Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
One of my friends stopped over today and brought me a couple of emblems he wanted polished. He bought a 1930 Dodge 4 door sedan that he's restoring. The DODGE emblem should polish out easily. The winged grill shell medallion might be tough.
There were variations of it that I found on the web. Some brass and some were nickel. His appears to be copper (or copper plate in areas. He wants all of the colored details restored too. It's a little bit bent up but he's worried that it will break if we try to straighten it. I suggested that he let me clean it up as much as possible and then re-plate it with nickel followed by a new copper plate. I'm not sure how well I can replicate the rest of the details. I believe it should have most of the background in black but there should be a world map painted in a robin egg blue in the background and possibly have the one triangle painted white. The size is so small that even if I use a pin or a needle to apply the paint it will be hard to do.
I'd helped him out before on his '29 Nash and '70 Camaro restorations. - Mainly doing trim polishing, carb tuning and helping with the search for parts. He's more of a Chebby boy but helping those with mental problems is probably a good thing.
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One of my friends stopped over today and brought me a couple of emblems he wanted polished. He bought a 1930 Dodge 4 door sedan that he's restoring. The DODGE emblem should polish out easily. The winged grill shell medallion might be tough.
There were variations of it that I found on the web. Some brass and some were nickel. His appears to be copper (or copper plate in areas. He wants all of the colored details restored too. It's a little bit bent up but he's worried that it will break if we try to straighten it. I suggested that he let me clean it up as much as possible and then re-plate it with nickel followed by a new copper plate. I'm not sure how well I can replicate the rest of the details. I believe it should have most of the background in black but there should be a world map painted in a robin egg blue in the background and possibly have the one triangle painted white. The size is so small that even if I use a pin or a needle to apply the paint it will be hard to do.
I'd helped him out before on his '29 Nash and '70 Camaro restorations. - Mainly doing trim polishing, carb tuning and helping with the search for parts. He's more of a Chebby boy but helping those with mental problems is probably a good thing.
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