crazy 70s paint jobs

BigWhip said

I saw a one car (1966 chevy) that was tiger striped. What made it interesting was that is wasn't painted, it was fuzzy. The car was covered in short felt like material, sota like the old G.I. Joe's head were. I haven't seen another car done this way. The owner bought the car with this "paint" on it.
The car did look good. I know I wasn't drinking because I saw this car for over a year. Anyone know what that process was?

Whip

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When I was in Junior High (early 1970's) there was a girl I went to school with whose dad was THE local custom car guy. He & a local grocery store owner went in together to buy the equipment to do paint jobs like this. It was some sort of electrostatic process IIRC. They painted two cars. The body guy had a black '56 Chevy & the grocery store guy had a late 1960's or early 1970's car that was sort of a gold color (I think it was a Pontiac Grand Prix) As far as I know those were the only ones they did. I remember the Pontiac faded pretty bad after a while & I think the stuff started peeling off of the Chevy a few years later.

In the mid 1970's I was at a Darryl Starbird show & they had a Batmobile there that was done in the fuzzy stuff. The pinstripes were Day-Glow orange pinstripe tape. It looked pretty cheezy. I've got some low quality snapshots of that one somewhere.