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! > > >