Info needed: correct colours for WWII Aust vehicles

[Tony Wheeler]

Originally Posted by Jim Burrill

A neighbor came by all upset that my paint was speckling his car....I spent a good hour with a wooden popsickle stick rubbing out the dots.

You've just reminded me of a similar experience Jim, when I sprayed my first car at the age of 17, a Wolseley 1500. I sprayed it outdoors in British Racing Green, and my mother's pale green Austin 1800 was parked in the driveway barely 10 metres away. A couple of weeks later my father was washing it when he suddenly noticed millions of BRG dots all over one side! It was such an even coat you couldn't see it until you got real close. He was absolutely ropable, especially when we discovered it couldn't be removed with turps after so long. In the end it had to be rubbed off with a cloth and car polish, which took me the best part of a day's hard labour!

I'm glad you raised it Jim as I'll need to be careful if it can travel 50 metres and still stick to things. My neighbour often parks his brand new 4WD in the driveway, and it's white!

[Private_collector]

If you have any connections in the auto repair industry, or know someone who may, you might be lucky enough to be able to use someones spray booth on a Saturday. I dont know what the going price currently is but it used to be roughly 1 carton of beer. Allowing for inflation in last quarter of a century, and adjusting for international exchange rates & wind direction..........maybe somewhere nearer......say....a bottle of scotch. Glenfiddich, of course

Start befriending your local panel shop foreman, Tony! Then, problem solvered!!

[Tony Wheeler]

Actually I'm not too badly placed here Tony, I'm on an acre block, but I'll still need to be aware of any breeze direction, as the shed will be on the fence line adjacent to my neighbour's driveway. I can always ask him to move his car when I spraypaint, and I'm pretty sure he won't need to be asked twice!