Big John
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I looked around at the different paints to paint my horn and found a reference on another forum to using Testor model paint. After seeing $30 for a 1/2 pint and $20 for a spray can of "restoration" paint, $4 for a can at my local hobby shop sounded pretty good. I tried it today and I gotta say the color looks right to me, although it looks a little blue in the pics.
I sandblasted and wirewheeled the old paint off first, sprayed some duplicolor primer ('cause I had some) and some duplicolor white (again had some) as an undercoat to make the purple a little brighter. Testors #1234 purple in the spray can applied lightly. One thing about the Testor paint I noticed was it went on wetter and thinner then the usual rattle can paint I'm used to. This explains all those crappy looking model cars back when I was a kid.
I gotta tell you about the horn too. The horn itself is a repop and the bracket is a real one. Back in the eighties, you could get a horn over the counter at the local dealer, but the bracket was the shorter bracket for the newer cars. The original bracket for mine was broken and the horn missing, so I used the new horn. A friend painted it with something he mixed up that was pretty close and it was that way for a while.
So.. I was at a car show in Ottawa, Ontario of all places and found an old horn with the right bracket. The horn looked like it had seen better days, but the bracket was good. I held it up and asked how much.. the guy said in French "Avec beep-beep" and I said "American $$". I got him down to $5 if I remember right.
Ever since then, when ever I see one of these horns, I think of the grinning French-Canadian and "Avec beep-beep"
I sandblasted and wirewheeled the old paint off first, sprayed some duplicolor primer ('cause I had some) and some duplicolor white (again had some) as an undercoat to make the purple a little brighter. Testors #1234 purple in the spray can applied lightly. One thing about the Testor paint I noticed was it went on wetter and thinner then the usual rattle can paint I'm used to. This explains all those crappy looking model cars back when I was a kid.
I gotta tell you about the horn too. The horn itself is a repop and the bracket is a real one. Back in the eighties, you could get a horn over the counter at the local dealer, but the bracket was the shorter bracket for the newer cars. The original bracket for mine was broken and the horn missing, so I used the new horn. A friend painted it with something he mixed up that was pretty close and it was that way for a while.
So.. I was at a car show in Ottawa, Ontario of all places and found an old horn with the right bracket. The horn looked like it had seen better days, but the bracket was good. I held it up and asked how much.. the guy said in French "Avec beep-beep" and I said "American $$". I got him down to $5 if I remember right.
Ever since then, when ever I see one of these horns, I think of the grinning French-Canadian and "Avec beep-beep"
No wonder it had dust on it! The ball sounded good when shaking it so we thought the paint is good. If it's not, let me know and I'll get a newer can to you.
