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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Jan 21, 2009 11:38 am)
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Replying to: fezo (Jan 21, 2009 1:16 pm) Question on the paint. In 75 were they still using enamels or had already they gone to thin colors with clearcoat on top? Now let's make the question hard for Andre - Which one of your current children would have to move outside to make room in the garage for this one?
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Replying to: lokki (Jan 21, 2009 1:45 pm) Which one of your current children would have to move outside to make room in the garage for this one? Well in theory, I could pull this off without having to make any of the cars give up a garage space. The DeSoto is still over at my grandmother's house. Right now the LeMans and 5th Ave are in the garage. There's an empty spot that the Catalina gets when it comes back from the mechanic...and that has been "any day now" for several weeks! What would normally be the 4th spot is currently being used for storage. Boxes, chairs, a desk, some old tv's, parts of a weight bench, and a bunch of other stuff that needs going through. But once the DeSoto comes over from my grandmother's, I guess the 5th Ave would have to give up its spot in the garage, if I was to take on that Buick. As for paint, they were still using enamels at that time. I think the first car to use a clearcoat paintjob, on the domestic front at least, was the 1977 Lincoln Versailles. IIRC, the next year they started offering it on other Lincolns, but I think it was an extra-cost option. I always thought that baby blue was the perfect 1975 LeSabre color. I've seen other 1975 GM cars in that color, and it just doesn't suit them as well. I saw an Electra that color, and it didn't seem right, but the Electra was more upscale, and IMO needed to be metallic. I've also seen a '75 LeMans in that color, and it did nothing for me. Ditto a '75 Delta 88 convertible and '75 Caprice. All cars that I like, but that blue just seems so perfect on the LeSabre!
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jan 21, 2009 11:22 am) reminds me a bit of of this
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Replying to: berri (Jan 21, 2009 4:22 pm)
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Replying to: explorerx4 (Jan 21, 2009 4:17 pm) 
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Replying to: boomchek (Jan 21, 2009 4:43 pm) 
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Replying to: explorerx4 (Jan 21, 2009 4:52 pm) LOL, I know what you're suggesting. Go to hertz and rent a Shelby GT-H for me and a Charger for the wife, and see how they fly? Wouldn't that be fun?
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