What color do I paint my car?

[Johnny]

At first I thought ohhh, who the hell painted it that color? Then it grew on me.
Thought I should leave it be, because that is the factory color...the "Barbie" car.
And I would have left it that way but I can see with the new photos it was
prepared to get painted and never was.
Do I keep it the same? (add a Mattel logo?)
Do I do the same theme but in red white and blue?
Completely new color?

I was thinking white again but then use vinyl colors to make it what I want.
That way I can change it at times to something else.

[Captain Chaos]

How about having it wrapped? It would keep the original paint in tact without having to explain why it was painted that way.

[Vigo]

Honestly, i would repaint it. The one that Mike Magree bought looks great in that blue! Im not suggesting copying, but the difference in looks between a 'normal' paint scheme, and the silly paint on your car, would be enough to motivate me to repaint it!

Do you want a 'fancy' color like what they put on supercars these days? Some of that paint is fairly expensive to buy but there are a lot of paint colors on 'super cars' that you dont see on anything else and it does add to the panache...

The wrap option seems decent as well, depending on what you wanted color wise. You're not going to get fancy, deep, pearlescent color or any of that with a vinyl wrap.



Here's some stuff to get started narrowing it down..

http://ferrari-collection.net/color/
http://rogerschryslerjeepdodge.com/c...er&make=dodge#
http://www.autogespot.com/all-colour...ntador-lp700-4
http://www.lambocars.com/pnt/lamborg...int_codes.html
http://gtcarlot.com/colors/Lamborghini/

I have weird taste but im loving this color:
http://files.autogespot.info/autoges...12201007_1.jpg

[Captain Chaos]

Its amazing what they can do with wraps. Heres a shop in town:
http://paintisdead.com/

[Johnny]

But a wrap costs as much as a paint job.

[Captain Chaos]

But needs very little prep and never needs waxing.

[Johnny]

I saw the Orange Lambo...that looks kind of hot.

[Captain Chaos]

They've varnon finer wrapped a Lambo, chrome wrapped an R8 and the owner of Identity Design has his Fiatsler wrapped like it was tagged in the ghetto.

[Johnny]

Just playing around.

[bakes]

I have 4 combo's
1. 1987 Plymouth midnight blue for the trim and silver for the main body or you can revs them
2. satin black for trim and sub lime hemi green for the main body
3. 91 electric blue
4 copper ( you choose the age of the copper look ) and satin black trim

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http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8511/8484647306_3b3c13f543_h.jpg

[Johnny]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8511/8...3c13f543_h.jpg

Not thinking the copper would look good on my car. Sure looks good on that car! And saw it on a mini van, that looked good.
The blu car in the background...I like that.

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I know everyone will have a different answer or idea...that's great, thank you.
Gives me something, a variety to think about.

[bill2]

Plum crazy consulier!

[Rrider]

That white/blue looks pretty good.

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I'm not a big fan of bright red, but I think it works on these.

[turismolover22]

Red with black underside. Cause everyone just wants to be that turbo z in the wraith

[Johnny]

Red looks real good, but also cop attention getter.

[CoolV300C]

Gold, and wood grain. Matches the door handles.

[Vigo]

Plum crazy consulier!

If you're going to put Plum Crazy on it you would have to also get some of those 5x4 bolt pattern mopar rallye wheel replicas too!

[Johnny]

I love purple...but not on my car. I'd like it to be different but also like a factory could have done it.
Dont want it to look like a kit car. Well as much as possible anyway. This is tough.

[85boostbox]

Can never go wrong with a silver and black. Or even a black body with a blue bottom...

[Rrider]

White/blue, white/black, red/black, or just red. I agree it would look kittish in green, copper, or purple or something like that. The red looks really good from what I saw from the targa on ebay.

These things have enough weirdness without a weird color!