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I love white cars and trucks.
My 73 is classic white and while I like it white I feel the lines of a C3 look better in color.
I'll be painting mine in the next couple of years and I'm looking at black or British racing green metallic.
From: South of Phoenix Arizona, but North of no-where.
I never thought about Corvette color since my Chestnut brown (special order) 61 was totaled 50 years ago. I just longed for another vette no-matter what color. Well, maybe not pink. So when an '81 C3 finally came along a month or so ago it did not matter to me what color it was (except pink). But it just happened to be white and in the process of changing the interior over to black (from silver/gray). And it is gorgeous!
Specially with the mirror/black Tee tops.
But this thread reminds me of a specialty seminar I attended many, many years ago on truck paint color.
The seminar was designed to assist fleet owners in picking a truck color to represent a business. The basics I remember from back then was red was colorful, but evoked a bit of fear, hostility, or alarm. Which was why firetrucks were red and cops stopped red cars twice as often. Black was a color showing ego or superiority, which is why so many men prefer black furniture. Lime green and the yellows were school bussy and municipal like. Dark Green disappeared into the foliage, some colors were gay, some macho, some feminine. Some were more suited to being acceptable when dirty, some not so much. Specially white. White has to be spotless all the time because it was so associated with cleanliness and 'virginity'. (Insert leering smiley face here) . As an example; a white truck, when dirty brought out feelings of disgust while no-one gave a dam about a dirty green truck.
But the most important thing I remember from that seminar was women back then (over-all) preferred spot-less white.
So, a spotless white Vette with black macho interior? ...................Need I say more?
Last edited by Redbirdman; May 8, 2019 at 10:50 PM.
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Some decades back, there was a beautiful, clean white '70 coupe I'd regularly see around my vicinity. White looks great on bumper cars too. Eventually I saw the driver; an equally attractive woman who seemed a bit senior to me. No, we did not meet and never learned who she was. She must've liked liked white C3; she drove it for many years. I recall it had a dark interior I assume was black. Haven't seen that car in some 15-20 years. I think OP made a good choice in returning his to white.
Yep, there are lot's of old geezers in Florida and I'm one of them, but, the truth is the Ceramic Gray looks more like a dirty white car to me. And the reality is, Arctic White really pops in the Florida sun.
In case you missed it, here's an 80 with nifty pearl white paint, and a full-chrome engine compartment. Hopefully it gets updated with some better photos.
All of these white beauties are just awesome! That Cadillac White was the show stopper to me tho. I had my Celica GTS done in a metallic pearl and I just love the color, I think that’s why I was bias.
From: South of Phoenix Arizona, but North of no-where.
Thank you for bringing this thread back to life! I just brought my basket case home when the thread was started. I’m not sure what color white it is, the PO before the last PO had it painted and clear coated 10 years ago. It’s been apart and stashed away since. It has some hangar rash and the hood needs adjusting but She has a couple hundred miles on her now.
Not mine... I brought it over from the link above. Was posted by OURSHARK
holy moly ! My white 80 L82 needs paint and that’s a good color option . I’ve always loved the 1982 silver green and the silver blue colors and the white diamond like a white version of that
And the reality is, Arctic White really pops in the Florida sun. 
