Thread: paint time on the Ranchero

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it's about time to do the paint on my 67 Ranchero. It has some pretty radical mods, partial mustang quarters and doors, caged, tubbed, etc. Anyway, I must defer to the experts on paint, I know the look I want, but am unsure how to get there. I'm thinking of I starting with a silver metallic basecoat, add some ghost flames in dark purple, then some purple pearl tint in the clear coat I should end up with some real mild color tint changes in varying light/angle of view conditions. Is this right, or am I just having another 60's flashback again? I don't want the "chrome illusion" gig with all the radical colors. I want the paint to compliment the car, not hide it. Thanks in advace for the help.

HI Dave,

If you are wanting Ghost flames on your Silver base & you are going to use a Dark Purple for the flames then they will not be Ghost Flames . ( not unless your ghost flames & my Ghost flames are 2 different things)The only way I see to get ghost flames with a dark Purlple is tinting your clear with Kandy Purple with your pearl added also , to tone it way down, to where its just a slightly tinted color Clear.The only draw back on doing it this way is keeping the Tiger Stripes & mottling down when actually spraying it this way.

The way I would do it for my ghost flames over Silver base would be to mask off my flames over the silver & then Just Spray my violet pearl

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down over the Silver in just a few coats. ( I always do a spray out on a piece of metal to see how it will all turn out before I do the car! I do this Spray out to See how many coats of pearl I need to get the effect I am trying to achieve.)

I hope I didnt confuse you Dave & sounds like you will have a neat Ride when its done .

SprayTech

Like spray tech said.

I'd use 2 coats of purple pearl on the flames then 1 coat over the entire car. This way the flames will be 2 shades darker then the rest. Then give it 2 coats of clear.