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Painting a car in the style of a narrowboat.

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Andrew Denny

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Feb 6, 2003, 6:43:34 PM2/6/03
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Continuing the boat-painting theme, I was just wondering:
Has anyone ever had a car painted in an old-fashioned canal boat
style, scumbling, roses & castles, coachpainting, etc?
Would it work?

I've just been quoted nearly a grand to have my vandal-scratched car
resprayed to look like it came out of the showroom, and it had crossed
my mind to have something a little more memorable.

Gibbo

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Feb 6, 2003, 7:33:40 PM2/6/03
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(Andrew Denny) wrote:

Having spent the last 10 years driving modern cars and sailing modern trendy
boats "me and the Mrs" decided a few months back to take a step back to reality
and tradition (hopefully happiness too !).

The trendy boat has gone, along with the modern house (yes we've sold up), to
be replaced with a (modern) trad style Nb.

The car now has to go. Just tonight we've been looking at a 1953 Austin. It's
SOOOO tempting. If we're gonna do it we might aswell do it properly :)

Though we'd never considered painting it with flowers and castles the thought
does seem rather tempting. No road tax either.

Gibbo

P & Q Brown

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Feb 7, 2003, 2:54:03 AM2/7/03
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My wife's elderly Ford Fiesta was showing some rust spots at the back,
so instead of doing anything about the rust, she incorporated it into a
canal-style flower painting.

--
Peter Brown
(n/b Nimrod)

Goforcure

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Feb 7, 2003, 6:33:35 AM2/7/03
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Seen a black cab in Bathhampton a few years ago all painted up in roses and
castles. I think it was actually something to do with the K & A trust

David Mann

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Feb 7, 2003, 4:25:58 AM2/7/03
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"Andrew Denny" <d...@grannybuttons.com> wrote in message
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Take a look at some of the lorries in India - very colourful if not exactly
roses and castles.

David


Robin Smithett

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Feb 7, 2003, 4:27:15 AM2/7/03
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There was a beautiful Mini at Hawkesbury a few years back, the whole
exterior done in graining. Not sure if it still exists.

Robin Smithett


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Clive Field

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Feb 7, 2003, 3:23:22 PM2/7/03
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Dear Andrew,
Vehicular Decoration

On our New Zealand campervan journeys last year, near a Raglan campsite, we
came upon a motley collection of lorries and buses that at first sight
looked like the communities of new age traveller's vehicles that frequented
our lay byes back home a couple of years ago. Closer examination revealed an
enterprising group of travellers who have formed what they call 'The House
Truck Bazaar'. They had set up in a wagon train type circle and an array of
beads and bracelets, tie-dye skirts and other craft was on display.
Even closer inspection gave us a real surprise. A 1963 model AEC Reliance
Coach. It was painted in full narrowboat fashion, dark green and cream
superstructure with a band of scumble along the sides. Swags of knobstick
roses adorned the side panels and doorway. We found its owner to be Rob
Arnett, a native of Cheshire and former narrowboater who once owned the
historic boat 'Paragon' back home.

Rob told us he was a plumber and gas fitter by trade who came out to, and
fell in love with, New Zealand seven years ago. Two years ago, he took to
the highway aboard the elderly public service vehicle that is now his home
and workshop. "I have been back to England for important things like my
daughter's wedding but this life suits me." He told us, "You can live
cheaply selling this stuff to the holidaymakers and the scenery between the
towns is great." The stuff he referred to was a collection of old wood saws
and frying pans tastefully enhanced with some well-executed roses and
scrollwork.

We agreed with him regarding New Zealand's scenery. I asked him what was the
down side if any to this way of life. "I've become an organiser of these
fairs. Now I have to be responsible for dealing with the odd family squabble
and who has which pitch, but we get on well in the main. We just go off on
our own and agree to meet up at he next fair, so its ok really."

Bit like boating eh?
Anybody know Rob Arnett?
Best Regards
Clive Field


Hustler

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Feb 8, 2003, 5:04:17 PM2/8/03
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A friend had a white Maxi a few years back. She was bored one weekend and
got to painting it up, not with roses and castles but something close to
Magic Roundabout style flowers and grass all round the lower half of the
bodywork!

So when she got married, no dashing elegant Rolls...oh no...HER wedding car
was the mMagic Maxi as it was known!

Iain
NB Grace

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brian

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Feb 11, 2003, 2:06:05 PM2/11/03
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"Robin Smithett" <ro...@deletesmithett.co.uk> wrote in message
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> There was a beautiful Mini at Hawkesbury a few years back, the whole
> exterior done in graining. Not sure if it still exists.
>
> Robin Smithett
Ya I've seen that as well

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Brian from sunny Suffolk by the river Hundred

Graham Keens

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Feb 11, 2003, 4:45:29 PM2/11/03
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Andrew asked about painting cars .....

take a look at http://website.lineone.net/~familykeens/skodacanalia.jpg

it was an impression of what we thought our friend Terry, who paints
canalia, should do to his car ... but his wife wouldn't let him. She was so
convinced that he would do it when she wasn't there, that she made him buy a
silver car instead.


Graham
http://www.jannock.org.uk


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