Re: paint

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 06:03, mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>    I gotta say Of the two I prefer the grey on the bottom.
> My personal opinion. The allover grey with an SC stripe sounded awesome.
>  To each his own :]

Yeah, it's a close contest. Cars with razor straight lines like this are
easy to two-tone. The all-grey is more modern; two-tone is pretty much
50's/60's invokation.

THere's another variation that looks good on our slab-sided 60's cars:

http://www.wps.com/temp/hornet-side-white-up-down.jpg

Looks like SC/Rambler! A bit of American heritage visible with this...
:-) Now that's a 60's look, or what?

I wish tires came in colors. I've seen some red tread stripes on
Japanese import cars (I mean cars physically transported from Japan; how
they get away with this I don't know) but that's all.



> 
> 
> Mark Price
> markprice242ATadelphia.net
> Morgantown, WV
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Subject: Re: paint 
> From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> 
> To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> Message-Id: <1138343866.5683.128.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:37:47 -0800 
>  
> O
> Welp I decided to stick with two-tone. No SC360 stripe. I went to the 
> paint shop, looked at a few cars, and found a white compatible with the 
> gray: 1997 BMW "Alpine White" Underhood, Dupont F1151. Mixed for top 
> coat. It's slightly more putty than top coat "Alpine White III". 
>  
> Keleigh -- "1999 Audi TT Aviator Grey Perl Effect" is actually a 
> metallic; very faint and fine metal. I'm having it mixed WITHOUT the 
> metal. Thanks for finding this out for me! 
>  
> I'm gonna paint it gray on TOP and white on BOTTOM. I fully realize this 
> is upside down from tradition, but it works because there is so little 
> "up" above the beltline. See these photos: 
>  
> http://www.wps.com/temp/hornet-side-gray-up.jpg
> http://www.wps.com/temp/hornet-side-white-up.jpg
> 
> 
> (I apologize for the TERRIBLE Photoslopped images; I didn't bother to do 
> a good job.) 
>  
> Wheels will be gray. Grille etc will be white. Bumpers, probably white 
> but I'll work that out. 
>  
> I strip it of doodads tomorrow and drop it off... 
>  
> FINALLY! 
> 
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