Matt black but what about the details?

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Matt black but what about the details?

Post by SteveJB » Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:52 pm

After working on the car we decided to have a laugh and get rattle cans out and see what the car might look like with different colours.

When the car is rebuilt it will be matt black - budget will be spent on mechanical parts rather than expensive respray & a mate has offered to do the respray but he only does one colour.

The question is, if the car is black, what details and colours do people think look best (with eventually selling the car in the future in mind). Considering having the grills a different colour, stainless steel towing mount, new shiny exhaust. Ideas include:

Red?
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Yellow?
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Or something else?

Any ideas welcome

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Re: Matt black but what about the details?

Post by pshanks76 » Wed Sep 02, 2015 10:31 pm

Matt black with gloss black details for stealth. 8)
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Re: Matt black but what about the details?

Post by SteveJB » Thu Sep 03, 2015 7:37 am

Like it.cheers

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Re: Matt black but what about the details?

Post by campbell » Thu Sep 03, 2015 8:49 am

Orange or scandal green details
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Re: Matt black but what about the details?

Post by r10crw » Thu Sep 03, 2015 10:37 am

Its the obvious one but what about Gold?
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Post by Dominic » Thu Sep 03, 2015 10:33 pm

Gold with a couple of red bits..... 8)
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Post by pete » Sat Sep 05, 2015 7:40 am

Just gold or shiny black.

The red and yellow were good ideas but look rubbish. I suspect Scandal green (and I love scandal green) would be the same.
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Re: Matt black but what about the details?

Post by Stewart » Sat Sep 05, 2015 8:52 am

pete wrote:Just gold or shiny black.

The red and yellow were good ideas but look rubbish. I suspect Scandal green (and I love scandal green) would be the same.
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Re: Matt black but what about the details?

Post by Ferg » Tue Sep 08, 2015 6:46 pm

Is this just going to be a Plasdip type finish? If so how about doing one of the coloured Matt colours. They look very cool. :-)

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Re: Matt black but what about the details?

Post by SteveJB » Tue Sep 08, 2015 9:29 pm

Still deciding on what to use. I'll take a look at Plasdip and see.cheers

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Post by Ferg » Wed Sep 09, 2015 4:38 pm

This is the sort of effect i was talking about. But this is wrap.

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Post by pete » Wed Sep 09, 2015 7:11 pm

SteveJB wrote:Still deciding on what to use. I'll take a look at Plasdip and see.cheers
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Post by Sanjøy » Wed Sep 09, 2015 7:54 pm

Ferg wrote:This is the sort of effect i was talking about. But this is wrap.

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