1951 F16

[jaybee]

Hmmm, a color that doesn't look good in the sun or one that doesn't look good when it's not in the sun...the search continues?

[chimp koose]

I like washington blue ...when its in the sun , in the shade it gets way too dark .

[idrivejunk]

I'd have to drip a dab of green in a puddle of the red and stir just in case something cool were to emerge. I agree that the wine red hue could be very good and I get the bit about shimmery ones being mud in the shade. Making glossy paint colors in a rendering is still kind of unexplored territory to me. Few attempts have been made due to the time involved. Its something I'd like to improve on.

[kb426]

O&S made a tiny bit of progress today. I removed the bed cover and welded the brace I fabbed up to it. Had I chose this option to begin with, all these parts would be in primer and I would be crossing something off the list. LOL. So much for hindsight again. I took the maroon panel out and tried to take a few more pics of it. The camera I'm using doesn't have enough resolution to show everything that's in the color but my thought is that it's not as dark as it needs to be to compliment the shape of the truck.

[idrivejunk]

When you first showed that color, it reminded me of a stock Ford color but at the time I could not recall what vehicle. On the way home suddenly aloud I said "Probe!". Maybe also Escort.

I like the out-of-the-ordinary color wheel positioning of that hue. Mass tone toes the violet line but is red. It appears to use gold pearl which pushes the brighter face tone back toward red from violet. Thats the secret to eye grabbing pearls... the amount of color shift allowed by color coated translucent six sided flakes. In low light and / or at oblique angles, a sort of hazy tone can result. So vivid, dramatic effect formulas are definitely sun worshippers.

So, is there a next darker choice? Cocktailing what you have with black might darken it enough without hurting the effect too bad.

Have you by chance flipped through 60s GM color chips? They seem to have been semi adventurous exploring that color family and in modern pigments some of those might be very sharp while having an older look from the all-silver opaque aluminum 4 sided flake metallic effect. And change less going from sunlight to open shade than something with mica.

That ended up being a thought dump, Bill.   Your pic efforts are kindling for the image furnace. We might get some rain this weekend.

The bed cover is looking like a sturdy unit.

[jaybee]

With the new pic it seems to me that has to be close to a good color. Maybe just a shade more toward maroon as it could turn out to be a hair too bright on such a large vehicle. Might work, though it's hard to tell from a pic on a computer screen.

[idrivejunk]

I tried rubbing up one fender, took half a day.

[kb426]

Wow! You did good. Thank you!

[idrivejunk]

No sweat. I didn't know if I had it in me to really make shiny. Now I do.

[kb426]

The truck got it's 1st road trip today, albeit a short one. 60 miles round trip. The distance from the seat to the throttle pedal isn't going to work for me. I'm not sure where I will make changes from here. The independent suspension on both ends makes a Cadillac out of a hot rod. The only time you know what's there is if you are pressing it around a curve or corner. It needs more bottom end power for me to be happy. Using an aftermarket efi and a double plane intake manifold lets the engine give up some of the torque that a factory efi engine has. No thought's on a solution to that. There is the obvious cost but the parts shortages have changed the option list substantially from 5 years ago.

[kb426]

In attempt to make a color decision closer, I ordered 2 paint chip charts from Summit, who sells the lower cost paint that I have been using. The charts were $8.48 and the shipping was $11.99. When the sun comes back out, I'll take them outside and see what's different from the older charts I've been using. Obviously, having accurate info is important.

[kb426]

I spent a couple of hours looking at colors on the charts and pics on the internet yesterday. I crossed a few more off the list. I did run across someone who had the light blue that Matt did on one of my pics. He told the percentage that he cut the blue with pure white so if I decide to do that, I have a good starting point. It warmed up today so I ran the truck in and started doing small stuff. I removed the throttle pedal and cut 3" off from where the foot pad was. I'm going to drive it around for a while and see if that was enough to solve that problem. If that is acceptable, I will roll a sheet metal pad for the foot and either make a bolt on mount or tack weld it to the throttle arm. I have been dissatisfied with the IAC on cold starts. I worked in the software for the efi and made some changes. In the morning, I will see if I'm successful. Some of the settings will be done by experimenting. There's not a gold standard that I found for a reference because of so many variables in an engine. I started writing down what I did so I have a reference to return to if something is moving in the wrong direction. The good news is that you use the hand held tuner and the small scribe and it takes a few minutes to make changes. The accessibility of change compared to any factory system I have been involved with is really good.

[kb426]

I started working on some nerf bars for the front. I used 1.5" round tubing. I bent some parts and I'm not real happy with it. The dies I have are 6.5" radius. That's real good for dragster roll cages but too large for what I wanted. So I'm back to thinking. The changes to the IAC made no difference so I'm doing research to see what the possible reasons for that are.

[kb426]

O&S got a tiny bit accomplished today. It was too cold in the morning for me so I waited until afternoon to get started. I removed the bed cover and removed the hinge. The front of the cover was higher than the bed side by around 3/8". After I put the cloth on, I really didn't like the way it looked. I ordered a new hinge with a much wider flange. This will allow me to lower the front where it's parallel with the bed side. I did a quick sand job on the exposed areas of the cover frame with hopes that the weather will stay decent long enough for me to get those areas painted before I reinstall the cover.

[idrivejunk]

Your IAC just needs a P O N T added first.