Bob and all,
I was in the same boat with Danbury Mint on another occasion.
I was restoring a 1967 VW Bug. They came out with a yellow Bug of the same
year. I called them because there are many one time differences with a '67
Bug. It is the ONLY year that had the old style bumper w/ over riders and
new style, 12 volt headlights. Their version had the old style, 6 volt
headlights. They said it was authentic, I KNEW it was not. They do not seem
to care very much about originality, they care about sales.
If they ever did a 1954 AD who knows how many things they would get wrong....
All The Best
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George La Fountaine
Grandpa's 1954 Chevy 3104
Restoring to Original!
At 06:26 AM 6/17/99 EDT, you wrote:
>
><< I'm going
> to try and contact the Danbury Mint research department to see what they
> used as a basis for their color selection, but this does agree with what I
> believe I found in my stripping routine of the weekend. >>
>
>I did some consulting for Danbury's AD models. They find someone who says
he
>has a 100 point truck and take pictures and notes. They farm the work out
to
>a research / prototype company. when they did a 53 AD truck, I told them
the
>chrome was not available during the Korean war, and documented ti with
>factory lit. their reply was "chrome sells" so it was unauthentically on
the
>final version. I was mad as hell.
>
>Go by what you found at the bottom layer of paint as factory authentic.
>Bob ADler
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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