AdamMeh

It's a ways off yet before I spray our '77 but another thread here made me start thinking about what our car would look like in different colors. This is a non-numbers car so we're going to have some fun with it.

Originally, our plan has been black with a red interior (interior is now black). We may stick with this plan but I've been thinking about some colors to go with the black interior.

These are pretty crude renderings, so my apologies for that.

1) Maybe a burnt orange color? My rendering isn't exact obviously, but would be this House of Kolor paint.





2) Maybe more of a gold color?



This is the fun part Still working on some other color ideas, so I'll post those up and we put them together.

Would appreciate your thoughts,
Adam

wyocat

I like the Orange. especially with that "Candy" look. I love red and as many many many car owners will tell you, you can't go wrong with red. But you do become another red car.

markids77

i think you have the right idea. I believe these cars look best in "jewel tones" like topaz and sapphire....

AdamMeh

I think that type of paint, even in a different color, would really show off the curves on these cars.

vettebuyer6369

No matter how many opinions you solicit on paint color, it's purely a personal taste decision.

Speaking of which, if you go back to your original plan, I like black with the original black interior way better than with red.

AdamMeh

Maybe somewhere in between the first two?

AdamMeh

Actually, the interior was originally Smoke Gray with Black paint. One of the previous owners made that switch.

iokepakai

Rubber bumper vette's look really good in a deep black or dark blue.My 76 will be black or the 07 corvette le mans blue.Color choices are always a tough decision! aloha's

rogman16

Love the Daytona Sunset Orange Metallic on the C6 Vettes!!!!

Rogman

AdamMeh

Hi Rogman,

That is what got me looking at those shades in the House of Kolor paints. Awesome color! As I mentioned above, I really think that color family would show off the curves on a C3.

Adam

dbeall1968

The orange you showed looks like a Chrysler color, "Mango Tango"; I painted my son's Wrangler that color last summer. I really like it, lots of effects in it. I am not sure how a vette will run wearing Dodge colors, though

ATIS

I still like the darker orange in the first picture....I agree that darker colors with a good shine on a sunny day really shows off the cars curves.

myoriginal77

Black.


Frank

ATIS

Maybe a dark green metalic that changes shades like the orange...just a thought.

1$t Vette'68

My son has Forza4 for the X-BOX 360 and we have been messin with different color schemes on the '68

woodsman,ab

Funny,ive been doing the same thing. You can definately get a good idea of what your car would look like using many different color options.

AdamMeh

I don't have an X-box so just using Photoshop in between work jobs. If I can narrow it down to a couple of colors that my wife and I like I'll do a couple of detailed color renderings using those.

Great way to see what colors work etc.

House of Kolor does have a virtual paint booth program which you can buy, but from what I saw there in only one C3 in the program and it's a bumper car which doesn't really help us on color choice. The chrome parts on those cars make a big difference on how a color looks with the rest of the car.

Adam