Hot Rods What does paint color say about your hotrod?

nice paint is highly overrated...I painted my pickup with a roller and a brush....RustOleum hunter green.....just an old hillbilly beater, 1956 Dodge 1/2ton.

 

Most occasions when I paint a car the colour has been chosen from the mismatches at the paint shop,,,Get some hellish good deals on quality paint...One day they even had some puke green Lessonal.. $300 paint for $15.00..it was gawd awful but totally suited 80's ford

 

Somtimes ya gotta make em bright so you can find them in the dark!!!

But my '54 isn't bright enough!! next one is gonna be yella !!

 

Just primer when it rains i pull it out
for a rinse job

 

I didn't paint mine untill 6 months after this thread was started, so as long as we've dug it up I'll say that for me Dove Grey is the new black, and at 64 years old it's a hell of a lot easier to care for. I've had several black cars and I'm done with black.
So I guess in short, my paint choice says " I'm gettin old ".

 

I always envisioned my car maroon..I would like to find a very dark maroon..just sick of black.

 

paint?

 

This post was brought to you by Geico.
Or is that gayco.

 

Mine say's I'm P-whipped. I wanted to paint it a Candy Blue with White scallops. My wife came out to the shop one night when I was working on it and said it will be Red!!! As you can see she won.

 

Club coupe look in the ford dealership for a paint & assessory brochure. Lots of color choices. My roadster is 96 ford truck deep iris metallic,pic is a few posts back. I like stock colors easier to touchup.

 

Aw shucks C R S strikes again that's the brides bird. SOOO here's the roadster

 

That its owner had sense enough to paint it.
Paul

 

Didn't he get a job at Geico?

 

that I can't afford real paint?

 

Damn its a car not a mood ring!

 

Mine is more of a mood ring than a car.....Just like my motorcycle.

 

My tbucket is black! My 29 pick up is black! All four of my harleys are black even my mood ring like my sense of humor is black!

 

Sheep rodders versus black sheep rodders. Gary

 

^^^^^^^
that my friends, is why I am a Kustom guy
Paul

 

My Essex will be light grey, probably with white scallops. Wheels will be black.

 

black sheep rodders? I'm a shoe-in...

The '58 is kind of a seafoam green pearl with bluish purple flames, it's a little funky and fun. Women and children love it...

 

For every color that I said I would never paint a car, I can always find an exception that looks good.

 

i call my roadster " Von Dutch on Acid" or "Traditional with a Twist"

 

Back in the early 50's my neighbor inherited his elderly aunts all original folkstone grey coupe.It was a car that I really liked to look at in those days and got me interested in old cars. We palyed for hours in that car pretending to go on trips and such, I only wish I had it today, his dad sold it for $200. After much thought and delberation I am painting my current build, a 40 coupe folkstone grey. I would be the first to concede I am getting up there, but painting my hot rod grey is sentimental for me and it is true that lighter colors are less work, so why not?

 

Some of our cars. I hated the pink 49 Ford but it sort of grew on us. At least I could tell everyone it was my wife's car!
The yellow 41 Ford is what I traded the pink one for. A slight improvement. I also got used to it and many like the color.
My favorite color is red. If all cars were red I'd be happy!
Black looks expensive and clean to me. Black is beautiful.
Actually most colors look good on the right car.We even owned an orange 77 Vette.

 

So why are you on a "traditional" message board?

 

Probably because he is such a hard ass rebel!

 

I painted mine dark green,,,cause nobody likes green !!

 

I always thought my roadster would be black. I love the color on it but, if it gets painted again it will be black

 

Mine says I'm too busy/broke to afford both time and materials to paint it... so far.