I like your colors.... It should look great....

 

The only problem is the blue is a little too light for the Richfield colors - so I would have to go a little darker - but at least we know what the color combo looks like at full-scale.

 

Yeah, you have to match the Richfield colors as best you can or it would look just a little off to the Richfield folk. Can't wait to see the progress.

 

You are really off to a good start and I do like the color scheme and the whole theme with the Route 66. The next time I visit my daughter in Scottsdale, I may have to look for your truck.

 

Hello...I'd also like to extend my welcome to FTE. If you can find a stock flathead V8....it'd look pretty good in that truck!
Dan

 

Since you have a model to play with paint, you could consider the roof or roof and perhaps the "A" and/or "B" pillars... just a thought.

Cheers... Brian

 

Just noticed something about the (real) radiator: the owner BEFORE the owner I bought this off of put in a radiator for a V8, BUT plugged one of the top input holes and welded shut one of the bottom output holes. So it lead to it had a straight 6 in it all the time, just really bad judgement on the radiator repair!

Also, I was told Ford did ship out trucks (back in the day) with primer only so companies could have the truck painted however they wanted. With this, the interior went either a Dove Grey or a Tan color - instead of following the exterior color into the dash - which is something I might have to take into consideration...

 

Your radiator modification is not unusual. People did whatever they had to do to keep these old trucks running with minimal cash outlay. If a PO needed a radiator and if the only thing available was a v8 part, plugging a couple holes was pretty simple to do.

It is true that if someone wanted a non-production color, a truck could be ordered in primer and painted by the dealer or by the customer themselves, if desired. It may have been cheaper to do that than to pay for custom ordered factory paint. My Mercury is a perfect example. The original owner had a moving company and wanted a white truck. White was not a production color, so a primered one was ordered and the dealer painted the exterior white and had a flatbed installed before delivery. The interior was left in it's original primer. Being a deluxe trim truck, the seat was a two-tone maroon/grey and it had the grey interior trim panels.

I wouldn't recommend leaving your truck with the interior in primer. As I said previously, if, for instance, Richfield would have ordered a fleet of trucks, Ford would have painted them to Richfield specs and Ford would have made a package deal for all of them. They could very well been all blue with the outside of the cab done in yellow, if that's the way you would prefer it.

 

Yeah - I wouldn't leave the interior 'primered' but still trying to figure out which way to go - but it is pretty far down the line so no need to sweat over it - the exterior work begins in a month or so, so it takes priority when it comes to colors...

Thanks for the pic!

 

I would do blue with exterior in yellow.

 

Here is what I was looking for of a 48-50 two tone dash

 

Moe I like that two tone dash!

Ed I would probably have some time on Sunday 1/8 so let me know if that's a possibility. Have you done any of the Route 66 stuff in Pontiac, IL?

Rob

 

OK - getting a little closer to getting this model completed!

I am mocking it up to get an idea of how I want my paint to be:


As you can tell, I have printed out a few things to stick to the sides. I will probably have more things on the real truck - they will be just too small to do it on the model...



I'm trying to get the model in the next week or two as I will be working on the real thing!!

I'm also thinking of a few creative pin stripes which will set off the truck - but nothing too fancy where I blow the whole concept.

 

I am in Bloomington / Normal for the weekend. Let me know if you are around Sunday...

 

Ed I'm sending contact info to your website info address. Hope to meet up with you.

Rob