what is the best maroon color...?

Here's a maroon of a 84 Checy truck.

 

looking to do maroon on the next 40 cpe but not stock 40 color--like the stock 40 dlx dash maroon--has brown cast--really like the color on the 32 2 dr sedan-saw a 40 pu with a nice maroon with no metalic--think guy said it was 85 Toyota color??

 

Madiera maroon 77-78 caddy color GM 79 PPG Delstar Acrylic Enamel

 

Maroon is the hardest color by far to get right. My favorite maroon is black but I'm lazy and don't like making decisions

We sprayed out 20 different panels of different maroons and burgandies trying to get one right and never did settle on one of them. It's alway too red, too brown, too purple, too orange, too pink....you get the idea.

Let us know what you pick

 

1976 Ford pickups had a good color of maroon. Friend of mine some years back painted a '40 ford with it looked like a stock color. Sorry do not have name or code, but there is a web site, tcpglobal, you can find this out on.

 

That Checy looks purple

 

Packard maroon!

 

***autumn maple poly X2***


Painted my 40' Dodge cpe. fire wall and jams.. Never did finish the body. Nice color (Chrysler color)
Awesome color !!

 

I agree, and wonder why two people so far would find this thread terrible and rate it one star...?

 

Moriarity, I never get tired of seeing your '61. That's a great color. You wouldn't happen to know the paint code, would you? That color would look great on my '64.

 

That 32 Sedan cabernet red is slick looking. Thanks for the paint code also.

 

TEXAS A&M maroon,GIG EM AGGIES!!

 

here is another Maroon thread with a bunch
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=536877&highlight=red

 

Here is our version of Honduras Maroon.



BB

 

I love it! That is my favorite quote of the week! Thanks!!

 

Thats what we used in the late 50's and early 60's.
Great color

 

That's alright. Thanks though.

 

I think the Ford pickup truck color from the 70's is called Midnight Canyon Red

 

new ford color called royal red. has a small gold flake in it. very sharp

 

had one of these when i was in the navy around 1981, it was a 72 amc javelin amx, but mine had a gold stripe. that thing would shine better then most any other color i've had. now i wish i had it again.

odie

 

The color is relaxing and makes me want to drink cranberry and vodka all day.

 

CLASSIC MAN !!!

Love that one !!

Rat

 

Mine is early 90's S10 Garnett

 

Groucho....wow that is a great shade of red...

 

x2 on the Jag Regency Red

 

When you say SOLID do you mean NOT a metallic (polychrome)?

This is definitely a matter of personal taste. For reference material, are you familiar with the web site paintref.com? Combine this with Google Image searches and you can get a pretty fair idea of what a color looks like. For example you're cruising paintref.com and '62 Corvette Honduras Maroon' catches your eye:
http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?manuf=GM&model=Corvette&year=1962&rows=50
Then later see '65 Corvette Milano Maroon' and want to compare them:
http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?manuf=GM&model=Corvette&year=1965&rows=50

Open google and do an image search for 'Corvette Honduras Maroon':
http://www.google.com/images?um=1&h...ch:1&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&q=corvette honduras maroon
Make a mental average of all of them, then do another Google image search for 'Corvette Milano Maroon':
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&...no maroon&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi
Make another mental average. Flip back and forth.

You can play in Google Images for days. Find a color in Paintref.com and search for it in Google Image.

Besides the 'Vette Maroons, I like the mid 60's Ford Maroons:
Royal Maroon PPG 50746
Burgundy PPG 50657
Vintage Burgundy PPG 50669
Another real popular color in the 60's was Emberglo PPG 22610, which is what my '59 F100 was painted.

If you want a more 'modern' look I like the '98 Ford:
Dark Toreador Red PPG 5115
or the lighter Toreador Red PPG 5096. I used that on the roof of my freebie Skylark.

 

I like how DuPont's "Go-Fast Maroon" looks-

 

42-48 Plymouth "Cruiser Maroon".

 

I found this on google images when I was looking for Mayfair Maroon.