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| | | | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 | I saw a very nice 1950 Fleetmaster this weekend with a two tone cream/seafoam green paint job. Was there a similar green available for the AD trucks (just the green, not two tone)? I really liked it and I am considering using it. It was a very light and bright color (almost a pale mint) and would hide dents and dings well without being too plain. I hate white. I wanted to go with yellow but there is a well known business in town that has a truck just like mine that is a very nice yellow and I don't want to look like a copycat or give free advertising. Omaha Orange is just too loud for my taste (that's what I have now and it looks terrible know that it is old), and I love red but I already have one red car. Blue and Black and Maroon are too dark and gray is too gray. (I live in a gray area anyway, rainy Oregon)
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A lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 587 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 587 | Josiah
I was at a swap meet and found some color chips labeled "Chevrolet Commericial Colors 1947-1950". The greens listed and shown on this are: seacrest green, channel green, fathom green, and (of course) forester green. I can scan and email them to you if you wish.
Brian | | | | | Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 35 Member | | Member Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 35 | 4onthefloor, is your name really Josiah Bartlett or are you just stealing the quote from the West Wing TV show? I've seen lots of people refer/respond to you as Josiah. Just thought I'd point it out/ask... | | | | | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 | Brian,
A scan would be fantistic. Thanks!
Apache,
Yes, my name really is Josiah Bartlett. I am a decendant of the Josiah Bartlett from New Hampshire that signed the Declaration of Independance. I found it interesting that they used my name as the name of the President on that show, although they seem to call him 'Jed' a lot and I have never heard my name be shortend to Jed and wouldn't respond if I heard it.
What's funny is that growing up in the woods of Washington my neighbor was a direct decendant of John Standish of Mayflower fame and they had the Alden family Bible that listed the entire family tree in front. The records are a little less formal in my family, but my father has a pre-1776 New Hampshire property deed that Josiah Bartlett signed while he was Justice of the Peace under the rule of the British Crown. It is pretty neat- it lists the location of the property as 'from the oak stump to the creek to the stone fence...' and it's hand written. We don't own the property though.
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A lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 100 Member | | Member Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 100 | Hi Josiah,
That's great! Wasn't it Miles Standish and John Alden? My wife took a college course in Oakland, CA, where there was a Miles Standish XI (the eleventh) in the class.
Tom Anderson
Never start vast projects with half vast ideas.
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 | Yes, that's what I meant. My neighbor's name was John and his son's name was Miles.
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A lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 99 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 99 | I recently obtained chips from DuPont for 53, 55(both series) 57, 58, 59. Could not find your Sea Foam Green. I might have missed because all are listed in about 24+ different files. For 53 Chevy they listed Seacrest Green and Ocean Green. These look like what you described.
Can e-mail if you still need. | | |
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