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Song title possibilities:
The Big Hurt by Miss Toni Fisher
Heartache by The Marcells
both circa about 1962...
Da Do Run Run by the Crystals 1963

Just some thoughts. You could use those with any colors you like.

Originally Posted by 1gary

Dave,
57's had a model that was black and white.It was the only one built that was fuel injected.It was known as "The Black Widow".Yeah,not a gasser per say,but was one of the factory models that had a rep.

It was built specifically for NASCAR. Here's an example....

ppg black dp90. dp40 gray green . dp60 i think was red . dp 48 white ? gray 50. i shot many gallons of the black for die cast valve covers for M&A castings in the shops we use the dp 40 all the time other colors not so much Acme/ Sw had a black primer

I really, really, really, really like the Black Widow motif, but if not, then here is another offering......

Install the 150 side chrome, paint it pearlescent white and call it "Nights in White Satin"
http://www.nutsie.com/song/Nights%20...bum_id=2815717

Okay... I had to search for some hits of the era! :-)

Locomotion
Hanky Panky
Fun Fun Fun
Wooley Bully
Good Vibrations
Jumpin Jack Flash
Heartbreaker
Thunder Road
Maybelline
Gone Gone Gone
Classical Gas
Teen Angel
LaBamba



I'm sure there are a hundred more! :-)

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Possible to come up with a color and a name that fit the era and the car?????

I was only about ten years old, but I will never forget the '57 Chevy BelAire that the old retired doctor in our tiny SW Missouri town special ordered - Matador Red over Coronado Yellow That car was so ugly it's burned into my memory cells forever Cannot believe the dealer let him order it, and more cannot believe the factory actually painted it. Sick, sick, sick color combo....

Sorry, Dave, but the discussion about '57 colors brought that rushing back....

Originally Posted by techinspector1

I really, really, really, really like the Black Widow motif, but if not, then here is another offering......

Install the 150 side chrome, paint it pearlescent white and call it "Nights in White Satin"
http://www.nutsie.com/song/Nights%20...bum_id=2815717

Don't think I can do the chrome, but the two tone split is sure nice!!!! Probably have to be aggressive kind of colors for a gasser????

Two thoughts on the color thing.

First, it might be fun to mess with the Tri-Five resto guys heads. Do the car up in Black Widow livery, right down to the 150 side trim, cross flags and Fuel Injection trim pieces. Imagine the fun you can have when they get that ghastly look on their face and say something like ".....you didn't really cut up a real Black Widow to make a gasser didja?" Just grin..............

For a single color, gasser appropriate, I'd go Yellow. To my eye it's a great color for a gasser, and not all that common like red, blue, black,......
The name possibilities are numerous. Just a few for example: Yellow Fever, Lemonade, or Lemon Aid, Lemon Peel (like in peel out), and on and on. If you go with the Lemon theme you could airbrush simulated dimples on the roof to look like a lemon peel (or leave it out in a really good hail storm ).

no if your going yellow you could call it mellow yellow and that would fit in with the time frame of the song mellow yellow by donovan ???

Originally Posted by techinspector1

It was built specifically for NASCAR. Here's an example....

That 57 is just plain cool.



trees in the background ..... not so much.....

One of the local legends around here (and it is tucked away in a barn, still as it was raced back in the day) is a tri5 called 'Hacksaw'

When I was a kid I found a 55 gasser called Tasmanian Devil stored away in a corn crib. Had a Taz cartoon painted on the front fenders behind the wheels, Tasmanian Devil lettered down the sides. That was a cool thing to stumble upon. The crib was one of only a couple buildings left on an old abandoned farm site. A few months later I went back again and it was gone.

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Two thoughts on the color thing.

First, it might be fun to mess with the Tri-Five resto guys heads. Do the car up in Black Widow livery, right down to the 150 side trim, cross flags and Fuel Injection trim pieces. Imagine the fun you can have when they get that ghastly look on their face and say something like ".....you didn't really cut up a real Black Widow to make a gasser didja?" Just grin..............

For a single color, gasser appropriate, I'd go Yellow. To my eye it's a great color for a gasser, and not all that common like red, blue, black,......
The name possibilities are numerous. Just a few for example: Yellow Fever, Lemonade, or Lemon Aid, Lemon Peel (like in peel out), and on and on. If you go with the Lemon theme you could airbrush simulated dimples on the roof to look like a lemon peel (or leave it out in a really good hail storm ).

Now, that would be fun to mess with the purists a bit! But I would never do that, just not that kind of guy!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

no if your going yellow you could call it mellow yellow and that would fit in with the time frame of the song mellow yellow by donovan ???

Now there's one heck of an idea!!! one of my favorite old songs anyway!!!

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