...Thanks ChevyGirl. The truck took me 9 years to build. I'm not one for copying others so try do my own thing. The doors are opened from the outside by remote control only. From inside I put a switch on the console to open them. The windows, same thing , remote from outside and a console switch from the inside. It's like same idea that vehicles today have with power locks...open from a distance away, except I got strong solenoids tripping the door latch. Windows are homemade combo of 76 grand Marquis rear door motors/mech mated with the original 49 mechanical mech run by relays. Ahhh the color. Everyone thought I was nuts crazy in the head for picking this color. In 2004 a semi pulled into my yard to haul grain for me. It was a 2002 White Freightliner. I was abit stunned that this was a highway hauler. I am pretty good at seeing things what they will look like far ahead of time. This color on my 49 would be different and no one else has around that I ever seen. Green glass, chrome, cragars ahhh yes I think it will suit the body style. Ends up it is a special order color that PPG canada could not even mix , called Light Amethyst Pearl Metallic. The pictures don't do it justice but it is unique. I painted some interior parts and other brackets etc, but the body my friend did over a 3 year period, yes painted in pieces over 3 years as I could afford and prepare it. He did not want to spray this color. I could only get this color from Dupont in Imron, very expensive stuff as it is a industrial paint for trains trucks etc. When they opened the can one guy almost threw up and they said I was making a mistake as it is sick. Well they did not see what I saw so he sprayed it. I did all the wet sanding and polishing, many hours as this stuff is like cement to work with. Anyways my first Car Show I took it to was Saskatoon Draggins 2014. From the moment I started setting it up people just kept coming up, especially women and asking what color is that ? People just loved it as it was so different and just suits the truck. It won first in Custom Truck and top honor as Best Of Show out of over 200 entries. No one laughs at the color now, even the painter admits that it looks good.
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