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Location: South Central PA |
If you haven't seen it.
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20131004/CARNEWS01/131009908?utm_so... |
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Location: Kättilstorp Sweden | Great, thanks for the link.
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Location: The Mile High City | hmmm. makes me wonder if order number 642 is still around - very doubtful, but if I owned a blue 1955 Plymouth sedan with a white top, I sure would check it out! |
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Location: NY & VT | That was fun! The '55s and 56s were much better put together than the years that followed, '57 was notoriously bad due to the rush to get them into production. |
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Location: Vancouver, Washington | Ah, you beat me to the posting...very nice |
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Location: Colo Spgs | Bill
WoW Oh WoW
I just spent the last 30 plus minutes looking and re-looking at sections.
Rodger & Gabby
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Location: Brooklyn NY | That was kool. I like the water fountain running in the pit so the workers have fewer excuses to leave. |
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Location: Magra, Sweden | Really cool to see 
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | Really cool video. I also like all the detail in it. Notice the worker making the chalk marks on the frame? Really makes you appreciate all the work that went into making our cars. Imagine all the retooling that needed to happen each new model year? How many years in advance do you think the new model was planned out? Big gamble if the buying public did not like what was made....
Edited by 56RoyalLancer 2013-10-08 4:23 PM
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Account deactivated by owner's request
Location: On this barrel | That's an interesting sign ...
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Location: PL / EU | cool! I want '55 |
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Location: Blythewood, SC | Worth the watch for sure. |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil!
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Location: bishop, ca | Great video.
I wish they would have shown the "Bonderizing" rust-inhibiting body-dip tank.
Also wish that they'd shown the undercoating protocols.
None of the cars shown received undercoating (on their under-sides) on them.
It appears that the rear axles were installed in the (un-)finish that they received when they were assembled, and were not,
necessarily, painted in the frame-black alkyd enamel.
Also, in the early images of the front steering and suspension components, the parts are assembled in their as-built finish,
and not in chassis-black finish.
In later scenes, the front suspension components appear to be finished in 'black'.
The interiors' and the trunks' appearance was 100% over-spray, of red-primer, and body color(s), which were applied
over the underlying "Bonderizing"-gray, and the mastic sound deadener (undercoating), which were applied over the
bodies' basic 'white' metal construction.
The under-side of the trunks appears to be 100% Bonderizing-gray, with no asphaltic sound deadening panels
being installed between the two sections of the trunk assemblies.
Edited by d500neil 2013-10-09 5:17 PM
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Wishes on wheels.
