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Thank You Karl, I'll try to check Restoration Supply Company in California, Uploaded a few pics of the actual job, all the black sheetmetal parts where sandblasted and powdercoated, they basically look like new and no visible rust damage, the challenge now is to find /clean /organise all the...

Thanks Will & Mike, I'm actually two and a half years from pension age, with the actual pandemy situation I'll go for an early pension and try to finish all the stuff I collected or took apart in the last years :D have a pair of triple 2 stroke '70 Kawasakis and a Lancia Fulvia 1.6HF with...

It's over five years I last posted here :o Years flying by, the project got ahead but slowly, found battleship Linoleum from Armstrong, matching colour, slightly thinner than the original and I grooved it according to the original, now the quarter interior is waiting to be rebuilt. Also had all...

The '53 Mainline 2 door Ranch Wagon was five when I rolled out of production Walter

Where to find original Paints, putties, etc. Thanks Talkwrench & 38 coupe, I knew when I stripped the car over 10 years ago, the rebuild to factory specs would be the most painfull option and the waste of time till now is mainly due to the search for parts, the shipping headaches for oversized...

Hello Mike With the help I get here it makes it's easyer With more info found in an other forum I'm conviced now the best solution for the batlleship linoleum is to go with the thicker Armstrong reference 3,2mm and to route the groves in it, some of the Armstrong references are easily...

A pic says more than thousand words Armstrong DLW samples 2,5mm front & backside with Ford '53 Colour chart and the SMS material samples, second pic trying to show the differences in thickness Was on the web for an hour this morning but did not find any better walter

Checked the Restoration Supply California site, the description of their Battleship Linoleum fits the Armstrong produced lino, it's not ribbed but it's the first Automotive related offer I saw walter

battleship linoleum Thanks Jeff & Jim I'll search the indicated paths What I know on battleship linoleum and what I found The Original stuff is brown ribbed 4mm, 5/32" thick The closest replacement I found is produced by Armstrong, they carry two varieties in 3,2mm, 1/8" and 2mm,5/64"...

Sorry for the delayed reply, busy start in 2015 at work, completely new informatic system, can feel the muscle up there tends to become lazy with age (wagon -5) I was in doubt about the fact that all the 53 Fords had brown interior but my original brochure even shows a brown interior in the...

Thanks 51504bat I'm going to check woodie people, could find some suppliers of "close to the original stuff" but not close enough in my opinion. Yep the cooch translations, my mother tongue is french, forensics was the term I should have used instead of english for police scientifique Went...

Thank You very much for the warm reception and the useful hints guy's I bought the car end of 1988 in a fairly good state from a lady who was fed up driving with overheating problems. Until 1995 when the internet came it was almost impossible to find anything related to a car that came into the...

My location is the Jura or Watchmakers region of Switzerland, my car was built in Antwerp/Belgium and served as intervention car for the City of Basel scientific police.

Happy New Year & all the best for our cars and their owners in 2015 My name is Walter, i'm actually rebuilding a '53 Mainline 2 door ranch wagon to factory specs, the first owner's coachbuilder modified the car into a panelvan keeping the tailgate but replaced the quarter windows by...