Thread: Flat colors...will they go "out of style" or are they pretty much here to stay?

Tweet

When it comes to trends, you each have to choose what makes you happiest. You can jump on one that is currently exploding, but just be aware that it may become common, then eventually nobody is interested any more.

You can use an emerging trend, and "ride the wave" for a while.

You can use a classic theme, that may work well for an era that your car represents... but interest will always be good, but not great.

Lastly, you can step away from the crowd, and do something that will always be unusual. It may not be the "trick of the week"... but it will always be timeless since it is not part of ANY trend.


Trends that I think are classic, and therefore will always be around to some degree...

pinstriping
'60s flames... (on the right cars)
colors classic to an era the car imitates

Trends that are going over the hump, and will fade with time... (all are being done a LOT!)

flat black
trufire... real fire... photorealistic flames
skulls

Trends that are on the rise...

various shades of green
'60s effects like metalflake... endless line... fish scales... etc.
Not too far ahead may be others like lace paint, and the psychedelic graphics of the early seventies. Many people today are chosing to give these old treatments a new twist.

These are only MY observations, and others will not agree. (That's the way it is on the net.) :-)