Did Bill Thomas build Camaros outside NICKEY??

[beater68427]

I remembered to take a picture of that frame this weekend

[Xplantdad]

Same dealer. I used to live a few blocks from Vern Trider [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

[beater68427]

The fun part putting it back together and detailing, nice to see the front end going back on.

[resto4u]

Has it been documented that nickey/thomas engine transplants received yellow painted engines? If so, what is the color name or paint code. Roger

[beater68427]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: resto4u</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Has it been documented that nickey/thomas engine transplants received yellow painted engines? If so, what is the color name or paint code. Roger </div></div>

In looking at pictures Bill Thomas painted some of his engines Yellow in various cars, I just decided to on this car when I got it the engine was black but had been Black Yellow and Orange on the block the heads were bare aluminum I still have those heads but they need work. The rest I threw away it was junk.

[olredalert]

----Jeff,,,,Some racers (Bob Hamilton was one) painted their engines yellow as they could see oil leaks more easily. Im sure that's the reason Bill T did at least some of his engines that way....Bill S

[JoeC]

not sure why Thomas used yellow but he was old school and
in 1957 Chevy painted some 283 truck engines yellow

for some reason in 1950's Chevy used many engine colors - blue red yellow gray green orange black even a Chartreuse (lime green)

other years used different colors also

http://www.cs.siena.edu/~lederman/tr...VCCAcolor.html

[beater68427]

I wanted to duplicate the factory undercoating it took a while but found a NOS gallon of some tar type undercoating made by evercoat probably from the 80's I cant stand the newer spray on stuff it just looks wrong to me and seems mushy, I tried on some spray cards to apply it different ways the one that looked the best was just a 1 inch brush and dabbing it on over spraying it, this is one coat down I think I will do two

[leach]

Yes engines were painted yellow to detect oil leaks that is why Nickey also painted them yellow. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img]

[beater68427]

Does anyone have a good picture of the factory horn mounting on a standard 68, I have lost a few pictures over the years and I cant seem to find a good picture on line.