I am planning on painting my Bird in the near future, so i figured i'd get some opinions. Post pics please! I'm looking at red, black, white, or a charcoal color.. maybe..

Yellow

Yours looks great.

I like everything in black, lol. Its just hard to keep black looking great. A gunmetal gray would look good too.

Mine is also an 87 Formula. The body work was finished a week ago. I went with a dark blue. The pictures suck and I have to do some clean up from where the shop did the sand and buff but it's a really nice blue in person and at night it's real dark. I don't recall the paint code but I was going to call the shop later and get it from them.

http://www.thirdgen.org/techboard/album.php?albumid=641

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Mine's not an 87, and it's red, so my obvious choice should be red lol, but I think yellow looks sick on the 87-90 Formulas like Mike_Cs. That would be my personal choice. That or red lol

I'm not looking at a very expensive job, but my car already is red so that would be the easiest..

but I'm really starting to like black :/

Well my T/A is red but im actually a huge fan of the Maui Blue. I saw a really nice Formula in that color at a show and just fell in love.

Go White!

I wish the one I posted was mine... I just think that yellow looks great on the 87-90 Formulas.

Its hard to get a good idea of mine will look like because i am going to do a solid color, and all the pics have had more details.

Go with a drab green color. I photoshopped this, but it can be matched.

I appreciate the input.. but that's a for sure nooo...

A Formula with a 2.8, I thought all formulas came with a V8. The 87 was the LG4, last year you could get carbed version.

Charcoal, hands down.

I thought it would look pretty cool. I was going to do it to my 92




Electric Blue pearlcoat


gunmetal gray

I paid 1900 for my paint job.

I agree with Mike C

Yes we all know what the differences in formula's are. Your on a thirdgen site. lol

I said formula because its the most identical to my car thus giving me the best idea of what will look good.

And thanks to you guys who had input. I'm actually liking that gunmetal gray color on the mazda.
and the Electric Blue pearlcoat!

That really reminds me of the color they put on the R34 Skylines.. This pic definitely gives me a better idea of how it would look tho. Thnx

go red! i got this paint job back in early may 2009.. i got a deal b/c i knew the painter, but it really makes the birds stand out in a crowd! it makes it POP!

Thats EXACTLY the red i was picturing. I figure i could do just a respray because my car already is red. And just the exterior has faded over time. So its the easiest option

Is that just GM bright red?

Btw: Be careful, some people may notice that's not a Trans-am.

hey i say a gunmetal gray, dark gray, black, or red. expecially with the darker colors i would say defintly get red hood stripes or with red go for blk stripes. good luck

Ya man. I'm really thinkin of red with some Black trim and tint the lights and windows.

You have the odd rubber things on the bumpers, so go with black to hide them. or gunmetal might make the black a nice accent.....

I plan on doing the Trans-am GFX or filling in those weird bumper things.

yes that is the GM bright red.. and the gfx were installed before i got the car lol

White! But I'm biased =)

black like mine!!

I like black birds.
Heres a pic of my 92

gunmetal

I found this thread today, as I'm researching what color code of yellow to paint mine I just got last week.
The maui blue is nice that it has, but it's needing repaint.

I like the formula's in yellow, only a few cars look good in yellow to me and this is one.

But it looks good in quite a few colors. My son did recommend the olive green,..with camo yesterday. So I guess there are a few who like that idea. A pickup maybe, but a firebird?

I'm trying to see what the original color is, sundance yellow is what I'm coming up with. But in some pictures it seems to look a little "faded" as original. Like the picture in this thread. I want something more yellow. If someone has an idea what yellow color looks good, but not silly in yellow paint codes please let us know. I want mine to look the same shade of yellow like in this ad. So which shade is more correct in person, like other one in this thread or this one?

I like your paint scheme, and want to ask about the red stripe. How did you do that? painted or graphics? Do you know the paint code or graphic source?

I think you will be happiest going with the original shade of red.

If you want attention you could do like this firebird owner and put a firetruck hood ornament on it:


http://calfire.blogspot.com/2009/06/...weet-1969.html

Honda makes a Green Tea Metallic colour its found on the new CRV's. Nice colour if you'relooking for green.

My choice would be the gunmetal gray......or Green Tea.

That color is Yellow Gold, #51

Go with Black pr the Flame Red.

RED is always SEXY!!!

Here Ya go,

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Specifically, here's the link to the stripe kit:
http://www.phoenixgraphix.com/transam/8790fstp.htm

Totaly agree. IMO the two nicest colours 'birds came in.

This is an O L D thread, but I will add some input here...

Red is the most overused color on ANY sports car/coupe, period. It's boring. Especially since my family would have had 3 red cars (93 Cavalier and 00 Grand Prix in Bright Red) if my Bird had fully been dressed in it's original Flame Red (was 2/3 primer when bought... Found out why last year ).

I know that in my rebuild thread I said I was going with a Charcoal metallic... Found out there is no such animal and the paint color I was referring to is Carbon Flash Metallic. Going black on black here with Flame Red Metallic (IIRC, have to double check) stripes down the side and red trim inside.