Well, instead of just sitting there and wishing for a new paint job on the old girl, I decided to do something about it... after going round and round about color choices and paint schemes I decided to go back to the original "early Cortez" scheme with the tri-color (dark over light brown with the white belt line and roof.) Now, the roof is NO where near ready for paint quite yet, the rest of the body was just about ready so I went ahead and put some paint on the old girl last Sunday.

I went simple, and easily supplied Rustolium Professional Enamel, in spray cans in Dark Brown, Ivory and Gloss White. All three are available at just about any home improvement warehouse out there, so as the rust returns (as I know it will) I can sand and repaint to match perfectly at any time. Touchup paint is pre-mixed and easy cleanup in the Rattlecans. Done and done.

So it's not entirely done yet, I ran out of white as teh night approached on Sunday night before I flew to New York for the week... so this is where it sits today: (I painted the wheels white after I took these pictures, the Wheel cover is Dark Brown to match the upper body.)


This is going to change a bit... I'll keep the dark brown up by the windshield, then wrap the white around the front and meet the Ivory at the body line. ran out of white... this was repainted Ivory instead... didn't like it white after all when it was mocked up in position.. yea, not digging the bright white on the grill. The 63-68 had a much smaller grill so it worked better.. on the 69 Deluxe it was just too much, went with the Ivory instead for the 2nd coat.
Again, white will wrap around the front too. One more coat should do it over here and the inspiration for the paint scheme: