I've been thinking of painting my car white. You just don't seem to see alot of customs painted white. Anyone got some pics? White seems to hide flaws pretty well (although it is no and excuse for shoddy body work). Todd
i think the reason you dont see many white customs, is as well as hiding flaws, it hides the body lines and curves as well. most people who build a full custom want to eccentuate them, hence the use of dark metallics and satin pearls, which accentuate curves with the way the light plays off the paint
Off white (or whatever you call it) looks great on about anything. True white can make a beautiful car look really bland and kill body details. Someone posted a pic on here of a five window coupe painted off white with black and cream pinstriping. It was absolutley beautiful.
A white car to me just doesn't look painted. I know that sounds odd, but it's like a sheet of white paper, it needs something on it.
I think someone is half right. White hides a lot of the body lines, but with a slab sided car like a Ford ****box, tri year GM cars and various others, white looks fine. I'm painting my Pontiac white until I get the money to do Candy on it......tired of black black black.
Here's a photoshop of kinda of where I'm heading. I know the red rim thing is overdone but it looks nice. Maybee a ddeper shade of red??
Here are a couple of Lucy the Chrysler: Like Brandy sez, white works well with slab-sided cars and a little bit of accent work to 'lift' features here and there.
I've been thinking of doing our's in that pearly white you see on modern Cadillac's. It looks sort of gold in some light and kind of silvery in others. When I first read this post I immediatly thought of the Moonglow, and I always liked the look of the Quesnel merc in white primer.
If you're goin' for a late '50's custom look, the top looks good painted the color of the scallops. That's what Lucy has; it seems to work well.
Another thing to keep in mind, if you have welded up all the joints in the body and rounded every corner, light colors will show this work better. If you haven't molded and rounded everything, a dark color will hide all those gaps, seams, and sharp corners. It's also good to hide those gaps if they are made from panels that aren't lined up.
It hides waves in the sheetmetal, but it really makes uneven gaps ( door/ trunk/ hood...) stick out. So a light color might not help that much...
the black and gold looks good, what about a black and gun metal grey instead of gold? or a deep silver magnesium color? keep it sinister.
Here's a pic of my '64 Olds. It's bagged but still needs wheels and a few other little things. I like white on the Kennedy era Lincolns and some 60's and 70's Cadillacs too. I don't think I'd want an all white 50's car. And I agree with Metalshapes about hiding waviness somewhat but makes door gaps and misaligned panels stick out like a ***** in sweatpants.
There's 2 Caddy late model whites, one was called "White Lightning", I forget what the other was called.... We're doing the 50 Suburban in Ford Wimbledon white, which is similar to the Chrysler creamy white I see on some of their newer stuff. I work at the U of A where we have thousands of white trucks and cars! I've seen enough Utility White to choke a horse!
Even though I like white on some cars the first thing I think of when I see one is hidden bondo and bad body work
Old post , but could not find anything newer. Any more picks out there. Does anybody know of a white that as a alittle blue in it? Kustom shop sells a white called linen and artic white? If you painted your ride White which white would it be?
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