Oh the agony of it all!!!!!!! So I’m really, really ready to shoot the back bars for the ‘50 grill, that is the elusive Waldorf White. Since it was the standard color for the back bars, this shade of white had to be compatible with the entire palette of colors offered for the AD, which meant that it had to be a fairly neutral tint. Plain old refrigerator white would fill the bill, but it contrasts to much with all the colors and just looks to stark.
The purpose of the back is to hide the radiator yet still let all the air it needs thru and to accent the body color on the grill bars. They could have used black or they could have simply continued the body color but that would have looked like one large painted panel in the front and would not have defined the lines of the grill bars.
As I mentioned earlier, the photo of Woody’s green grill with the off white back bars look’s great. He used a Valspar gloss white tractor paint and tinted it with just a touch of yellow creating a bright cream that lights up the back of the grill and offers a pleasing contrast to the body color.
My body color is Mariner blue and I didn’t think that anything with yellow in it would work good with it. So I made up a bunch of off white sample chips, using black, red, green, blue and finally yellow. And I think the cream created with the touch of yellow tint takes home the prize. When I lay it next to the darker reds, blues, black and even with the lighter colors it just seems to fit.
It’s very difficult to display color tints thru computer graphics but this might give one an idea of what I’m talking about. The tints are over loaded just so I could see how they would compare to each other, In the real application they would be much more subtle than they appear:
http://www.pbase.com/dennygraham/image/138080990/large I’ve also put a narrow strip to see how it would work as the belt strip in Medium Cream.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
