We will insulate the cab.

Yesterday I took the headlight reflectors from 1939 and dropped them off to be cleaned and re plated with nickel. I'll buy a kit to convert them to H4 halogen. I saw in the Speedway catalogue an amber turn signal bulb to attach to the side of the H4 to provide turn signal in the same fixture. Anybodyb have experience with these?

Today I went to look at paint chips. I looked at 67 to 71 mercedes samples for a nice color with no metallic. I like ivory but might end up with biege gray. I may couple that with tobacco brown for the dash and window trim.

That's gonna be nice!

Thanks!

Does anybody have a beige gray car? That they can post pics of?

This is the perfect color combo for my truck!Fintail Walk-Around Slideshow by ctaylor738 | Photobucket

In preparing the body for paint, Michael found a number of areas which looked good until he sanded a bit on them, then he found them to be rusted from behind so had to weld in new metal. This all adds up but now the body is good and solid.

I have pretty well settled on a beige color for the body, either an old Mercedes color from about 1972 beige gray or a Volvo color from about 1976 Mojave beige. The Volvo color has a touch of yellow in it. I am planning a chocolate brown interior with orange piping if I can get it. I'll use orange for accent on the car inside and out.

Like I posted before, I really like your choice on the body and interior color. They are period colors that would suit the car well.

What strikes me as odd is that you are looking at color samples from a Volvo or a Mercedes from the 70's. These are fairly "modern" colors, if you can call the 70's modern. :D

There were so many colors from your car's era that are exactly the beige / beige gray you are looking for, why not choose an actual color from that period?

I know I've seen a Packard restoration on the History Chanel that is much like the color you are searching for.

I can't get real chips to look at. From the chips on the internet I can find there was a Studebaker color offered which is a dead ringer for either of the above mentioned paint colors.

I hear you. You really need the actual chips to look at. Pictures of cars on the internet can look real different in person.

Navajo Tan Light....this is an original Studebaker color which looks very similar to the more modern colors mentioned.

above.http://www.tcpglobal.com/autocolorlibrary/chips/1938-Studebaker-pg01.jpg

That is a link to 39 stude color chips.

That's a nice color.

Waddya think of Alleghany gray lt.?

Yeah, I like it too. They are pretty similar. The Navajo Tan has a pinkish cast to it which I am not sure is good or bad. I found a stude model available in either color and they are very similar.

The Navajo tan is similar to the Volvo color and the Allegany gray is similar to the Mercedes color. I bought a pint of the Volvo color Thursday but the Mercedes color was only available in a base clear coat which I'd rather not do.

Can no longer buy basic enamel/acrylic single stage auto paints in Canada. Or at least the body supply places I occasionaly frequent no longer have them. I thing they may have been banned by regulatory means up here.

Only water based color coats as well for two stage systems seem available now locally. It is hard to get paint mailed through our common border as well.

Mr. T,

Steve Stanford just posted his stylized version of your pickup!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=720521484637684&set=a.697437203612779.1073741827.697436353612864&type=1&theater

Bob

Tom - I just spent much of last week with the yellow Coupe Express street rod that you've probably seen in Studebaker enthusiast mags. It's owned by a guy named Jeff who lives in GA. He worked with my buddy David and I to remove the old roll cage and fab a new one in the Burke Bros/Parris Avanti, a famous LSR car (chassis #6). Anyhow, the Coupe Express is amazing though it has a SBC in it right now but Jeff is building a Stude for it.

The neat thing about Jeff's car is that it's DRIVEN - no magazine queen there!

Dan