Two-tone paint jobs first appeared on the scene during the ’50s, and while some are best forgotten, there’s no denying that a well executed two-tone paint job can be a real head turner
Why not make your car a two-tone dream by having the most stunnig look in your area!
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Custom Re-Spray Paint Work Our technicians provide custom painting services to match your vehicle's replacement panels to your car and restore the showroom shine and lustre to your post-accident vehicle. With expert workmanship, undetectable colour matching services, and the highest quality paint available on the market, we make your car look better than it did before the accident.
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Low Bake Oven Spray Booth |
This is a self contained room purely for respraying your vehicle. Fan assisted filtered air maintained at a regulated temperature, ensures a clean top quality paint finish. Temperatures of up to 80 degrees centigrade are used to bake and cure the paint for a tough durable finish.
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Vehicle Painters Duties and Tasks |
Vehicle painters may perform the following tasks:
- remove rough spots on vehicle panels and sand surfaces by hand or with electric/air sanders
- select appropriate paint or mix paints using automated paint mixing equipment according to a pre-determined formula
- mix and match paint so that it is similar to the existing paint shade, or select pre-mixed paint
- operate equipment to clean, wash, strip, sand, remove corrosion, fill dents or otherwise prepare items for application of paint, lacquer or other protective or decorative coatings
- touch-up paintwork and apply polish to vehicles
- remove masking papers and wax and polish finished paintwork
- prepare and apply paint signs, artwork or stencils, computergenerated decals or other decorative items on finished products.
- treat vehicles with rust-proofing chemicals.
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Two Tone Mk1 Consul Cortina Info
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Originally the name Cortina was "borrowed" from the Italian Skiing resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, in the Dolomite mountains.
The car was billed as "The medium sized car at a small car price", at the time this "small car price" was around £550! and was launched to compete with technically advanced Mini.
The Cortina was available in Standard, Deluxe, Super, GT and Lotus versions. The Cortina was available as 2-door, 4-door and Estate forms. However the Lotus was only available as 2-door versions. The GT was mainly 2-door versions but they also came as 4-door saloons.
The engine in the new Cortina is a 1,200 cc. unit which has been developed from the famous Anglia 105E engine and is now adapted to develop 48.5 b.h.p. Top speed of this new model is somewhere in the region of 80 m.p.h., whilst the touring fuel consumption can be placed between 36 and 38 m.p.g.
Acceleration performance is particularly good, giving a standing start to 60 m.p.h., in approximately 23 seconds. The new, all synchromesh four-speed gearbox, with optional gear shift on floor or column, is of a particularly sturdy design and should wear very well over a long period.
Once it's long gone from the market, manufacturers are usually quite sporting about problems encountered in the early days of a model range. Ford has certainly been playing the game during the 40th anniversary of the week in September 1962 when the Mark I Cortina was launched, although the game has a few more twists and turns than even Ford seems to realise.
The car's original project name was Archbishop, selected by Ford of Britain "just for fun, to outrank a Ford of Germany project, code named Cardinal. Later, Ford's British product planners discovered that Cardinal referred to a bird, not a churchman's title."
Well, fine, but the Germans scored a double victory there: archbishops actually rank below cardinals.
Mind you, Ford has owned up to asking the mayor of Cortina in Italy if he would mind the town's name being used, while not being aware that it was about to market a car which would translate in Madrid, Barcelona and similar centres as the Ford Curtain.
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