Colors that jump out at you??

You too??...

 

Still want to know these color codes:

Borrowed from KIRK and compliments of Goodguys

 

One of the 60's colors I really like is the GM Butternut Yellow.

 

This is a sample of the color scheme I will be using on my 61 F-100. House of Kolor candy colors. The flames aren't to scale or anything...just to show the scheme and example of the colors. Will have flames tho

 

how would metallic orange look on a 1950 merc?

 

maybe orange and white? my brother in law had an old olds that was orange and white...it looked very cool

found a 50 merc and recolored it...

 

I really like the Ford dark and light blue colors . Silver and white make a good two tone color as well . Also like a two tone Red & white , dark blue and gray/silver . A good copper color on certain cars/trucks .
I guess a good two tone paint job does it good for me .

Retro Jim

 

Plum crazy, b5 blue, Sublime, and panther pink are some of my favorites. I also like a nice rootbeer. A nice dark green, and black two tone does it for me as well.

 

i think you should try photoshop it w/ the bmw color i posted on page 2. i think it would work verywell.

 

MANY newer cars have really great colors. Problem is, they're attached to such boring cars, we don't notice

 

This is how I found the Accent color. Seen it and had to chase it to find out what the hell the car was so I could get the paint code. I was thinking of trying to pulling the girl over and asking her could I see the inside of her door.lol That would of went over well!! Figure I better just wait and look it up at my paint supplier.

 

I really like the color on my wife's Cadillac DTS ...
My brother even has the same color on his Cadillac XLR

But I always end up painting my stuff that NEW COLOR

BLACK

 

tcglobal carries "chrome" paint like the one shown on the Merc. They have a number of different colors. Reminds of some ot the toy cars I used to play with that were painted with "chrome" color.

 

My favorite color is Ford's "Peacock Blue" from 1956.



-Cody

 

That dark blue is awesome!!! I'm thinking that dark blue in satin with Cadillac gold for the motor and black spoke wheels..

 

Yea, x2.

 

How about tu tone paint jobs???

 

I am always looking at the colors on new cars, the problem is, they all look so much alike, I cant id most of them unless I get close enough to read the emblems. Goddam things all look the same to me. I'd be willing to bet there was some geeser in a deuce 5-window saying the same thing in '66. "yea, I saw this GREAT yellow on a chevelle the other day...well I think it was a chevelle, these damn new cars all look alike to me".

 

The '94 - '96 Ford/Lincoln Rose Mist Metallic/Red Nightmist is a great color!

Looks like a candy pink from one direction, and purple from another. Holographic flake, and lots of pearl. It's awesone, and impossible to photograph!



~Jason

 

Black.

 

PPG Skylight Blue,

 

Bright orange is a great hot rod color:

 

With pink interior

 

I'm partial to this blue.

 

The colors that always jump out at me are the kind of colors that at first, don't jump out at all. I like the colors that seem obvious at first, but as you look closer you begin to realize that the color is much more complex than you might think at first. 10+ years ago Saturn had a color that looked black in low light, greenish in the bright sun and brownish on a cloudy day or parked inside-very much like a raw umber color...that would look great instead of plain ol black on a custom or fat-fendered car....On the previous Honda Fit, their black was actually a very dark blue and it had the tiniest metalflake in it you ever saw...you only saw the metalflake on the edges of the body parts or if you looked real close in the bright sun. That kind of subtlety and surprise is what I like in a color...

 

And isn't color the most critical and sometimes the most difficult choice one can make in their build? I'm a big fan of green and it seems to be getting too popular in the last 3-4yrs. To that end, once the choice is made, it has to be spectacular in application and shade or it's just another red/yellow/black/green hotrod. Different always gets attention be it good or bad. "Correct" is another parameter many of us try to hit and that makes the latest crop of factory tricoat and pearl colors a tough choice. The new Camaro green is gaining momentum and will probably fade away as fast as "true fire" did. Many ply it safe and stick with basics and standards. I did see a copperish color on a newer Mopar of some kind that reminded me of the shades from the 60s muscle cars like Chargers and Coronets. They do pop and hit you just right at times. In an effort to keep it real the base layers can be tampered with to get it just right. I've settled on a version of 61 Chevrolet "Jubilee Blue Metallic" for the bubbletop. I have my own methods of madness to make it stand out as unique once done and be able to repair it if needed, something else that one should consider in their choice. The 1st example from the OP, well, I said I like green and I know that color. It really needs light to be exciting, but I was turned on to Honda "Leaf Green" several years ago. Similar, but more intense and easy to repair.

 

Butternut... Sorry, Its my "non hamb car"

Color is a tough choice.. I have my deuce almost ready for paint and I cant make my mind up... Dont want metallic or a dark color.. Thinkin off white? Im sick of thinking about it..

I really like the hot rod black look but there are 500 at every show now, on 30's to 80's cars.. But I still like the look.. Especially on on a truck.. on a magazine cover.. for a tire company... With green wheels..

 

Yep! Sure, why not???

 

Here's one..... I guess red looks good on everything...