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Tom, I’m sure you have answered this question before, but why is the car in the picture gold, and you “new” one orange?? Oh, the body work and panel work look great so far. ………………..Mikey 
tomblake
Mikey….I am guessing you are referring to the color of the 55 in the avatar as to being gold. The original color was a mix of half red and half yellow in equal parts to make orange. The avatar is a very old and faded picture that looks gold but it was orange same as the new 55. We did try to make the new 55 look the same as the original, color and graphics.
Added a better picture to show more accurate the color of the original car but even this one is an old picture.
Note: both pictures, the avatar and this one were taken at the same place, same time and same day.
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Okey dokey, I see now. Thanks, Tom. Are you going to keep the “Race Car” look with the lettering and stuff?? Just curious.
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I agree with Pete. Take a break. Things will look better at a later time.
tomblake
Took you guys advice and took a break, very little work done the past week. Put the 55 back together with the minimum it took to drive the car(actually less than minimum, sounds good with two 4″ straight pipes). Packed Mary’s chair and went to the local car show with the work-in-process car. That was more fun than working on the car.
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We made two Christmas car shows this week end. The Plant City car show was pretty big, the weather was beautiful and that brought out tons of cars. There were lots of finished cars along with our “work-in-process-car” Almost forget how much fun the 55 is to drive.
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We made another car show in the middle of doing the bodywork. Wanted to showoff our cool hat.
P.S. Someone I know should like this hat.
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