![]() It really takes lots of clear coats, especially if using the large flake.Ī good friend of ours Bob Spina says he remembers working with “Big Daddy” Ed Roth in the mid to late 50’s applying flake with a shoe box with holes in and shaking it out over job. FireFlake is built from solvent resistant polymer metallized for reflective effect then coated with clear or transparent colored finishes to give unique depth and color. With the new gravity feed guns, it would be much easier to apply. All the details were in the magazine article. They were the original manufacturers and gave me pointers on spraying the flake. The large flakes were a bit “gaudy” for my tastes, so I opted for the smaller, less intrusive which the Bobeckmun Company provided. Dick always enjoyed Tex’s saying that the roadster looked “quite distinctive on Hollywood Boulevard.” According to himself, “it was really bad (and I don’t mean good) by today’s meaning. The Buick paint did not make it to “show” or even “street” quality, and Dick can’t remember how Tex got rid of it. It was at a time where I was learning and doing most of the work myself, since money was tight in those days.” The older car mentioned in the story was actually Tex Smith’s Buick, not Dick’s roadster. In 2013 Dick told Kustomrama that “Dean was a great guy, and he could have painted it, but he didn’t. The article did also discuss that an “older car was painted at Dean Jeffries”, which made it sound like it was Dick’s roadster. As the photo shoot was done at Jeffries’ shop, many thought it was Jeffries that applied the Metalflake on the car. The Metalflaked version of Dick’s roadster, that Tex shot, was featured in Hot Rod Magazine February 1961 in a cover story about Metalflake paint. After Dick had painted the car, his buddy Tex Smith thought it would be a good idea to drive it down to Dean Jeffries for a photo shoot. Rather than using gold Metalflake as base for the Candy Apple Red, Dick used silver Metalflake, with the final color coming closer to magenta or cherry red. ![]() He used two toners to arrive at the exact color he wanted. Then again, Ive seen a few Fender metallic. Dick painted the car at a friends body shop in Eagle Rock, California toward the end of 1960. At first I thought that maybe they were the same and the only difference was that back in the early 60s Fender had licensed the Metal-Flake name and its various trademarked colors (Inca Gold, Candy Apple Red, Burgundy Wine, etc.) but today they just use the generic term 'sparkle-finish' instead. It was also painted in Kandy translucent red, white and blue.ĭick Scritchfield’s 1932 Ford roadster is known as the first car to ever receive a Metalflake paint job. The fins featured 30 coats of imported Swedish pearl of essence which was made of crushed fish scales and crushed diamond dust. “George’s early experience with the flake proved that it would be a wild wild finish, subtle and velvet soft in the indirect lighting, yet extremely lively where the strong light is directed”. The overall reflection quality of the flake was softened by the addition of a small amount of pearl. George used plain silver flake for the body. A trial was offered to George Barris for the XPAK 400 since it was going to be displayed at the National Car Show in Detroit. The particles were precision cut, coated aluminum foil that gave a metallic finish, and it was supposedly the first time the product was available for commercial use. ![]() ![]() The press release could further state, that Metalflake was a revolutionary new development by the Bobeckmun Company, a Division of the Dow Chemical Company. The XPAK 400 featured 35 coats of nitro cellulose lacquer, that according to a press release by Barris Kustoms, contained a million particles of chromed aluminum called “Metalflake”. In 1959 Barris Kustoms debuted their futuristic air car, the XPAK 400 at the New York World’s Fair. Please click on this link to view the original piece. 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