After channeling and roughing in the body, Woolery delivered it
to Dick, who turned it over to Shawn Harvey, thus initiating the
slippery slope of excess. "We told him to get the car nice
enough so it would look good in flat black," Woolery says. "Well
the instant it was in filler primer, Dick started seeing little
things here and there." Though Woolery held his ground on an
economical finish, "I just couldn't do it," Dick says. Woolery
recused himself. "At that point it was at Dick's house so it was
out of my control."  Then detailer Jason Kilmer dropped by. "So
he sees it and starts putting his two cents in," Woolery says,
groaning. "The whole time I've been arguing to not paint the car
but Dick just couldn't leave it alone. He had to paint it."  But
what color? Resigned to the idea of shiny paint, Woolery took
Dick color shopping. "We were looking for something that came
out in that (early '60s) period," Dick says. Then it struck
them.  General Motors called one of the colors applied to the
'59 Pontiac Roy