Cars and trucks bearing PPG finishes earned several key awards at the annual Shades of the Past Hot Rod Roundup in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Car builders Zach
Ingram and Alan Johnson took two of the three prestigious
honors in the new Street Rodder Triple Crown of Rodding –
consisting of Best Street Machine, Best Street Cruiser and Best
Street Rod awards – and Kevin Simmons took the noteworthy
Best Finish award, while Dustin Foust and Jason Graham each
earned Top 25 honors.
Zach Ingram and his shop, ZRodz and Customs in
Knox, Indiana, captured the Best Street Machine award
with a 1970 ’Cuda he entered. The car, owned by Casey
Hornik and painted by Ingram, sported a radiant white coat
achieved with a mix of PPG products: DELTRON DP90LF
Epoxy Primer, DPS3055 V-PRIME Acrylic Urethane Surfacer,
DAS3025 V-SEAL Acrylic Urethane Sealer-Gray and DBC
2000 Basecoat, along with VIBRANCE COLLECTION
VP2100 Primer and GLOBAL REFINISH SYSTEM D8152
Performance + Glamour Clearcoat.
Alan Johnson, who has been using PPG products in
Johnson’s Hot Rod Shop in Gadsden, Alabama, since 1995,
came to the show with a 1953 Studebaker he built for Paul and
Betty Gilliam. Johnson and painter Greg Chalcraft used PPG’s
Deltron DBC9700 Basecoat, Global Refinish System D8152
Performance + Glamour Clearcoat, D8115 Matte Clearcoat
and D8117 Semi-Gloss Clearcoat to give the Studie its distinc-
tive and rich black finish – a paint scheme that helped the car
win the event’s Best Street Cruiser award.CW
PPG-painted Cars and
Trucks Shine at Shades of the Past
