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...twin Ford flathead V8s...

Str8 up pimpin', yo!

Sorry to go all Matlocky and ruin the thread. It's just that I love trying to figure these things out.

The 1960 Ford Falcon: 181.2" long 70.1" wide 109.5" wheelbase 23 cu ft trunk The 2012 Buick Regal: 190.2" long 73.1" wide 107.8" wheelbase 14.2 cu ft trunk without eek-Assist? LaCrosse with eek-Assist has a truly pathetic 10.8 cu ft trunk, and 12.8 with normal powertrain (can that be right?)

My next question then is... if it had the base interior treatment, how come it has chrome exterior instead of white? Or could the deluxe interior and chrome exterior be ordered independently? Apples to oranges, I know, but I am assuming a Ford Custom Cab came with chrome exterior/deluxe interior as a package...

Yup, and at your link to the Old Car Brochure, on a subsequent page about the cabs, it states that all interior surfaces were primed and then painted, there would have been no exposed primed surfaces on a 1957 GMC truck cab interior before final assembly.

...here's a nice rendering of the Harmony Gray/Panama Cream standard cab interior.

Looking at renderings in the '57 brochure, it shows a green exterior pickup cab with interior painted to match except for attached trim, but it also shows a medium-duty cab-over with red exterior and gray painted interior.

That is what I am thinking as well, Moltie. The exposed area of the door appears unmolested factory color, the red and white are far too sloppily applied to be original, imo. I do see red at the firewall area, but that appears sloppy as well.

Too glossy. One can also see the same color on the A-pillar in the same shot, and in the shot showing the right side step, amidst areas of the red flaking off. Also, look at the sloppy application of red on the steering column, at the shift indicator area. To me, the red seems sloppily applied throughout. In the shot showing the interior looking at the back glass, one can see gray at the very edge of the sheetmetal along the top of the glass. I am wondering how interior color was applied on these trucks in 1957. Was red an interior color option? If so, how much of the interior would have been red? It seems like a rather base model truck (v. a Suburban) with favorable powertrain options, although the chrome v. white exterior trim might prove me wrong.

Well I am looking at the shot showing the door at the opposite side, untrimmed, showing hardware with no overspray, and that area appears to be Harmony Gray. The same gray color shows in other small areas of the interior where other subsequent colors are flaked off.

Don't need Cialas (sp?), or Propecia.

I'm trying to figure out the original color on Balthy's thread-opener truck. I keep coming back to battleship gray, based on the door guts, and some other areas where various colors have been worn off, etc. EDIT: Seems like "Harmony Gray", according to a paint chart from 1957.

Here's a 1947 Vauxhall 10, emerging from hibernation... speaking of "10", it seems almost a decade behind American GM vehicles, style-wise.

Here's a '53 Wyvern, although I can't understand a damn thing they're saying........

Well I tried to post this up in the appropriate section, "British Marques", but the board says I cannot start a new topic there (?) I guess I'm on restriction. But here's a familiar little car... it resembles a shrunken early 50's Chevrolet, the Vauxhall Velox!

I know wut you were thinking... "why did ocn put this thread in the WRONG section? Don't he know nothin'?" Yet here it is in all its sexy glory....... Sorry about the cut off picture. The Stingray is so big, I couldn't get it all in the frame without losing detail.

Three pedals and a glorious stick shift... LOVE!!

Dash reminds me of BMW here....

Looks athletic and sporty in these shots. I like it. The more I look at it, the more I see "2014 Impala" in the front end, sort of... ...Nice, imo