Day 2 Paper Thread

[whitetop]

Vintage 1971 Metalflake paint chart showing their candy apple paint lines, Flip Flops, Star Pearls & Eerie Dress. Metalflake is still around but only carries a few original colors. I remember going to indoor car shows and still being able to smell the fresh lacquer. Laquer gave off a really distinctive smell under the lamps of an ISCA indoor show. Just like mimeograph paper you never forget the smell.I can see "Gary the Local Brush" picking out the colors to put on the Baldwin Motion rainbow scroll car...

[whitetop]

1970's Gratiot catalog. Gratiot had 7 stores in the Michigan area plus mail order. Amazing how many companies and speed shops where selling speed equipment back in the day. I grew up in a rural area of around 5000 people and lived within a town of around 50k and there were at least 15-20 places that sold speed equipment back in the day.Everything from speed shops,department stores(JC Penny and Harts), auto parts stores etc.

All of these places are gone for the most part. Really tells you how much is going out the doors of Summit and Jegs every year doesn't it?

[Salvatore]

Thats nice stuff. Love old catalogs and pamphlets.

[C1SS396]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: whitetop</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Vintage 1971 Metalflake paint chart showing their candy apple paint lines, Flip Flops, Star Pearls &amp; Eerie Dress. Metalflake is still around but only carries a few original colors. I remember going to indoor car shows and still being able to smell the fresh lacquer. Laquer gave off a really distinctive smell under the lamps of an ISCA indoor show. Just like mimeograph paper you never forget the smell.I can see &quot;Gary the Local Brush&quot; picking out the colors to put on the Baldwin Motion rainbow scroll car...



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I know that smell all to well my self helping Dad by holding the lace table cloth over the factory stripe on a customers car or unmasking the cars after a full street freak make over ..Still may have a can or 2 in his old paint cabinet ...

[C1SS396]

Here a bunch of National Dragster i am going to put up for sale from 1971 -74 filled with tons of day 2 parts ,cars and other cool stuff ..

[markinnaples]

I think I remember that Vega from a feature in Car Craft.


Does anyone remember a blown 68 Camaro burgundy with ghost flames owned by Gary Fravel from Hot Rod in about 1978? Still one of my favorite cars of all time.

[whitetop]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: markinnaples</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I think I remember that Vega from a feature in Car Craft.


Does anyone remember a blown 68 Camaro burgundy with ghost flames owned by Gary Fravel from Hot Rod in about 1978? Still one of my favorite cars of all time. </div></div>

Look at the rear of the Vega. It has what appears to say Motion Super Vega on the side stripe. In the Car Craft article I swear it says Motion Super Vega but I called Marshall and he said it never was but I thought he said in our conversation said he did some freelance work for Joel or was a Motion dealer?? But again in the CC article you can see Motion Super Vega clearly in the side stripe. Who sold a new street car back then for 12K other than Joel??It also has a hone overdrive and Joel built another Vega with that exact same hoodscoop and the exact same paint treatment over the scoop. ????????? mystery. Maybe Marshall built a clone back in the day or maybe it's a real Motion Vega and he is trying to find the car first before someone else does and is downplaying it's heritage. Strange.

Gary Fravel still has the 68 Camaro and it exactly as in the article. I spoke with him 4 years back. It has never been changed or updated. Also one of my favorite cars. He lives right outside of Columbus and every year when I go to Goodguys I hope he brings it out but every year it's [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/frown.gif[/img]

Back in 1978 he drove it to a Zanesville Ohio car show and people just went nuts. People were literally running across the fairgrounds to see it drive in and park. Blowers were fairly new then. I remember him backing up and there was at least 50 people surrounding the car.

No one does that today. There are so many nice cars today people are really descentized and the cars built today do not receive the same awe factor today as back then. I never see people run across the show grounds as they did back then to view an arriving car...and I literally mean run.

[markinnaples]

whitetop, awesome, thanks for the update. lol, i can't believe i remembered his name but that car is seared into the memory of a 12 yo boy in 1978.

i have the mag with the article on his car that i have got to scan and post here. wow, thanks again.

did that guy Marshall Gardner either have that Vega or another that was all custom painted on the sides featured in CC as well? I seem to recall that as well.

[whitetop]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: markinnaples</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

did that guy Marshall Gardner either have that Vega or another that was all custom painted on the sides featured in CC as well? I seem to recall that as well. </div></div>

Marshall told me the Vega with all the custom murals and pschedhelic paint work is the same car as above-just updated a few years later. He put Cragars on it as well.

[markinnaples]

funny how i can't remember what my wife just said 20 minutes ago, yet i can remember the name and paint on a car i read about 33 years ago, lol.

thanks again