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Owen_Dyneto wrote:
Curious - I don't think Rinshed-Mason as Packard's major paint supplier has been once mentioned on here in a decade, and suddenly it's mentioned twice.
I sure agree with Leeedy about the quality of those nitrocellulose paint jobs; properly done and given care and avoiding the worst elements they can survive splendidly for 80 or more years. As many of you know most the paint on my 34 is original and good enough for 92+ points at a CCCA Grand Classic a couple of years ago. First failures are normally crazing over the lead joints and I'm beginning to get a bit of that. The major lead joints are quite large in area and are where the 4 steel panels are joined to form the roof. The 4 fenders and hood were repainted by me many years ago with Rinshed Mason nitrocellulose lacquer and fortunately I have enough left to do some spot repair on the roof areas if they become worse.
Hello... I have certainly mentioned R-M numerous times in connection with Packard. In fact, if you go back to my article in
Car Classics magazine (December 1978) on Creative Industries, I quote a friend of mine, Gary Hutchings, who worked for Creative on the Panthers and on the Packard Request. In this quote I mention how Creative made the white pearl paint that was used on The Request, Rex Terry's black & pearl white Panther and on the Predictor. That paint was mixed by Creative, but supplied by R-M. When people today on the internet are talking about Creative and the connection with the Packard concepts, they are usually (whether they realize it or not) merely parroting back the information in that article.
I also re-discusssed R-M and Packard Pearl White on The Request and Predictor in
The Packard Cormorant magazine, (Summer, 2008 issue) in my history of the Predictor.
So perhaps R-M has not seen mention in this internet forum, but it certainly has been mentioned in print in connection with Packard many times. R-M was also mentioned in industrial magazines that covered the new Packard Conner Avenue Plant... and there were several of these. R-M also ran big ads talking about how it supplied Packard.
However, as I said earlier, I believe Ditzler also supplied some paints (lacquer) to Packard. Also Du Pont (Duco) certainly had all formulas and color chip sheets for Packard going well back into the 1930s in my records. Du Pont issued color chips and formulas for Packard well into 1956. It is rather amazing to look at color chips from the 1930s and then compare them to those issued for V8 Packards... kinda..WOW!
Finally... in the old days of Detroit when the Packard Plant on East Grand Blvd. was still producing cars, if you drove past the plant heading west, then turned north (right) on Mt. Elliot you would eventually come to the split of Mt. Elliot and Conant Avenue. Somewhere up that way I remember to the right was a stamping plant and a huge outdoor fenced area there hundreds of thousands of black painted car chassis were stacked... row after row, column after column. An amazing sight if there ever was one. There was always a hum in the air-day or night... people working... making good salaries while they were making cars. And there always was the heavy fragrance of fresh automotive paint in the air, especially the sweet smell of nitro lacquer. Like someone once said about Los Angeles, you could smell it before you could see it.
Anyway... eventually along here was a huge overhead enclosed bridge. The sides were painted in brilliant colors (I remember a lot of orange) and it was illuminated with floodlights at night. It said..."RINSHED-MASON"... which my little cousin back then proudly referred to as "rinsed mason." I sure miss it all.
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