1961 Lonestar Flamingo - SPLASHED w/Pics

[Bighoss]

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

I'm a pragmatist, so I'd go with the one on the left with less white. Cooler in the sun and easier to keep clean!

Yup me too.

 

[TruckDrivingFool]

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Hadn't though of the keep clean side. and is my mind wrong in thinking the color would absorb more heat from the sun making those sections hotter?

I'll also throw in - I think Wood has an optical illusion going and is laughing at us because there are equal amounts of color and white. With the exception of the skirt he's just playing with the spacing.

 

[lakelover]

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

the color would absorb more heat from the sun making those sections hotter?

:redface:You're sure right about that! My brain must have been thinking backwards from frying under my deck earlier today! I'll still stick with the keeping-it-clean reasoning though.

 

[Woodonglass]

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Well the wife Overruled All of us and I made it Look EXACTLY like the Green ones except Blue Here's the top panel all Sewed up!!!!

She said White cuz it would be Cooler and didn't want there to be TOO much Blue. She's the Decorator so I HAD to go with it!!!! Thanks Guys!!!!!!

 

[produceguy]

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Very nice and again the wife is always right.

 

[GA_Boater]

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Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Wood, I think your wife is right. The seating area will be cooler and the blue becomes an accent color. And it seems more vintage to me which is the theme of the Flamingo. Subdued Art Deco if you will. Gonna look great!

 

[TruckDrivingFool]

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Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Looking good, funny how the Mrs. always wins

 

[tonk62]

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Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

I like the wife's decision, and it also eleminates two seams, easier sewing fewer seams to fail. Looks great wood!

 

[lakelover]

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

On second thought, I agree with your wife! (Too much practice.)

It'll look great no matter what you do.

 

[Woodonglass]

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Well my Son and Grandson are coming Friday and Saturday to help me Wire the boat and Get all the Hardware attached and the steering installe. I am really excited. I'll make sure and take lot's of pics. My B.I.L is doing some welding on the trailer and I ordered all the Trailer parts last night soooo. If all goes well this weekend. I shoud be able to put her on the trailer next weekend and get my nephew to help me hang the motor and hook her up. Who knows, by the middle of August I might get her WET!!!!

 

[wa_ssv197]

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Tell your wife I will send her my vinyl and old seats to use as a template and she can do mine to!

J/K Looks great!

 

[greenbush future]

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Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

The white would have been my 1st choice just because of heat. It will really look nice and I'm sure this entire boat will be babied so grease and dirt wont come into the picture. Very nice color selections on both the boat and the seats. You are giving me ideas Mike....

 

[lakelover]

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Sounds like you're going to have an old fashioned work party this weekend! Great! That will really speed things up. Hope it all comes together & there's a lot of progress. You've got quite a network there...I live pretty far from most family, and the ones who are nearby would grind me to a complete halt if they helped!

Good luck with it!

 

[Woodonglass]

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Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Well, My Son and Granson and I got up at 9:00 am this morning and put in 3 hours working on "Blue Flamingo" We got all the Cleats installed, the Sternlight and all the Instrumentation for the dash. I think she's coming along GREAT!!!!!

Oh, and Blake thinks she's fun to Drive!!!

 

[archbuilder]

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Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Looking nice Wood, hurry up we are almost out of summer!

 

[ingalp01]

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Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Looking great Wood... I agree, the pattern the wife sewed up looks great! You know what they say... Happy Wife, Happy Life!!!

 

[GA_Boater]

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Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

See you got a crew. I know I'm getting old, but boy, does the captain look young!

Wood - the dash is too much. Wheel looks like it's out of a '55 Ford, tach looks like a speedo from a '50 Ford and it looks like a Mega Big Gulp cup holder in the center. You're going to have the coolest boat on the lake.

 

[TruckDrivingFool]

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

Did you teach him to make the motor noises?

Nice progress and it looks GREAT!

Is that a warning light next to the Bigulp holder?

 

[Decker83]

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Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

That's a GREAT LOOKING grandson behind the wheel and the Blue Flamingo looks almost as good!!!! (LOL)

 

[Woodonglass]

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Re: 1961 Lonestar "Flamingo" - I finally Started w/pics

We Started wiring again @9:00 am this morning. I got up @ 7:00 and got things organized and let my son sleep in since he was doing all the work.

We finsihed @ 2:00 this afternoon. My son did an excellent job. Everything Worked. We had a BIT of an issue figuring out how to make everthing work off the ignition but finally figured it out and it all works like a charm. I think she looks GREAT!!!!

We rolled her Outside to take some better Pics.

She still shines pretty good but needs a bath pretty bad. That will come tomorrow.

My Grandson Blake, thinks PoPo's boat needs to hurry up and get on the "Ocean"!!!!