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Originally Posted by XfireZ51
Brian,
Do you recall what that paint scheme was about?
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Furthermore, the crew decided a distinctive paint scheme was needed; since Alan was the artist among the three he was put in charge of that project. Bean explained during an interview that, “Pete probably came up with the idea. Due to the heavy training schedule there was little time to give much thought to it, but I did present three or four ideas to Jim Rathmann.” Rathmann took it from there. As Bean recalled, “Jim painted one of the cars. The first paint job may have had more black – the hood may have been black. We did not really like it, but Jim was patient and repainted the car perhaps two more times.” The last presentation resulted in thin white pinstripes being added to divide the black from the gold. Some of the finer details of the project have been forgotten, though, over the last three decades; Capt. Bean could not recall why black was chosen since blue and gold are Navy colors.
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