PhLaXuS

Ok...here's a pic of my wierd-*** paint job as it is right now. Last year, the car was rusting through so I took it down to bare metal, fixed any problems and then laid down 2 or 3 coats of rustoleum primer and then a load of black spray just to stop it from rusting. I'm planning on a real paint job in the (hopefully) near future and I'm just throwing this out to see what people think. Notice that I still need the door GFX pieces. I want to shave the door handles and maybe remove that little plastic "ding strip" running down the doors. How many people are horrified by the color scheme? This truly is a project car. I bought it off of a friend for $1.

Any thoughts on if I should keep the color scheme?

firebirdjosh

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One of the ugliest maros I've ever seen.

vrtc350

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Either match the car to the gfx or the gfx to the car. Or get you a whole new color.

Firebreed

ya know, if you just paint the mirrors black, it just might look a lot better, or better yet, paint the car red and the gfx black

Xophertony

i dont like it. i think all black would look better.

Angelis83LT

yea. paint the mirrors black and do a wrap around red stip to connect the spoiler to the gfx so it is a constant line and it may not look to bad

dr1

if you make the gfx a darker shade of red, and the rest of the car black it would look good

Firebreed

or paint the plastic door things on the side of the doors red

PhLaXuS

Originally, I wanted to go all black, but since I had to paint the car anyway, I decided to do a color test. Yeah...I was thinking the mirrors were too much as well. Angelis83LT, what do you mean by "wrap around red stip to connect the spoiler to the gfx"? Do you mean extend the angle of the spoiler down until it hits the bottom?

Well, well, well...this is by far the fastest I've ever had this many replies in such a short time. Controversy sells!

Firebreed

or people who are bored looking for a post to post on too i think he means something like a 4th gen spoiler for the car painted red.

XJOSHX

I don't wanna sound like a jerk, but I dislike it a lot. Looks like you have a black car and baught a red parts car and didn't get around to paint the parts.

PhLaXuS

No, it's cool. It would be a bad thing to not say anything. I'm asking for opinions before I pay a few grand for a real paint job. When I got the car, it had no GFX. I collected them (all except the door pieces now) and painted them red just as a color test. I had no clue what it would look like until I was finished.

I was also considering a fade from black to red. How about that? And yes, a maroon color would probably come out better.

Angelis83LT

What i meant was to basically extend the red color down the back quarters from your spolier to the gfx. that way it makes a solid line all the way around the car

89_ho_rs

I would look into some different colors or color schemes. IMO that red is too bright next to the black. maybe a few different colors would help. I found my colors on here


http://www.autocolorlibrary.com

it has every ppg paint code in it.

KEVIN G.

I don't know guys... I don't totally dislike it, and I see the potential.
Of course I remember the mid eighties, where that was commonplace on thirdgens.... (The two-tone ground effects.)I think you're just used to seeing the ones with the door ground effects on them... that's throwin' everyone off.
I see a matching stripe breaking it up just before the bottom/just before the ground effects . Maybe even a multi line like what originally came on my 84.
In any case the car looks in good condition and well worth the buck he paid for it. Take it easy.

89_ho_rs

no I agree great car great price. I just think another paint color. just my opinion

Scheister

i think itd look better with a darker red, pain the mirrors and side moldings, and paint that strip on the rear panels connecting the spoiler to the ground fxs

1992rs/ss

it reminds me of the black and red van the A-TEAM drove around in.

Psycho_91Camaro

I was going to do the exact same thing but my car is not a 50s hot rod

so I primered it all black to make it look like the batman car

PhLaXuS

Very cool! I really like the flat black look. No one does that any more.

Psycho_91Camaro

This would look cool if I did it??

EvilCartman

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They don't? Car in forground is flat black So is his tow rig, 74 Blazer aka the war wagon. Seen a handfull of flat black cars running around but no 3rdgens. The project car my friend and I are doing is going to be painted the same way.

vrtc350

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I'm sure you could make it work with a black body and red gfx. Right now, IMO the red clashes real bad with the black and doesn't flow. I'm sure if you played with it in photoshop you could figure something out to tie it all together.

What would be cool is if you match the ground effect to the rest of the car and put a red hockey stick stripe down the side.

Difflock

You forgot to paint the door handles red

PhLaXuS

How would it look if:
1.) The red door trim were removed
2.) The mirrors black
3.) The spoiler & ground effects really dark maroon (kind of a black base with maroon over it)
4.) The black body were faded into the dark maroon?

ZROLimitRacing

HAHAHAHA OMG that was great!!!

Well PhLaXuS IMHO I think that it looks like you got drunk, painted some of it and passed out. Oh and BTW I think that you forgot the door handles.

PhLaXuS

WooHoo! I'm a rolling dRuNk!?

ZROLimitRacing

Well typically all drunks have a lack of balance and don't remember what they do so don't feel too bad....well maybe just a little.

montesa311

my 2 pennies.... tone down the red a little, and add some classic racing stripes... loose the random red accicents.. and it would look sweet

maroon88iroc

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Psycho_91Camaro is your car painted with DP90? if not what paint did you use?

PhLaXuS

So if I gave the entire car ~3 coats of black and then overlayed one coat of a maroon over the GFX...something like that? I'm very much considering removing the door trim and the mirrors will be black. Should the spoiler get the maroon overlay or stay solid black? After all this is finished, I plan on possibly laying my own version of a heritage stripe: I want to run a tribal pattern that's maybe 10" wide from the front bumper all the way to the rear bumper; offset to the right to about where the passenger's head would be. What color would look right there? If the entire car is black and the GFX are only somewhat distinguishable as maroon, what color should the tribal stripe be?

92RS(real slow)

paint it all flat black will look real sick, and will stand out more than falshy painted cars. My will be all flat black someday when I get the time I've been saying that for 2 years now

PhLaXuS

I love the look of flat black, but I don't know if it is more prone to environmental damage than a glossy paint. Anyone?

Camaroguy18

what's the deal with the scoops?

Demon355

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Rediculous arn't they? lol...


On Topic...

I think it would look good painted black yes, but with a duller or maroonish red gfx. Or paint it all black...black works.