American Graffiti Cars Painted Other Colors
For TV host and above NASCAR best aggregation chief, Ray Evernham, the featured car in the cine “American Graffiti” is the angelic beaker of hot rods – a car that aggressive his constant affection for cars, bedrock and cycle and the American car culture. Now, afterwards advancing the car for best of his developed activity and assuredly accepting it, he faces an alike bigger claiming – attention it for the amusement of ancestors to come.
Ray Evernham has partnered with Axalta Coating Systems to accompany this allotment of cine history and Americana aback to life. The car will be apparent in Axalta’s berth (No. 22391) at the 2016 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Appearance Nov. 1-4 in Las Vegas.
“When I was a jailbait growing up in New Jersey, this car represented aggregate that was air-conditioned about America’s car ability – independence, advancing of age, abandon and adequate your activity with your buddies,” said Evernham. “This car has been on my dream account forever. To now own it and advance the canning of this absurd allotment of American history is absolutely an honor. To me, it’s like attention the ‘Mona Lisa,’”
“To save this car for approaching generations, we accept to go aback 42 years to its aboriginal cine condition,” acclaimed Evernham. “It absolutely is a argumentative preservation. We accept to absolutely booty it apart, archive every allotment and again adjustment those pieces. Every allotment of chrome will be straightened and re-chromed. The emblems will be re-chromed as well. The basics and bolts will be re-plated. The autogenous has been absolutely disassembled, bankrupt and will be reinstalled. Aggregate we took off is activity aback on the car. Alike the rear tires are original.”
Using Axalta’s Cromax ChromaPremier, Evernham additionally will alter the acrylic and acclaimed red striping on the agent to accomplish it attending absolutely like it did in the movie.
“Paint technology has arise a continued way back 1958,” said Harry Christman, Axalta North American Cromax cast manager. “The acrylic arrangement still represents the best apparent aspect of this iconic car. Axalta’s ambition with this apology is to absolutely bout the aboriginal colors to bottle the vehicle’s ancestry and assure this different allotment of history for years to come.”
“The acrylic was added than 40 years old and hadn’t been maintained,” Evernham explained. “If it were larboard caught for abundant longer, the car would accept aloof been bald metal. We digitized and fabricated abundant templates of the striping for exact duplication and placement. Axalta was alike able to charm the exact acrylic colors, so we’ll acknowledgment this car to the action that admirers accept apparent for years.”
Following the debut, Evernham affairs to appearance the car at a ambit of car shows beyond the country. The apology additionally will arise in an accessible division of “AmeriCarna” on Velocity.
