Posted by ScottyHOMEy on October 31, 2007 at 14:23:45 from (71.241.212.142):
In Reply to: Re: Any comments? posted by RustyFarmall on October 31, 2007 at 13:18:25:
We're gonna hafta agree to disagree on the paint thing, Rusty.
If I buy into, I'd have to go on to say that there hasn't been a true restoration of anything older than twenty-five years done in the last ten (numbers approximated). Those old paint bases and the tints that go into their formulation haven't been available for a long time. I could not, for example, go out and find the same turquoise and off-white paints that Pawpaw's '56 Olds was wearing when it left Detroit. I wouldn't call its restoration, otherwise historically accurate, and certainly not a customization.
Likewise, IH2150 is, to my eye, a lovely color to behold, but it's more orange than the IH50 originally applied to the letter series, and is no longer available thorugh CaseIH or CaseNewHolland. So one does one's best to replicate the color of IH50 and apply it in a thickness representative of what the old darling was wearing when it left Chicago. If it happens to be acrylic instead of alkyd?
Customization? My mind goes immediately to chrome stacks, locking chrome lug nuts, dingleballs on the light bars, and leopard-skin prints for the seat covers.
Not trying to pick a fight. From what I've read, I know we agree on a lot of other things. If we differ on this point, then we do. But using modern paints, in my book, does not rise to the level of customization, and does not take away from the quality of a restoration.
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