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Old May 19, 2008 | 04:46 AM
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Someone please photshop this, you'll be my hero. I want to see what my car would like like in metallic black, or meteorite silver. I'm going to paint it soon and I can't decide! Give me opinions too.




Here's Meteorite Silver. It's an Aston Martin color.



...or Metallic black, this is called Onyx black metallic. Another Aston Martin color.

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Old May 19, 2008 | 08:43 AM
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Just a suggestion, look at current GM/vette paints and save yourself some money. I still get sh#t about using a chrysler color
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Old May 19, 2008 | 08:50 AM
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No Matter How Hard I Look At That Picture I Still Cant Find A Car !! Lmao !!
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Old May 19, 2008 | 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by 73-84 IMSA Widebody
Just a suggestion, look at current GM/vette paints and save yourself some money. I still get sh#t about using a chrysler color

I'll be using a Chrysler code black when I repaint my Vette. I like theirs best so far.
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Old May 19, 2008 | 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by 73-84 IMSA Widebody
Just a suggestion, look at current GM/vette paints and save yourself some money. I still get sh#t about using a chrysler color
Anyone that paints there Corvette with a Chrysler color should get lots of .............






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Old May 19, 2008 | 09:15 AM
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DB already gets a lot of SH#$ what is a little more! It's your car paint it what you want.
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Old May 19, 2008 | 10:25 AM
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i painted mine seafoam green with blue pearl.....hahahaha

i would go with silver...if you are keeping the rims
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Old May 19, 2008 | 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by NIGHTMARE73
No Matter How Hard I Look At That Picture I Still Cant Find A Car !! Lmao !!
Those litle white circles are the meteorites, right?
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Originally Posted by 73-84 IMSA Widebody
Just a suggestion, look at current GM/vette paints and save yourself some money. I still get sh#t about using a chrysler color
I really could care less. The current color is a Honda color. I'll paint the vette purple with pink poka dots if I feel like it. And while I'm at it I'll install a rotary engine.

BTW, my engine was painted Ford blue, and my seats are from a Toyota. It's already a franken car. But it's faster than a C6 Z06, so few people are willing to give me sh*t.


7 replies and no photoshops! Someone step in and help me!!! Please.
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you probably need a better pic thats brighter....that pic seems too dark to separate the colors...... might be done...but a better pic might help...

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Originally Posted by onaqwst
you probably need a better pic thats brighter....that pic seems too dark to separate the colors...... might be done...but a better pic might help...

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TTT, is that any better? Kinda blurry, I'll keep looking.
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Old May 19, 2008 | 04:01 PM
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hey man, I'll try to do it for you when I get home...(i'm at work right now). So it will be kinda late before I get home/eat/do things and photoshop this but there's gonna be 2 things to consider. one is that there's probably no way I can duplicate the exact colors of those DB9's but I can at least get a nice dark gray and black for you. The other thing is that it's very hard to get the black to be "shiny glossy black unless the car you're using is already dark shiny blue or maroon or dark in general. You just tend to lose a lot of detail and it become's a siloheutte(spelling?)... so I have a feeling based on previous work that it may come off a little bit "matte" black. I'll do my best I just can't promise perfect colors.
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Old May 19, 2008 | 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by mod81
hey man, I'll try to do it for you when I get home...(i'm at work right now). So it will be kinda late before I get home/eat/do things and photoshop this but there's gonna be 2 things to consider. one is that there's probably no way I can duplicate the exact colors of those DB9's but I can at least get a nice dark gray and black for you. The other thing is that it's very hard to get the black to be "shiny glossy black unless the car you're using is already dark shiny blue or maroon or dark in general. You just tend to lose a lot of detail and it become's a siloheutte(spelling?)... so I have a feeling based on previous work that it may come off a little bit "matte" black. I'll do my best I just can't promise perfect colors.
Thanks man! It's ok if it's not gloss black, the metallic black has somewhat of a gray tone to it anyways.
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Old May 19, 2008 | 05:05 PM
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Hey torque, my apologies for being off topic but what type of wheels do you have and what size are they?
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Enkeis, style is no longer in production. 19x8 front, 19x 9.5 back
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Old May 19, 2008 | 09:28 PM
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That's really good work Matt.
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I vote for Meteorite Silver!
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Old May 19, 2008 | 09:57 PM
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thanks dude...black is tough to do. It's impossible to get "realistic black qualities when you do it. Like I said before, unless you have a dark color where the light refects the same it will never look perfect.

For example...this is a conceptual idea I have for my car if I ever had an unlimited budget...this is done using 82mdvettes dark blue metallic car and as you can see the black is more "real looking" just because dark blue and black have much more common lighting qualities than black and the light blue.

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Thanks mod81! I owe ya one. I'm leaning towards the black now. Your vette photoshop actually looks like a metallic black.
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