<< I'm going
to try and contact the Danbury Mint research department to see what they
used as a basis for their color selection, but this does agree with what I
believe I found in my stripping routine of the weekend. >>
I did some consulting for Danbury's AD models. They find someone who says he
has a 100 point truck and take pictures and notes. They farm the work out to
a research / prototype company. when they did a 53 AD truck, I told them the
chrome was not available during the Korean war, and documented ti with
factory lit. their reply was "chrome sells" so it was unauthentically on the
final version. I was mad as hell.
Go by what you found at the bottom layer of paint as factory authentic.
Bob ADler
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