painting car, looking for ideas
This past weekend I removed the engine and transmission and I'm going to start getting the car ready for paint. The car is red but I'm not a huge fan of red Miatas. Instead of painting the whole car another color i was thinking of doing a 2 tone. Maybe a black hardtop, hood, and around the windshield. Another idea I had was to try and find a slightly darker shade of red. At least the door jams and trunk would not look too out of place. Anyway I'm open to ideas. What would you do?
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Keep it as close to the original color as possible. Otherwise it will look like a shitbox and the resale value will not be worth a fuck.
But, that's just my opinion on it. Whatever you do, use a BC/CC system on it. Base Coat/Clear Coat. Deeper in color and richness. Also doesn't fade and get chaulky. |
I saw a dark red/burgundy NA. It was a really striking color for the car. I don't care for teh tomato red either.
No reason why you couldn't do both. A darker red with black stripes or a black 2-tone would look great. If 2-tone, I'd do a flat or satin black myself. |
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It's a Grassroots Motorsports project. I'm going for cheap, shiny, somewhat interesting, and not pink! I should have mentioned that first, sorry.
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get a candy apple red... or maybe a sunburst (red and orange mix)
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Hell, for a quick cheap GRM car paint job, I'd prep it myself and take it to Maaco. Then spend some time wet-sending, buffing, and polishing.
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polish, wash, wax.... good as new.
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there is a guy here in the akron area with a blaze red miata. it is so blazing red it makes your eyes water. looks tits, if you like red
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I've always wanted to paint a car with that chalk board paint...and draw on it.
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yeah, you can probably buff all of that out.
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My thought is this.. paint it a color that isn't OEM miata. Honestly I'm not a fan of the OEM miata colors. I think flat black is a cool color..and very easy to do. I plan on painting mine toyota "Speedway Blue" next year.
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I'd roller paint it "fire" red. and put a big miataturbo.net sticker down the side.
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Anything but BRG. Spicy orange would be cool.
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Originally Posted by hustler
(Post 111924)
I've always wanted to paint a car with that chalk board paint...and draw on it.
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Originally Posted by jayc72
(Post 111949)
Anything but BRG. Spicy orange would be cool.
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go candy apple red over a fine gunmetal flake. like a deep black cherry.
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^ Now that would be sweet
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But not so cheap :)
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Originally Posted by hustler
(Post 111963)
yeah, that's why I added pearl to mine. Green sucks, but I didn't care to spend the money or deal with the pain in the ass of painting it another color.
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