Yes, they made a flamingo color and I believe a long thread on this was discussed a few years back on the AACA forum. I had one of the cars and found one of the original fender skirts from it last year.

Nice garage and a spiffy car! Looks like you're doing a bang-up job...literally! Is that an AMC Rogue I spy in the foreground?

Painting the hexagon is not the problem. My shaky hand just wont do the job on the black colored areas. Anybody have some additional tricks? What do the restorers do? If there is a way to do a professional looking job, I'd like to paint the hubcaps myself! Thanks for reply!

Inline with Dave's comments, they also had a special painted '53 Carribean (nick named the Scarlet Lady) which was done a one off for the styling department. It was painted Valencia Orange. Pictures of this car were taken at the PI Meet this year and last, and are in the Archive.

Obviously since this was a one off styling excursive, it never appeared on a paint chip. But it's a very "General Lee" orange.

I can't answer the question directly but in prior years, especially 1954, they did small batches of cars in non-stock schemes to test public reaction. The most well-known of these is perhaps the 1954 Amythest/Carnation combination applied to Pacifics, for which they used a special paint code letter on the VN plate not previously used; for 1954 I seem to recall it was "R" which stood for a non-stock color but not a specific one, i.e. regardless of the non-stock color it was indicated as "R".

So if a 55/56 car was so painted at the factory, I'd expect the paint code letter to be one not already used, like "I" or "O" or "U" or "W", or maybe something like "WW". Of course if an actual car in this color can't be found, this may be near impossible to track down by the usual routes.

I'm told that there was a color available - towards the end of the '56 model run perhaps? - called Flamingo, which, as can be imagined, is a shade of pink, and which does not show up in any color chip books. Anyone aware if this is correct, and does a car exist in this rare color? How would one duplicate the correct shade if there is no chip extant?

Although my goal is as correct a restoration as I can make on my Exec, I'm not above at least considering changing color to another one that's a bit more unusual while still correct for the year, and with a gray/black interior it's relatively easy to make a change.

Distilled water is boiled and the steam/vapor is condensed and collected into another container. So the collected water is pretty pure as it leaves as the sediment and minerals behind in the boiling vessel.

Reverse osmosis is a filter where water through a membrane but produces near perfect water also. But I think it does not as good of a job a the distilling process does. But then again the osmosis filtering doesn't require the elaborate heating and collection of the water so it faster and cheaper to operate.

I have a reserve osmosis setup under my kitchen sink for drinking/cooking water. But it has a small 1 gallon tank under there for reserve as it doesnt work instantly. The downside is that it may use 3 gallons of water to produce 1 gallon of drinkable water. The rest gets discarded down the drain with the contaminants. But for $150 for the entire unit, it was a hell of a lot cheaper than what we were spending annually on bottled water. I just bought everyone in the family their own reusable water bottle.

The 50/50 mixture is a convenient way to mix. I think 58% ethylene glycol (or something close to that) gives the maximum boiling point elevation/freezing point depression. More glycol than that is not a question of waste - it doesn't work as well.

Deionized water and distilled water are not the same (distilled is condensed from vapor, deionized is usually treated), but I think both are completely fine for cooling systems.

I buy reverse osmosis water for drinking, cooking, making coffee and tea.

It costs $3 for a 5 gallon jug if I bring my own jug.

Is this the same thing as distilled water? I think it should be pretty close but not exactly sure what the difference is.

East coast weather is so flukey -we were in VT last weekend, some areas S of Burlington had bare ground. Here in Binghamton we got nada last weekend, when just to the S in PA,MD,VA they got hammered. We literally have bare ground showing in many spots also at the moment... we're not going to be so lucky tomorrow though apparently. I for one am counting days to Spring!!