Custom Paint Job Magazine Cover

High Performance Cars 1972 (June?) edition

Dig the groovy paint job!!! wow



Reminds me of seeing many similar paint jobs on cars and custom vans back in the day...

Ray

Might be a bit much for a car but great for a bike.

I think its kinda cool, but then I really love flames and Gene Winfield style fade away paint jobs.

Makes you wonder where it is now...

-Kurt

Reminds me of one from my neighborhood when growing up. Known as the "Sundowner" Mach 1 to everyone it was painted a purple/maroon color with a paisley stripe down the side that crossed over the roof. The decklid had a sunset painted on it with the "Sundowner" name and the hood had a tapestry of a sunset on a lake.

One of my classmates had the car given to him for his 16th birthday. When his parents took it to a speed shop to have the engine overhauled before giving it to him, they discovered it was a Boss 351. I went to look at it after the rebuild. Yep, and original R code with yellow paint and stripe terminations in the door jambs. Perfect Mach 1 carpet under the purple shag carpet, and the 4-speed had been replaced by an automatic. Apparently a previous owner had "fixed it up" for his daughter in the 70's , removing the manual setup and painting it in a scheme his daughter would appreciate.

I tried to work a deal for the car with my friend. He said "no thanks" he wanted to keep it. 6 Months later he traded it to a budget car lot for a chevy 4x4 truck. I never did see the car again.

Makes you wonder where it is now...

-Kurt

Click to expand...

+1 probably repainted years ago

+1 probably repainted years ago

Click to expand...

Unfortunate. These airbrush jobs are a bit of history in their own right, and though you can homage them, you can't replicate them.

Repainting it is something akin to restoring a wrecked movie car. All of a sudden, it's no longer identifiable as being the unique thing it is/was.

-Kurt

+1 probably repainted years ago

Click to expand...

Unfortunate. These airbrush jobs are a bit of history in their own right, and though you can homage them, you can't replicate them.

Repainting it is something akin to restoring a wrecked movie car. All of a sudden, it's no longer identifiable as being the unique thing it is/was.

-Kurt

Click to expand...

I meant that someone probably stripped that paint off and painted it red or something

My kind of stuff.

I think the paint is cool! That paint job is 42 years old and is a work of art! I dont know about the cars exist these days, but if I had the chance to buy it I would have keeped it in that color! There are not many left out there who can do a airbrush job like that