my Pacemaker

I'm surprised some of you guessed that the car is Peacock Green. To my eyes, in this particular picture, the car appears blue. Here's the story. In 1979 I bought the car from Everett Hudson, and he had just bought it from the widow of the original owner. It had never been out in winter and even in summer, if the old fellow thought it might rain, he would call a cab. The only thing was that as he got older, he had a few scrapes, so the paint was a bit patchy.Everett's friend, Jim Bonquet, who used to work at a Hudson dealer and had a paint shop in his garage, took the car in for the winter of 79-80. In the spring, he called me to say that he was about ready to spray it, but he had found a color chip for a 1971 Chevy paint that was an absolute match for the Hudson Peacock Green. He suggested I go with the more modern paint, but he asked that I come down and look at the sun visor that he had just painted to see if I wanted to go with that paint.

When I got to his place that Saturday, Jim said that he had decided to go ahead and paint the car anyway, so if I hadn't liked it, it was too late. However, I loved it and though the paint chips were an exact match, side by side, on the door jams, you could see that the new paint had just a bit more blue in it than the Hudson Peacock Green had. Soon after it was painted, I went to the big car show at Topsfield, MA, where a man was photographing all cars as they entered, then selling the owners small viewers with the car's picture in it. When I looked at mine the car appeared to be dark blue. The photographer said he used Agfa film and that apparently picked up the blue with a vengeance. In person the paint is definitely green, but this photo which I took with my new digital camera also appears blue though not nearly so much as the Agfa film did.

By the way, the Chevy paint is called Twilight. That green doesn't suggest twilight to me.

Geoff Blake

:cheer: Richie,
There are times I wish mine had a 262 with overdrive. Mine has just the standard three speed so I keep it at about 60 on the highway.
The regular brakes seem fine to me, I can almost stand the thing on its nose. Are the disks an improvement? Right now my car is in the garage having the clutch replaced. The mechanics did not know, nor did I, that the transmission has to come out through the interior. They are learning as they go. The floor mats with padding beneath were stuck to the floor, then with those out, they had trouble finding the bolts that hold down the big panel in the center of the floor. The bolts were all gummed up with tar sealant. But, it is on its way and should be done by next Tuesday, and I hope that takes care of the clutch problems.

Geoff Blake