Thread: Your Favorite Paint Jobs.

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Consider this a "study" of what makes a lasting impression in a paint scheme.

DESCRIBE THE THREE MOST BADASS PAINT SCHEMES YOU'VE SEEN IN YOUR LIFE! (If you have a picture, post it)

Okay. Here's my first choice. I like schemes you might describe as "beautiful", things that are different.

The Keeling & Clayton race cars. When the first one came out in '71, the press immediately titled it "The World's Most Beautiful Dragster"! It had good contrast, flow, visibility, and use of color for effect. The gold leaf lettering was an intergral part of the design, and looked like jewelry on these cars.

"String art" was popular at the time, and the painter, George Cerny Jr. applied the concept beautifully, to this car, and at least the next two K&C cars.

These were the best pics I could find on short notice. As you can see, the die cast model industry is still selling copies, after 30 years! There was also a Pinto, and maybe a Mustang Funny.

One of the most immaculate series of funny cars to grace the quarter mile was run by the California based team of John Keeling and Jerry Clayton. Team was known for their "California Charger" T/F car that won the inaugural Supernationals in 70 and held the NHRA et record for a period... first flopper, a 392 powered Pinto, debuted at Lions 17th Anniversary Race in 71 with Rick Ramsey (also the teams T/F shoe) driving... later gave way to ex-John Hoven flopper driver Tom Ferraro. By 74 team was concentrating strictly on their funny car effort and campaigning the pictured Mustang with ex-Snow shoe Jake Johnston at the wheel. Billy Meyer did a short stint at the helm in 75 as did Pat Foster and Neil Leffler. Car was run through 77 when team debuted a Leffler driven "California Charger" Trans-Am. That car closed out the K&C legacy, ended up competing in European Pro comp wars out of Norway in the early 80s.

Thanks for posting the other cars in this series. I thought it was suprising I would remember, AND CHOOSE AS AN ALLTIME FAVORITE, the paint schemes on these, as they were not done in eyebal burning" colors, or outlandish patterns, BUT WERE VERY WELL EXECUTED, AND HAD THAT REALLY COOL "STRINGART". :-)~

For a distinctly different style, here's another of my own favorites. I guess I'm picking race cars, because street cars are usually more conservative in design......and I did ask for "badass". :-)

Mike Sullivan's Chicago based altered had an American flag theme, that was done in the "psychedelic Seventies". I always loved the fluid look it had, and with a white base, visibility was great. That grill is painted on!

For me it has to be Flames...of any kind.
The ones I have on my Vette were at the time my favorite but any flames will do.
One thing I do not like is when airbrush work is done and the lines are not crisp so it has a blurred effect on the picture
I will find more:
http://www.iceburgh66.com/sitebuilde...g.w560h364.jpg

Me too on flames. One that comes to mind is that trend setting flamed '40 Ford sedan (black car with flames starting in white and changing as they went back) I forget the owners name now, but it is generally held up as an example of one of the first flame jobs. (maybe Cunningham??)

Second car is a '50 Ford shoebox from the same era. It was a solid blue Ford, and what made the flames different was that they began on the front end, like most flame jobs, but then there were flames all along the rockerpanels, clear to the rear of the car. They were sort of like ocean waves, and were pretty much in a straight line, only coming as high as mid door. These broke up the slab-sidedness of the shoebox, and gave it a really different look.

Those two stuck with me the most.


Don

Originally Posted by iceburgh

For me it has to be Flames...of any kind.
The ones I have on my Vette were at the time my favorite but any flames will do.
One thing I do not like is when airbrush work is done and the lines are not crisp so it has a blurred effect on the picture
I will find more:
http://www.iceburgh66.com/sitebuilde...g.w560h364.jpg

That is a nice job. :-)

Here's my third choice, more current, and a real piece of art. This is Elijah Morton's IHRA Pro Stock. "Very artsy", and incredibly stunning!.

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

One that comes to mind is that trend setting flamed '40 Ford sedan (black car with flames starting in white and changing as they went back) I forget the owners name now, but it is generally held up as an example of one of the first flame jobs. (maybe Cunningham??)

You mean the Bob McCoy sedan? Here's a drawing he's done of his former car followed by a picture taken in recent years of a car that claims to be the same one.

i love the beebe & mulligan candy stripes

Those were highly recognizeable. I always figured the green was chosen to go with their nickname.........."The Fighting Irish".

Originally Posted by HOTRODPAINT

Here's my third choice, more current, and a real piece of art. This is Elijah Morton's IHRA Pro Stock. "Very artsy", and incredibly stunning!.

Is this paint or a wrap?

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...O/DSC_0787.jpg

Originally Posted by iceburgh

Is this paint or a wrap?

Painted by Mark Brown, at Illusions Custom Paint, in Tennessee. Here's a link.

http://www.koolpaint.com/portfolio.html