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Alright... started work on my Orange Squeeze cooler, it started out rough but I had enough parts left over from a 7up cooler
to make a junior out of it along with Rod, having a lid made... I just have it pieced together and haven't had any body work done yet.
It has a couple holes (WHY!!!??) drilled through it and some good dents and dings... No serious rust issues... But I thought it
to rare to toss and only paid $45 for it...
It started out yellow with red letters and a black base and black lid (color option left) but I thought I would try ORANGE as a color
what option do you guys like most...

My vote is for the third one. Off white with the orange. Black lids show all the dirt and scratches badley.

I also like the third one  like the off white :smile:.

I like the fourth one... Just to be different.

I like the 3rd and 5th...
Agree with Rod on the black lid will show to much dust and such..

My vote goes to #3

#1

I like #3

I like the 3rd option as well!

 :drinking: Tim :drinking:

#4

Unless painting a fantasy piece, I would stick with the original paint scheme #1.
That is the way it was and how it should be! Walter's book pictures scheme #4, so what is real!
If I were buying a restored piece....it being redone in original theme might sway me if it were a tad overpriced.

However I read somewhere that if you like it, then that is all that matters!
Aesthetically I think #3 looks best.

My vote's for #3 :smile:

I like the off white as well. I was going to say 3 or 6, but I agree with the comments on the black.

#3 would be sweet! You are the Quikold King!

#3 and #6 look like a peach color to me, not off white. I'm leaning towards #4.

I like #5

#5 for me. Red lid and base gives it a nice contrast to the orange paint.

Thanks guys... I am torn... I know that I always say go with the original scheme.
like 81 not being two toned, or pin stripes, etc... but bright yellow and red letters
for a Orange Brand soda?  :Oo: I know red and yellow make orange but shouldn't a
orange brand have orange in it? :smile:

As far as fantasy (model wise) with original parts I have left... I'm
taking a rough Quikold D-144 down to a D-48 with replacement lid and cap catcher.
The cooler in the book is a Orange Crush... and though I like the scheme on that
I don't want to copy as I might someday come across another one of those.

The off white is really kind of a pail/creamy orange sherbet color with dark orange letters and either
matching base and lid or black base and lid... thought those colors “looked” 40s... and it kinda
(know it's a stretch) staying with the light (yellow-ish) body and red-ish letters like original?
I have my 7up junior up next then this one...
thanks guys!

I was going to say #6, but with the black issue... maybe #3.

It's #3 for me...

do it like number 3 and if you don't like it I'll take it off your hands.. :biggrin:

What software package (i.e. photoshop?) did you use to draw the mock-ups?  Pretty cool.  Thinking now about doing it for some of my sliders...

I just drew them up in Adobe Illustrator... Same prgram I used to clean up the letters and logos after I traced them/scanned them...
Don't want to waste $$ on paint when I don't know what I want to do just yet.

Found and took a RC cooler into photoshop and put the logo on it to see what it would look like... this is close to original colors
without the black lid and base...

If it were mine, I'd use the above  as the model.

Dang ... Here it is the way it would have been... originally yellow with red letters and black lid and base... I kinda like this now...
But it's a Orange Drink!?... with no orange? Ughhh... :darn:

Hey, Coke isn't red/white, and Pepsi isn't red/white or blue!!!

Whatever you chose its' gonna look killer... I still like that light orange /Sherbert color with Orange lettering.

John

No. 1
BUT with orange lid n base,..... and the orange lettering as in 3 n 6

So basically No.1 yellow with No. 3 orange lettering, top n bottom