I mentioned in a thread before that i will get rid of that black and change the colour to some kind of grey.So i drove to the body/paintshop today. I arrived early, and spent the time looking at all them fancy cars, like a c6 'vette, a maserati merak, some imports (Fast and Furious style) and a orange-metallic Audi RS4 with styling and performance upgrades i have never seen before (total value of car 190+ grand......) beautiful, but not mean.
At that moment i changed my mind. I mean, having a black painted car, which is a third gen convertible (which is the most painful way to own a 82-92 f-body, vert owners know what i am talking about) can drive you nuts. BUT, black just looks mean. You don't get that with yellow ,white or blue, like it or not.
Take a look at the movies. Look at the color of the bad boys' rides, their girlfriends may drive candy apple red cars, but the mean guys always have black ones.
Leaving the car black doesn't make me become the Daywalker or Alonzo Harris of course, but hell, when i see a cool car, i admire the car itself and not the owner.

 

so that means your not changing the color. thank the lord, there is no way the car would look near as good in gray

 

glad you decided to keep it black....looks real good

 

I agreed with you until this point

 

i wont ever own a car that isnt black again.

 

I won't ever own a black car again After having two of them........they are too much a pain in the *** to keep looking good. Been there, don't wanna go back. BUT, black cars do look sweet when they are kept up right, I'll give you that

 

even if it is only for that first 5 minutes after you wash it, it looks awsome.

 

Yeah good decision on keeping it black. Its a pain to keep them clean but they look damn good. Black 3rd gens rule

 

All i got to say its lots and lots of quik detailer But ya black is the mean color

 

Keeping clean is only part of the hassle....the bigger part is keeping them swirl free. That's were you really have to know what you are doing.

 

Dont ever wax it then you wont have swirls

 

i dont know what all these black car owners are having such a hard time with.. my car looks great for a long time after washing it.

 

lol!

 

So when are you going to sell me that black vert? Seriously.

 

everything i own is for sell, when the price is right. But since i live in europe and you don't, this deal will probably never take place......

 

Glad you decided to keep it black... I think it looks so perfect the way it is. If I bought another thirdgen, I'd go with black again if it wasn't going to be a daily driver. When I was looking for a new daily, I wanted silver since its quite easy to keep looking clean. But I wound up with another dark color (midnight blue) but I'm happy anyway.

I do regret buying a black toolbox, however. Never again will I do that

 

once you go black you never turn back

 

^ ahhahaha , thats great . What about doing a two tone on the car graboid, if you dont wanna get rid of the back , maybe like a silver and black or red and black or something?

 

no no, the only thing that i would consider is burgundy flat (non glossing , sorry for the english). No two tone. Anyway, today was a sunny day and all i saw was swirls....

 

have someone teach you how to buff!!

 

Reminds me of an old guy i saw in the mall walking around one time...He had a black hat on that said... "Nice guys wear white hats". Black is beautiful