Pin Striping
 

I saw this picture on another site and found it interesting. Forgive me if it has already been posted here.

Yes - many times.

Someone from Florida gave me a beautiful clear hardcopy of that photo back in the pre-internet days. It might be ambitious for me to think all the internet versions floating around came from my first post of that photo, but...maybe.

A couple thoughts, I guess, while we are here:

a) Photo taken in the Pontiac Michigan facility, Plant 16. That's were the final prep/polish took place before shipment.

b) You can see he is using a Beugler paint tool and following along the top of a paint fixture attached by vacuum cups. In spite of that there was a lot of variation between assembly plants, in terms of where the stripes started and stopped, and in some facilities the ends of the stripe were "taped" to provide a terminus, whereas in other plants the stripe was left to trail off naturally.

c) Note that this operation takes place off line. Jobs that are not tied to the assembly line (heavy repair, drivers, material control, etc) are highly coveted in the assembly plant and - since every benefit and job assignment is based purely on seniority - are usually manned by the older personnel. I love the fact that this looks like somebody's grandpa doing this job. I don't love that I am probably older than him now than he was when this photo was taken.

K

You are always a wealth of knowledge. Thank you for sharing with us.

I remenber using those back in the day at Auto Finisher's Speed and Custom.:)
https://i.postimg.cc/QBmxnmVf/prokit13-3675102904.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/c6r4XQWc/stripe...3236145005.jpg

I have been hand-painting pinstripes with a brush for over 35 years and have made a very good living at it. All I have to say about that "thing" is try doing scroll work with it!













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At the Buick they used what KS Circutguy showed with the vacumn attached fixture.