Very classy! Although the brochure doesn't show any 2-tone wagons, your scheme goes right along with some of the New Yorker sedans: http://www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/chrysler/c53/bilder/3.jpg
Love that two-tone combo. Looks factory and very clean. Sure is a nice lookin hearse! I love the wide whites too. With a late Hemi that would be a great cruiser. But I'll bet it's smooth now.
True - when folks kicked the bucket back then, bought the farm, cashed in their chips... they did it with style, darn it!
The color combo really looks good. Very much enhances the already pretty lines of the body. Also makes it look smaller in a way. Now it is going to be hard to have to wait to do it since you know how good it will look. Not that it isn't good looking now, but the next step will be a real eye catcher. Isn't this fun? We get these ideas like "hmm, I wonder if" and then we do some photoshop stuff and next thing you know, another project on the list of must do's.
Thanks. Yeah, it is fun - and daydreaming is free! I have only to remind myself that I'll eventually get to do all hobbies, as long as I keep earning money to support them. And yet... just as I was getting hooked on the notion of a two-tone, I saw this tonight on BringATrailer.com. All original '50 Olds Rocket 88 fastback, lowered a bit and a few mods under the hood to make it pop. But the best part is the original paint; if you look closely you can indeed see the worn, reddish primer peeking through on the trunk. I've emailed the seller to find out if that dynamite shine is wax, a new clearcoat, etc. Bringing back paint from the dead like that? I'd forget all about two-tones for a good long while.
Update, the seller waxed the heck out of most areas, and indeed shot some clear over the particularly worn-through spots. What a great result.
A great idea - looks good, cost effective, just makes sense if you can get it to look like the other one. Would leave a lot more room in the budget for power train upgrades.
Well, Christmas came early this morning. About a month ago I spotted some T&C bumpers on eBay, in great shape. They'd been re-chromed nicely in the 1980's, wrapped in newspaper, popped in the trunk of a project car and forgotten about for the next 30-odd years. The seller was asking $500 OBO. I offered $350 and he took it. They've been sitting in far north Bemidji, MN waiting for me to figure out how to get them down to Chicago. Last week I was able to connect with some North Dakotans by using Craigslist's rideshare section. They were passing through Bemidji on their way to visit family in Milwaukee, and were all too happy for me to treat to a hundred bucks worth of gas. And just like that, poof. Near-show quality bumpers. The only drawback? The rest of the pitted old pot metal will look even worse now.
Nice. I need to find a deal like that for bumpers for my 67 Coronet hardtop. I keep getting quotes of $600 for just one rechromed front bumper (or $500 if I turn in a core).
In other news, the wagon has been in the shop since late June. They simply haven't had time to work on it, and I haven't been pushing much, with all the other things keeping us busy lately. They put in a pair of donor front springs which I'd supplied, but almost immediately one shot through the bottom pan that holds it in (it was visibly rusted and everyone half-expected it to happen). So I've gone back to the donor vehicle for a solid pair of donor lower control arms. No rust, and we should be back in business. ~~~~~ One of the main design drawbacks of this wagon are the tiny taillights. 6 volt or 12, they're just too damn small to be visible, especially during the day at at the speed of today's drivers. So we're adding a 3rd, high-mounted brake light. Wanting something that blended in as much as possible, I surfed around for a couple weeks and landed on a center-mounted trunk brake light from a late 40's Desoto limo. It's the right style, size and even has the heavy, red glass lens. 25 bucks - thanks, Tennessee Craigslist! We'll hold off on installing until we do the big conversion (12v, new chassis, motor, etc.) and while we're still not positive about what that'll involve - the current thinking is that because the original frame is in rough shape... we may drop the entire body and interior onto a late-model Dodge Durango, with a 5.7 Hemi. By matching the ride height and wheels as closely as possible, we ought to retain the original look.
It was purely dumb luck on my part, and I know I dodged a much greater cost down the road. I'll certainly keep an eye out for the ones you need.
