[rawy]

Happy New Year & all the best for our cars and their owners in 2015


My name is Walter, i'm actually rebuilding a '53 Mainline 2 door ranch wagon to factory specs, the first owner's coachbuilder modified the car into a panelvan keeping the tailgate but replaced the quarter windows by horizontally opening panels, all the interior was removed and lost, bought the car in the mid 80's, drove it and when I decided to restore, it took ten years to find the missing parts, the engine/trans are original 215 cui 101HP Mileage Maker 6 with 3 speed man.

Now the question : 1953 Mainline Colours, Two-Tone shemes and interiors

The Dash in my car is M-2J188

Did all the mainline cars in 1953 have this interior/dash colour ?

the car is stripped and the first steps will be to rebuild the quarter interior including side windows, using the mix of new/old parts I gathered, some screws and weatherseals are still missing, the battleship linoleum is still a
headache, the exact measures of the wood for the quarter seats miss.
Some advice with Interior colours but colours in general would be of great help as there's not much of these cars left here.

with a little help 2015 could be the one to revive the Wagon ?

walter