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What do you think of all the colors being painted on cars. Last nite at a local show I saw a beautiful 37 cpe painted yellow on the roof orange at the top of the body & purple on the bottom.It was striped in blk & white squares.

10 yrs ago I thought purple was just a short time fad.

Will this trend continue?

I cannot picture that in my head but I know what your talking about. It's like the cars paint jobs on overhaulin, 3 and 4 colors, I think it is overkill my self although, Foose's color combinations really do go togther. I don't know how long it will last but being Foose is making it popular, it will probably stick for a while. I like purple hotrods, I'm painting the '51 Chevy a medium dark grape like color purple.

Picking colors to me is the hardest decision in a build. The wrong color or combinations of colors can absolutely kill an otherwise nice car. Two tones are still popular with a subtle graphic color to break the two tone, but it's real easy to over do a paint scheme. I'm in the finishing stages of a car and had to completely re-do the graphics because although they were nicely done, it was way too much for the car. I've learned that "simple & less" is better. Some cars are better left a single color with no graphics or stripes at all. Some designers say that you've got to please yourself first, but I always think about resale.

All my cars are solid dark colors for that reason. Nothing to make cops turn their heads like 455 coming out of the pipes from a Bright Yellow car screaming 442. That was the day i decided to hide in the shadows.

I like what Streets said there, scallops look good on a lot of different cars if colors are picked right.

Scallops!

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i like um one color with accents' (ralley stripes, painted pin stripes) although i have a metallic pearl blue car i perfer pure colors red, black, white, yellow. can't go wrong with red or black

Originally posted by panelbeater
i like um one color with accents' (ralley stripes, painted pin stripes) although i have a metallic pearl blue car i perfer pure colors red, black, white, yellow. can't go wrong with red or black

The older I get the more I realize there isn't a right or wrong paint design (Well within reason. HEHEHE). I do designs for people on a regular basis, and what I found years ago is ..... What one person thinks is great another person thinks is bad. "Who is right" ? I think the owner is right. I usually make up several designs for a job initially. I let the customer pick a design or a combination of several design elements or a completely different design from the original set of proofs. Their money .... their choice. Many times they pick the same design I like, or if they ask my opinion they usually go with the design I pick. But then ............. sometimes they come up with some off the wall stuff. With computers and "Printshop" type programs you get a few customers that think they are designers. Some do a good job, some don't have a clue. Some like a single pinstripe on a car or truck, some aren't happy unless every void area is covered with something .....anything. My motto iz' ......... If they got the dime .... I got the time. All that counts is the owner drives away happy.