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Title: Factory stainless steel cars
Post by: 78 Chevyrado on November 03, 2008, 07:12:22 pm
Here's something cool I found.  no they aren't DeLoreans...  Actually one is a factory all stainless bodied '36 ford, and a '60 thunderbird and a '67 lincoln. 

http://www.alleghenyludlum.com/pages/companyinfo/stainlesscars.asp (http://www.alleghenyludlum.com/pages/companyinfo/stainlesscars.asp)
Title: Re: Factory stainless steel cars
Post by: VileZambonie on November 03, 2008, 08:08:17 pm
Check out the chrome blazer

(http://mcdormanshow.com/84blazer.jpg)
Title: Re: Factory stainless steel cars
Post by: dunedigger on November 03, 2008, 08:25:30 pm
Wow, I remember that blazer from a four wheeler magazine from like 15 years ago I think.  It was in a small clip at a show.
Title: Re: Factory stainless steel cars
Post by: dunedigger on November 03, 2008, 08:26:14 pm
Oh, and if anyone wants to stamp out stainless everything for these trucks please do.   ;D
Title: Re: Factory stainless steel cars
Post by: 78 Chevyrado on November 03, 2008, 08:48:55 pm
Check out the chrome blazer

(http://mcdormanshow.com/84blazer.jpg)

I always wondered what that would look like,  I'd love to drive it just to blind everybody all around me with the glare.  I think you found a "color"  that would top black on needing perfect bodywork.
Title: Re: Factory stainless steel cars
Post by: MudMonster85 on November 03, 2008, 08:53:11 pm
^ Yes!! can't have a single ding in that paint job.
Title: Re: Factory stainless steel cars
Post by: Blazin on November 04, 2008, 10:10:03 pm
I might be wrong, but for some reason I seem to recall as a kid seeing a stainless steel Corvette prototype /  one off thing???
Title: Re: Factory stainless steel cars
Post by: Dragon on November 05, 2008, 03:03:47 am
I might be wrong, but for some reason I seem to recall as a kid seeing a stainless steel Corvette prototype /  one off thing???
No Sir you are not wrong with that thought!  You're thinking about John Delorean's Version of the Mid-Engined Astro/Aero Vette Concepts, before he left GM to build his Deloreans......
Here is John's Version
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/dragon9c1/1177613685_4d6a92a18a_b.jpg)
Previous Versions of the Early Seventies Models were Aluminum Proposals, with this one being the only Stainless Steel Design.....
Title: Re: Factory stainless steel cars
Post by: nico on November 05, 2008, 11:27:47 am
That chrome Blazer is interesting... I remember seeing some chrome Chevy trucks built for the Olympics in Atlanta. They were plain-jane, stripped long beds with chrome bodies, built to haul mobile spotlights in the bed during the opening and closing ceremonies.
Title: Re: Factory stainless steel cars
Post by: cinamanstix on November 05, 2008, 04:45:55 pm
I remember someone that was there at the olympics.  What I was told is it was basicall a mylar coating that was placed on the vehicles and started to peel off during the ceremonies.  I could be mistaked though.
Title: Re: Factory stainless steel cars
Post by: 78 Chevyrado on November 05, 2008, 06:34:24 pm
Here's another site I had in my favorites, they chrome plate cars...
http://www.goldtouchinc.com/cosmichrome/gallery/Cosmichromecars.html (http://www.goldtouchinc.com/cosmichrome/gallery/Cosmichromecars.html)
Title: Re: Factory stainless steel cars
Post by: Blazin on November 05, 2008, 08:15:47 pm
Yeah thats the one. Was a long time ago when I was just a kid.
Title: Re: Factory stainless steel cars
Post by: tusk on November 06, 2008, 08:34:43 am

No Sir you are not wrong with that thought!  You're thinking about John Delorean's Version of the Mid-Engined Astro/Aero Vette Concepts, before he left GM to build his Deloreans......[/quote]

or to deal in a little cocaine ;D
Title: Re: Factory stainless steel cars
Post by: SUX2BU99 on November 06, 2008, 11:43:13 am
Chromed bodies are awesome!! I've always though that would be the coolest 'paint job'. There are some recent high-end European cars that the manf's polished their aluminum bodies and put them on the auto show circuit. I recall Jag being one and I think an Audi or two and maybe even a Veyron. They now have a chrome paint process that actually does look like real chrome. Pretty good breakthrough in my opinion.

Anybody remember a cheezy TV show back in the early 80's with the same red-headed lady that was the Sargeant in the Private Benjamin movie? She was a sheriff and had a chrome-plated Caprice cop car and everything on her that was metal was chromed.