Hi all,
After much deliberation, I have decided to restore Lil Twister as the Lil Twister drag race car instead of doing it as a restored car for Flight judging, so I guess I'll look for another '57 project in the future to use all my extra '57 parts on!
A pic of the left door is attached showing the painted on letters, car and twister close up. The side pic of the body shows everything else. As you see, they need touching up AND the paint on the body you see is the third paint job and it is cracking. Before I take everything off and just get an artist to replace everything on both sides of the body over a fresh paint job, I wanted to check with all you NCRS experts.
(1) Is there some way to paint the car and still preserve the hand-painted stuff, or should I just have it replaced after painting the car?
(2) Since the car came with the hood and trunk lid stripped, any ideas as to what, if anything, such as numbers, etc. might have been painted on them and where?
(3) Also, I am researching the car, but haven't come up with any race history as yet, so suggestions as to whom I might contact will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob
After much deliberation, I have decided to restore Lil Twister as the Lil Twister drag race car instead of doing it as a restored car for Flight judging, so I guess I'll look for another '57 project in the future to use all my extra '57 parts on!
A pic of the left door is attached showing the painted on letters, car and twister close up. The side pic of the body shows everything else. As you see, they need touching up AND the paint on the body you see is the third paint job and it is cracking. Before I take everything off and just get an artist to replace everything on both sides of the body over a fresh paint job, I wanted to check with all you NCRS experts.
(1) Is there some way to paint the car and still preserve the hand-painted stuff, or should I just have it replaced after painting the car?
(2) Since the car came with the hood and trunk lid stripped, any ideas as to what, if anything, such as numbers, etc. might have been painted on them and where?
(3) Also, I am researching the car, but haven't come up with any race history as yet, so suggestions as to whom I might contact will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob
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