of. VERY expensive which is a bummer.
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
Even though that really is a nice looking red, I personally don't care for really modern looking colors like that on older vehicles. I for one really love that shade of blue so I'd have a hard time not staying with it. At the end of the day I'd do whatever makes you happiest, I wouldn't worry too much about what other dudes think of the color, its a gorgeous truck regardless.
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
A little bit of the original paint showing through.
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
Nice color!
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
nice truck, you stole it for $800 would make me a great welding truck
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
Great Find and Get
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
Awesome! I'm along for the ride. Is this going to become a Build Thread?
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
I will probably start a build thread soon. I have a regular bed and a cab that I need to pick up so I can start the process.
I checked out the local pick-n-pull with my brother yesterday, and got a gas cap and ashtray. Waiting to hear back on a price for a 4L80E transmission they had. |
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
So today I took an extra gauge cluster I had laying around, and did a practice run redo. Didn't turn out terrible, so tomorrow I am hoping to work on the original one.
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Re: Just pulled this 72 out of the weeds has "special paint"?
That's excellent! I bought an extra cluster myself to do exactly the same thing, lol. Practice before doing the real one.
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