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Re: Opinions Needed On Color Choice
by the way - I've never seen the guy with the green 55.1 on this site - but he has a very interesting and cool blog on how he fixed up his ol green 55.1 - I really enjoyed reading this: http://www.laroke.com/larryk4674/2000/bbwip.htm
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Re: Opinions Needed On Color Choice
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I may also be bias since I am painting mine red. Mine isn't a hot rod (stock) so it will look like this. ![]() Last edited by Root2812; 09-13-2011 at 01:01 PM. |
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Re: Opinions Needed On Color Choice
dang that's purdy
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Re: Opinions Needed On Color Choice
good looking red Root2812
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Re: Opinions Needed On Color Choice
Every single shiny paint job will show everything and anything. You like the black and the olive green, so why not do the fenders in black and the body and grill in the green. Instead of gloss go semi-gloss, the semi will show less obvious marks than full gloss will and it will set it apart from the other thousands of trucks out there.
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Re: Opinions Needed On Color Choice
I don't want shinny. I guess what i should have asked is
if you where given a truck 4Free and had two two to pick from. One was Matte Black the other was Matte drab Green witch one would u pick The Black? Or The Green? You no how these things get off subject before you no it we will be talking about what fertilizer we use for are lawns LOL |
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Re: Opinions Needed On Color Choice
I vote for O D G
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Re: Opinions Needed On Color Choice
It's easy for me, olive drab! Oh and by the way, I use Scotts lawn pro on my lawn...hahaha
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LOL sgtusmc me to love the stuff
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Re: Opinions Needed On Color Choice
I don<t like olive drab it looks washed out.I tried it on my 42 Willys jeep. I ended up painting it Marine drab,It is a darker color.It looks like flat Forrest green it is the color on the ammo boxes
Drab colors seem to fade faster than gloss and semi gloss colors because of the powder used to kill the gloss. |
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Re: Opinions Needed On Color Choice
Anyone up for Tan? Not my photos, I saved them from a previous thread on this forum, I'm obsessed with this burb!
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Re: Opinions Needed On Color Choice
This 1951 Suburban inspired me to build one after i finish my Yellow 51 5 window
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Re: Opinions Needed On Color Choice
I agree with BigDan. I would paint the body flat Olive Green and paint the fenders flat black. That would be a great looking combination. If you painted some shop truck lettering on the truck doors that would finish it off.
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Re: Opinions Needed On Color Choice
hey, whatever happened to all the high-fives for orange! (
![]() But I know you don't want orange - just had to show it tho. If flat green and black are the options - I vote dark green - i.e. like a faded original paint job. NOT o.d. green unless you're actually trying to make it military-looking. I think the tan paint above would look sweet in suede - or maybe tan with black fenders/steps?? Hmmm. Also keep in mind - a "good" flat paint job is every bit as much work as a shiny paint job. And while VERY minor flaws may be covered up, anything above that will not, generally speaking, should take same amount of work/prep as a non-rubbed-out gloss job. I can't wait to see this thing! And, btw, that burb above is beautiful! I also posted some blacks and greens and black/green or whatever combos for ref. They ALL look good to me! (2 posts to put them in) |
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Re: Opinions Needed On Color Choice
a few more (Hey, what about a suede root beer brown with black fenders!!!)
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Nice work Dan!
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Since you're "obsessed" with that beautiful Suburban I'll tell you the owner told me it is painted 1936 Ford Cordoba brown (though I THINK Cordoba "Tan" is actually the correct name). The steelies are from the WheelSmith I think here in SoCal. He didn't know the name of their color but it was one of their standard powdercoat colors and they were a sort of butterscotch to me. The photos do not do it justice. It was simply fantastic. |
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Re: Opinions Needed On Color Choice
sure wish I knew! (Sorry). It was in a magazine over the past year - classic trucks or custom classic trucks, i think. But no more holding back! Now that I've converted you, here's ALL the rest of my AD orange "collection"...
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Re: Opinions Needed On Color Choice
I will be starting a build thread very soon on my 54 and I have been struggling with color choices, but know longer I love the look of the second truck in flat orange. Will be making a trip to my paint store to look at single stage oranges that I can add flatner to.
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Right now it looks like my truck did in Texas for a couple of years before I moved back up here. |
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Re: Opinions Needed On Color Choice
it seems to me that most, NOT all, flat black trucks I see out there seem "unfinished". In other words, it takes a little extra effrot in my book to make a flat black truck seem "done". Don't get me wrong, many have done it (see Markeb01's GMC in the 60-66 section, BEAUTIFUL truck!)
For some, it's hard to shake the idea that a suede black isn't just a truck waiting for a paint job because so many of us grew up primering in flat black. Now, I DON'T mean to say I don't like suede black trucks - I really like them - but I also think it has to be a certain kind of truck - i.e. NOT a stocker - would need to be a hot rod or modified, etc. Also like them when they are lowered with some nice pinstriping. But for me - color wins - just personal pref. They all look good. |
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Re: Opinions Needed On Color Choice
I also think it's how the flat black is done. I like flat black but people do it so many different ways if it's done with a bomb can or tinted primer after being in the sun for a while it tends to get a gray or white chalky look to it. I like flat black when it is a single stage paint that has been flattened.
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