getting mine hand painted today....

(I do upholstery work on the side & live in Manchester, pa)

starting out good.

 

That looks great. I love sign art new and old.

 

Looks great, I could watch those guys letter all day... amazing skill.

Wally

 

My buddy's grandpa used to paint all the local panel trucks back in the day. I love tyhe signage, new and old. Yours looks great!

 

A great looking truck! and too bad you are so far away from me, my upholstery is next...

 

That really looks like it belongs there, nice truck!

 

Looks good.... be sure to show us the finished product.

 

Looks great!!

 

That looks great!

Hand painting (signs) is a dying art. A lady in her 60s did mine in similar way.

 

That looks great!

So, I'm still learning... I see your front wheels are an 8 lug pattern. Is that because it's a 4WD? Is it a Marmon Harrington? Or was that a standard lug pattern for the F3? What size are your wheels? Please enlighten me.

 

Very nice looking truck, the sign art really looks great!

I have long been interested in airbrush/pinstriping/signpainting but have never spent the time to get proficient at any of them. But like others, I still like to watch others who have mastered the art. Here is a link to a signpainters website where you can watch a documentary on the subject Sign Painters: The Movie

 

Ilya , no excuse for any one not seeing you coming down the road .That panel is BRIGHT !!The sagging door handle is killing me !

 

Not a shop connection - But here's what the door of my donor cab originally said:

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Reclamation
U.S. Government
For Official Use Only

The cab came from Desert Springs, California and I had it hitch a ride on a pallet in a furniture truck that was traveling to the east coast. It took a couple of weeks to get brought to Maine.

I thought about salvaging the door lettering, but it was too far gone to be readable from any distance. The other door was really tough to see all the letters.

Yep it's a former gov't vehicle. Now when I'm in the truck I feel like goofing off and watching other guys do all the work while I park in the shade wearing a hard hat and resting a clipboard on my knee with a new Playboy issue featuring Marilyn Monroe.

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Truck art work is always nice. Friend here in NY has a wood milling business, had the info painted on the doors of a 72 F300 he restored. !@#$%^ NY State inspectors made him get a Fed DOT number be cause he was "advertising his business." The truck wouldn't pass vehicle inspection until the DOT numbers were on the truck. Now he has to go through DOT and NY inspections.

 

This in on my 56 and the other I took on a International last weekend.Sorry for the sideways pic.