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This is truly one of those stories about finding an old race car in a barn. Once a 60's drag racer, the car was found by Phil Sonner. Being an avid gasser fan, Phil purchased the car intending on restoring it to an old gasser style Anglia. Phil brought the car to us so we could put it back to it's former glory. After being stripped, we repaired the shoddy body and metal work that was completed in the 60's. Take a look at the following pictures for the results . . . |
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| This is the way the car came into the shop. |
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| After disassembly of the front suspension and fenders. |
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| The interior and floor pan. |
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| The block and heads were installed to build the headers and set clearances for the oil pan over the straight axle. At this point, the body work is almost done. |
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| The new motor installed. A 350 Chevy, bored .030" over with a 6-71 Weiand Blower running 2 Holley 650 carbs. The transmission is a 350 Turbo by Rossler connected to a Ford 9" rear end with 3.73 gears. Also notice the Fender-Well headers (just like the set in Brett's caricature). |
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| The front straight axle was retained to give the old gasser look and ride height. |
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| Crager SS wheels give it the authentic 1960's look. |
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| In the booth and ready for the first coat of paint. |  |
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| The base color of the tri-coat paint is a deep red color, almost the color of brick. |  |
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| The top coat color is candy red. |  |
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| Clear is the final coat of paint, which in these pictures looks as though it is still wet, even though it is already dry to the touch. |  |
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| Notice the deep rich candy color. |  |
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| A shot of the flame cutouts on the side panels of the engine compartment. |  |
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| The engine and drive train back in the car. |  |
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| A clear shot of the Blower, Bug Catcher and Headers. |  |
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| This is the actual ride height of the car. The front fenders and front clip are next to be assembled and then onto final buffing and polishing. |  |
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| This picture starts a complete series of pictures detailing the process we use to paint flames on a car. The very first step is one of the most painstaking, drawing the flames on, over the paint, and constantly altering them until the desired pattern is obtained. |  |
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| Then the process of taping begins. Here we used one eighth inch tape to precisely follow all of the small curves from the hand drawn design. |  |
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| Masking off everything but the flames to ensure we don't get any over spray where we don't want it. |  |
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| Ready to begin the base coat. |  |
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| For this application we started with a base coat of white. |  |
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| And immediately covered that with light yellow. |  |
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| Jim starting to put on the first of the three highlight colors. For this car orange will be the main highlight color used for the front of the flames. |  |
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| The first highlight color almost done. |  |
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| Just a little more orange to the some of the light spots to finish up the first two colors: orange over yellow |  |
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| Here the final two colors have been applied. Bright red for the middle of the three highlight colors and blue to finish off the tips. |  |
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| The masking paper removed, exposing just the flames. The precision tape is left in position until all colors have setup enough not to pull or distort when the tape is removed. |  |
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| Jim carefully removing the fine detail tape revealing the final flames. |  |
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| Four coats of clear coat on top of the graphics were used to "bury" the flames. This leaves the surface on top of the graphics as smooth as glass. |  |
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| The last step before the final clear coat was applied was to outline the flames with blue pin striping. Notice how the graphics look as if they're coming out of the flamed cutouts. |  |
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| The final job. Now some fine buffing and the flames and base coat paint will be as deep and polished as the fenders. |  |
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| After buffing and detailing. |  |
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| The finished car. Ready for the nearest Car Show or Dragstrip. |  |
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