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3,414 Pound Painting
1936 Dodge Coupe Street Rod Scroll down
My heavest painting to date 3,414 lbs. Shown here before entering the car in the Carl Casper Rod and Custom show in Louisville.
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New 406 cubic inch/6.6 Liter V8 Engine Installed February 2014. This engine build consists of a Dart Machinery (SHP) Special High Performance all Forged internally balanced short block. 10.2:1 compression ratio. Air Flow Research (AFR) 195cc Eliminator Street aluminum cylinder heads. Comp Cams camshaft with roller hydraulic lifters and full roller 1.6 ratio rocker arms. Edelbrock polished Air Gap intake manifold. Holley 750 cfm carb. MSD HEI distributor and 8.5 Superconductor wires. Sanderson tight fit Street Rod headers. TCI Rattler Torsional Absorber. Milodon oil pan and pump. Billet Specialities ribbed with a K&N filter air cleaner. Cal Custom tall ribbed polished aluminum valve covers. This is a strong running solid power plant.
The Dodge shown here fenderless before paint.
I drove the car like this for many years. I named the car 'Tumblin' Dice' in reference to fuzzy dice hanging from the mirror being a popular car culture good luck symbol. It's also a song title reference to a Rolling Stones song from the early '70's that I like.
I always liked the extra long hood line of the Dodge.
The car is powered by a 406 cubic inch 6.6 litre small block chevy engine. Power steering, power brakes. Independent suspension, Mustang front suspension Corvette rear suspension. It has a 4 speed automatic 700r4 transmission with overdrive. 4 wheel disc brakes and Air conditioning.
Paint Scheme Concept Art
I also do illustration on computer, In this case I used Corel Draw. I had my heart set on a flame paint design so I worked out two similar but different flame 'lick' styles. I wanted the car to make a strong statement using strong colors and bold design. I didn't want the design to please everybody, if I did I felt that I hadn't done it right.
Final Computer Design
Rendering
I decided that I preferred the the streched out flames with less of a circle loop in the flame licks. It's difficult to design flames that are different than whats been done during the past 80+ years of Hot Rodding. It seems that every style and color combo has been tried before. My attempt here to be 'different' was to go from Orange in front to Yellow. Traditional would be to go from Yellow or White in the very front blending to Orange to Red at the back of the flames. I wanted 'Red Hot' in the front blending from Orange to the Yellow bouncing off of the dark purple. Another thing that I did in an attempt to change up the design a little was to not have the licks of the flames overlap seperately but to merge. Having open purple tear drop shapes define the inner flame licks.
The work begins.
The car shown here stripped down. Windows, trunk lid, hood, grill shell, head lights, tail lights removed, you get the idea most everything removed from the car. Including the old paint to the metal. Shown here with most of body work completed. The car has a filled roof and cowl, shaved off door handles and trunk handle. The doors and trunk open electrically with remote control key fob.
Preparing for primer paint.
Primer painting parts and pieces.
In primer paint.
The Street Rod Nationals came up before I could complete the paint Job. So I put it together enough to make it legal and went. What's funny is everybody liked it this color this way.
I used 'House of Kolor' brand paint for this project a true custom paint. The primer is a two part epoxy mix and when mixed together it turns this light green. The photo from the rear is a little deceptive it appears white on the trunk and roof but it is actually the same green as the sides appear. It was a very bright sun and I think it was about 100 degrees that day. This is a very durable base for a custom paint job. The tail lights on the car are 1993 Cadillac set in at an angle to give a Cats Eye look. I custom made the lower rear section that the lights set in. I did all of the work on this car myself.
Here comes the purple!
The whole entire car after getting base coats of metallic silver is painted throughly with 'House of Kolor' Pavo Purple. I forgot to mention all of the sanding that went on first. Just remember that there is sanding, sanding and more sanding when doing a paint job like this, so I won't mention it again. After the purple metallic was applied I clear coated the entire car.
After sanding again I applied another clear coat with a brilliant orange mini metal flake added in. The mini flake was only applied to areas around where there would be flames . This was to give it a flame sparks effect You can kind of see some on the right side of the trunk in this picture. Look around where the florsecent light is shining on the trunk lid. I intended to keep the 'Tumblin' Dice' name and put a dice Logo on the right side of the trunk lid. This would be 2 dice with a flame trail streek.
It's getting Hot in Here!
Many of the parts were painted off of the car like the 4 fenders, 2 running boards, grill shell. The grill shell was just painted Ultra Orange over a white base, that's why it's covered in this picture. I needed it to support the hood because I had to paint the flames together in one piece. I used again "House of Kolor" Ultra Orange Pearl, Sunset Orange Pearl, Lime Gold Pearl. over a base coat of white. So I masked off the flames and painted them white first. I feel that a good flame job should match from side to side. Once I had laid out the flames in masking tape on one side of the car, I used a roll of tracing paper and traced that exact pattern. Then I transfered the design to the otherside of the car for a perfect match. The roof was painted the same way as the hood and sides but it was painted in a seperate session. I needed to stand on a step ladder to get at the roof.
Check the symmetry of the paint scheme on the roof.
Top of the hood with one fender.
With both fenders sitting right next to each other you can again check the symmetry in the paint design from side to side. The Left fender already has the Lime Green Pin Stripping applied.
Trunk Logo Tumblin' Dice
I am very happy with how the paint scheme turned out. I believe that the Lime green pinstriping works very well against the purple.
I applied mini metal flake throughout the flames. With brilliant orange in front, to a color shift red to gold flake and finally a straight gold flake in the Lime Gold area. All of the flames were outlined with a Lime Green Pin Stripe. It was all top coated with a number of coats of clear coat paint.
There You Have it!
Interior
I wanted to include some interior photos to help you get a complete picture of the quality of this car. Shown here is a mahagony four spoke Grant steering wheel mounted on a chrome tilt column. The seats are 1969 Mustang bucket seats with matching rolled and pleated door panels. There are 8 classic style Auto Meter gauges which include Speedo, Tach, fuel, oil press, voltage, water temp, trans temp, Air/Fuel ratio. Four of the gauges are mounted in a real wood dash insert that is stained to match the steering wheel.
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Below on the bottom of the page is how the car appeared in the 2011 October Streetscene Magazine's coverage of the Street Rod Nationals. The event takes place in Louisville Kentucky in early August at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center. This is a four day show and you need all four days to take it in. There are usually between 11,000 to 12,000 cars from all over the country and around the world. It was a great thrill to have my car featured in the event magazine.
Again; I’m proud to say that my streetrod has been featured in Streetscene Magazine for the second time. This is the event issue of the magazine that features the Streetrod Nationals.
The NSRA Streetrod Nationals takes place in Louisville Kentucky every year for 4 days in early August. The Nationals is the largest automotive participation event in the world with more than 10,000 registered entrants. There have been as many as 14,000 cars in attendance and to be picked out of more than 10,000 cars by the event photographers twice I think is significant. This car passed the NSRA 23 point safety inspection which is also a good thing. It’s well built and good looking!
The NSRA Streetrod Nationals takes place in Louisville Kentucky every year for 4 days in early August. The Nationals is the largest automotive participation event in the world with more than 10,000 registered entrants. There have been as many as 14,000 cars in attendance and to be picked out of more than 10,000 cars by the event photographers twice I think is significant. This car passed the NSRA 23 point safety inspection which is also a good thing. It’s well built and good looking!
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