Paint?????
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From: Grosse Ile MI
Originally Posted by Paintbug
Repainting 66 back to orginal color. (Milano Maroon). Can someone tell me if the orginal color was a metalic? 
Here is a real close up of a 66 Milano taken with a flash. Note the small metallic reflections in the paint.
66 milano Close-Up
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From: Jersey Shore Exit 98
Originally Posted by stingrayl76
Here is a real close up of a 66 Milano taken with a flash. Note the small metallic reflections in the paint.
66 milano Close-Up
66 milano Close-Up
That's not Milano too red. My 66 is milano and its original paint and there is NO metal flake in the paint. Get the number off the vin and order the correct paint. This isn't a good shot of the car but this is the correct color for a 66 milano. She's in the shop right now getting suspension work & new gold line diamond backs.
Last edited by Jims79; Mar 23, 2006 at 11:33 AM.
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From: Grosse Ile MI
This is a Vette I looked at a couple of weeks ago for a friend. Not the original paint. The color looks very different in different lighting. Here are two shots of the same car with and without a flash. But your right. Get the paint code and go with that.
With Flash
Without Flash
With Flash
Without Flash
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From: Jersey Shore Exit 98
Originally Posted by stingrayl76
This is a Vette I looked at a couple of weeks ago for a friend. Not the original paint. The color looks very different in different lighting. Here are two shots of the same car with and without a flash. But your right. Get the paint code and go with that.
With Flash
Without Flash
With Flash
Without Flash
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From: Grosse Ile MI
Originally Posted by Jims79
Wow that's a difference all right. w/out flash that is the color of my 66 but I still don't see any metal flake in my factory paint. Maybe that's why w/the flash the car you shot looks red?
Yep, it looks more like Marlboro when the flash hits it.
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From: Indiana
Originally Posted by Jims79
That's not Milano too red. My 66 is milano and its original paint and there is NO metal flake in the paint. Get the number off the vin and order the correct paint. This isn't a good shot of the car but this is the correct color for a 66 milano. She's in the shop right now getting suspension work & new gold line diamond backs.
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From: Jersey Shore Exit 98
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My original paint hard top has metalic
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...um_id=4&arch=1
good thread discussing Milano Maroon.........
(a color that is severly distorded by high intesity lighting in Cobo Hall ...if I had a nickle for every guy who told me my car was too brownish)
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...um_id=4&arch=1
good thread discussing Milano Maroon.........
(a color that is severly distorded by high intesity lighting in Cobo Hall ...if I had a nickle for every guy who told me my car was too brownish)
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From: Grosse Ile MI
Originally Posted by Donny Brass
My original paint hard top has metalic
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...um_id=4&arch=1
good thread discussing Milano Maroon.........
(a color that is severly distorded by high intesity lighting in Cobo Hall ...if I had a nickle for every guy who told me my car was too brownish)
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...um_id=4&arch=1
good thread discussing Milano Maroon.........
(a color that is severly distorded by high intesity lighting in Cobo Hall ...if I had a nickle for every guy who told me my car was too brownish)
Is that your brown '66 with the white stinger????
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Originally Posted by stingrayl76
Donny,
Is that your brown '66 with the white stinger????
Is that your brown '66 with the white stinger????
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From: Newark DE
Jim
I just got my '65 Milano Maroon painted last year and it definitely is suppose to be a metallic paint although the level of metallic in it is small and the size of the flakes are very small. That's one of the issues in trying to match up the new paints with the old colors, the metallic flakes are larger so it's a compromise. Even the old lacquer we stripped off had metallic in it and my painter has been specializing in painting older vettes for 30 years and has done a large number of Milano Maroon cars during that time and he confirmed it was suppose to be metallic as I had the same question when I first decided to get the car repainted
I just got my '65 Milano Maroon painted last year and it definitely is suppose to be a metallic paint although the level of metallic in it is small and the size of the flakes are very small. That's one of the issues in trying to match up the new paints with the old colors, the metallic flakes are larger so it's a compromise. Even the old lacquer we stripped off had metallic in it and my painter has been specializing in painting older vettes for 30 years and has done a large number of Milano Maroon cars during that time and he confirmed it was suppose to be metallic as I had the same question when I first decided to get the car repainted
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From: Jersey Shore Exit 98
Originally Posted by BarryK
Jim
I just got my '65 Milano Maroon painted last year and it definitely is suppose to be a metallic paint although the level of metallic in it is small and the size of the flakes are very small. That's one of the issues in trying to match up the new paints with the old colors, the metallic flakes are larger so it's a compromise. Even the old lacquer we stripped off had metallic in it and my painter has been specializing in painting older vettes for 30 years and has done a large number of Milano Maroon cars during that time and he confirmed it was suppose to be metallic as I had the same question when I first decided to get the car repainted
I just got my '65 Milano Maroon painted last year and it definitely is suppose to be a metallic paint although the level of metallic in it is small and the size of the flakes are very small. That's one of the issues in trying to match up the new paints with the old colors, the metallic flakes are larger so it's a compromise. Even the old lacquer we stripped off had metallic in it and my painter has been specializing in painting older vettes for 30 years and has done a large number of Milano Maroon cars during that time and he confirmed it was suppose to be metallic as I had the same question when I first decided to get the car repainted
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