Styletone paint pattern on 59 Custom Fordor

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Green&White

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Comparing the paint pattern around the "A" pillar in the 2 photos, my Dad's on the left, mine on the right. I'm certain that the pillar on my car should have been painted green, not white. But I'm not sure about how far the green should be extended onto the top part of the "inner" fender that is exposed when the door is open. Should there be a half-inch strip of white under the windshield chrome and green the rest of the way ? How did they do it in the factory? Paint the car and fenders separately and attach the fenders afterward ?

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My 58 Edsel Pacer (Louisville) had the body painted Coral, the coves were masked off and the rest painted yellow. The roof was painted primer and white, the fenders and hood were painted primer and yellow. Interesting tidbit, inside the trunk was primer and yellow, the underside of the trunk lid was a mix of coral and primer with no particular pattern to suggest over spray. The fire wall was coral under the yellow as well.

A 57 500 (San Diego) had the body painted white (roof too) and the lower part painted blue. The fenders and hood were painted primer and blue under the stainless. The tape line on it was in the door jam where the quarter wrapped onto it, under the sill plate and straight forward. The hinge pillar was all white. The tape line on the doors was the skin fold on the back side, rest of the door frame was white.

My Ranchero (also San Diego) has the same tape lines and color application as the 500.

Having said all of that, I believe the tape lines on the green/white car to be incorrect. That entire hinge column should be white.
 
Could the cars have been painted differently depending on which plant built the car?


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Bear in mind I'm referring to the philosophy that was used in the '55 model year, but from what I have seen, that practice carried on through the years Ford offered two-tone paint jobs.
Regardless of whether you had a styletone or a unique two-tone pattern (yes they were different), the door posts, door jamb and exposed areas of the door shell on the sedan models were painted whatever the base color of the car was.
Lets take two cars, both are blue-white two-tone:
A styletone blue-white car had blue below side trim, white above side trim ending at top of rain gutter, then blue on top. the base color used to paint the entire shell of the car was white; (firewall, undercarriage, floor, inside doors and doorjambs).
A unique two-tone blue-white car could have blue below side trim, white from above side trim to the belt moulding, blue from above side moulding to top of rain gutter, then white on top. However with the unique two-tone, the base color used to paint the entire shell of the car was blue.
Thus, you can see the posts were always the base color, inside and out.
Below the trim line where the two colors meet at the inside of the doors, which are the base color, the secondary color ended at the factory seams (the little lip of metal that is folded over all around the door inner shell).
The unique two-tone pattern was only available on Fairlane series cars all of which had stainless trim on the rain gutter, further accentuating the transition of colors at the top.
BTW, sometimes the unique two-tone cars had the color scheme reversed such that the white was on bottom, blue from top of side trim to belt moulding, white door posts, then blue on top again. In that case the base color was white.
Blows your mind doesn't it?
 
Very interesting! But wasn't the "base" color the first character in the color code on the door plate? April Green (G) and Colonial White (E) is GE on my doorplate.
 
Green&White said:
wasn't the "base" color the first character in the color code on the door plate?
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YES, therefore Code CE = aquatone blue and snowshoe white with the blue being the base color.
That does not always mean white is the middle color.
Styletone CE = blue base color, blue on top and bottom, white in middle.
Unique two-tone CE = blue base color, blue on top and middle, white on bottom, and white posts between belt moulding and roof gutter.

In other words, CE was applied two different ways (styletone or unique two-tone)

Same goes for EC
Styletone EC = white base color, white on top and bottom, blue in middle.
Unique two-tone EC = white base color, white on top and middle, blue on bottom, and blue posts between belt moulding and roof gutter.
 
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