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Great looking picture. On a personal note, the ladies hair style is about what I remember my mother wearing at about this same time period..

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May seem morbid.

But I look at pictures like this and wonder.

Odds are the parents are both gone. The little girl would be in her mid 60s I guess . Wonder if shes still around

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3 hours ago, gtx6970 said:

May seem morbid.

But I look at pictures like this and wonder

A while back my wife and I were at a pub for dinner and there was an ancient photo framed on the wall I was facing.. it was a class photo from 1914.  I couldn’t stop looking at it. Knowing they were all dead now, but there they were all young, smiling and ready to take on the world. You have to wonder how they all made out

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17 hours ago, Tom Geiger said:

A while back my wife and I were at a pub for dinner and there was an ancient photo framed on the wall I was facing.. it was a class photo from 1914.  I couldn’t stop looking at it. Knowing they were all dead now, but there they were all young, smiling and ready to take on the world. You have to wonder how they all made out

About 25 years ago when my mother passed away my sister and I gathered up all of her old family pictures and were dividing them between us. At that time my wife and I had only been married a few years and had never seen any pictures of myself in my teens and early twenties. She was looking over my sisters shoulder as she explained to her who each person was. A picture of myself as a young slim man with thick hair leaning against my convertible came up and she raised her voice and said "Who is that ?" . Well we all had a good laugh and I was told to grow may hair back and lose some weight.  

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On 6/11/2018 at 11:53 AM, gtx6970 said:

May seem morbid.

But I look at pictures like this and wonder.

Odds are the parents are both gone. The little girl would be in her mid 60s I guess . Wonder if shes still around

 

Funny, I retouch old photos for a living and I'd say that 99% of the people in them are deceased. 

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Interesting! Would that happen to be an Australian '59 Ford (actually could be up to a '62)? I also see another Aussie Ford.........the Coral and off white '55 the third car in.

That would be a show stopper on the contest tables..........a right hand drive '59 Ford or Chevy! B)

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1 hour ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

Here's a few cool ones for the Mopar guys.

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Ok , i saw that 1969 Charger 500 in what looks to be B9 Blue. Could be a one-off car right there.

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3 hours ago, MrObsessive said:

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Interesting! Would that happen to be an Australian '59 Ford (actually could be up to a '62)? I also see another Aussie Ford.........the Coral and off white '55 the third car in.

That would be a show stopper on the contest tables..........a right hand drive '59 Ford or Chevy! B)

I didn't catch the right hand drive, but I assumed that they might have been Canadian or something.

The '"V-8" emblem in the center of the '56 Ford grille was a give away to me.

Plus the fact that the license plates are obviously not American.

 

Steve

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On 6/30/2018 at 7:50 PM, Rat Roaster said:

Ok , i saw that 1969 Charger 500 in what looks to be B9 Blue. Could be a one-off car right there.

B9 ? on a b-body ? !st Ive ever heard of that one.

 

Probably B7 , the Bee across the street is most likely R4 

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1 hour ago, gtx6970 said:

B9 ? on a b-body ? !st Ive ever heard of that one.

 

 

WHEW~! It's always a relief when an expert chimes in and settles these things before they get out of hand!

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40 minutes ago, Rat Roaster said:

WHEW~! It's always a relief when an expert chimes in and settles these things before they get out of hand!

Whoa, nellie.

Im not an expert. Just a  Mopar fanatic that's been around Mopar Muscle cars pretty much my entire life.

 

Edit,

I'll add here. B9 wasn't a listed avail color on B body cars. But  I'm not saying that particular paint color wasn't avail on a B-body.

MOPAR did have a special order paint color program but it would carry a 999 paint code . And a friend of mine is well versed on Charger 500's and I dont remember him ever mentioning a 999 paint code car

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I know, this is a '68 & there is no way to know whether it is a factory applied color or not, but I cannot find any information that says that B9 Blue was not available on the Chargers.

What am I missing?

 

Steve

 

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Steve, B9 was avail on the full size cars. Not the intermediates

 

Intermediates were B3 light blue metallic , B5 medium ( or sometimes called bright blue metallic) , and B7 Dark blue metallic

 

In some literature the colors are referred to as Poly instead of metallic

Mopar -  the higher numeric number on the code = designates the darker the color is

 

That 68 is probably EE1 , also a very dark blue ( I just restored one in the exact same color combo for a client last year )

 

In pictures EE1 and either B7 or maybe even B9 will be hard to tell apart unless looking at them  in person . But trust me, they are VERY different if applied correctly

 

Also, in regards to color availability . NONE of the exact same color tints avail in 1968 are the same as what was avail in 1969 ( its one of those weird  Mopar things )

 

more info here

http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/paintChipCharts/1969PaintChipCharts-01.shtml

 

http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/images/dealerships/colorAndTrim/1968/68_Charger0002.jpg

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