Now, what would look realy sweet would be one of the new whites with all the pearl in it! something that just looks white from a distance, but when you get close it just comes to life. Course that may not work at all if your truly going to try for that 50's flair. -- Mark Price Morgantown, WV 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5 2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II " Chronic Pain Hurts" -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> > On Fri, 2 May 2008, Matt Haas wrote: > > > Besides cream and white, mint green, black, and a dark metallic brown > > would work as an accent color -- look to 50's era bathrooms for > > inspiration. Also, you can hit that body line with the same accent color > > (see the drawings at http://www.amcyclopedia.org/node/14 for an example) > > or maybe even a different accent color for a tri-tone effect. > > In addition to umm neon green, I'd favor a faintly > off-white. Light and airy is a refreshing change. The car's > got a lot of glass, and a lot of chrome (relatively speaking), > all make for 'light' as a direction. > > But hey, a roof paint job shouldn't be too invasive, you can > close up the rest of the car and drive it a while and see how it > works out! With wheels/wheel covers, trim if you're doing that, > etc, it will get less mono-chrome-y. > > I've got white powder coated wheels on my Hornet. Still > love them. I only wish I'd gone for wider smoothies from > Wheelvintiques instead of stock. Chrome trim rings and moons > are pretty close period-wise, and are very practical and cheap. > > > _______________________________________________ > Amc-list mailing list > Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list