What color to paint my fox?
 

I'm looking at painting my car come spring after I do some minor rust repair. The paint job on it now is a joke. It's chipping everywhere and has a bunch of pitting and junk on the roof.

I wanted your suggestions on what color to spray it. I'm going to be going the cheaper side probable. Advance auto carries the duplicolor paint shop series paints, like 22$ for a quart or whatever size that is. But if I can get some nicer colors for not a whole lot more, I'll save some money.

The colors I'm thinking about are

Gloss Black
Gloss white ( either plain or metallic)
Either plain gloss or metallic orange
Or blue again like it is


Any suggestions?

If I went orange, I was thinking about either like silver stripes or accents, or flat black accents

Blue would probably get white stripes again.

Black would just be all black

White, probably just all white, or maybe some sorta like blue stripage, I don't know.

Any suggestions? Sorry for the double spacing, hah.

Well if you paint it black it will show every imperfection, and if you paint it white it will be more forgiving. Blue would be a nice color.

If you are spraying it yourself and not experianced White is a lot more forgiving of mistakes. With Black you better have some good supporting bodywork. It's very unforgiving and you will see every flaw in and under the paint. I've seen a few jobs done with the Duplicolor Paintshop paint system. I'm not impressed. I have a friend of mine who knows how to paint cars (he does on site repairs) and he tried it. He wasn't impressed with it either. While I am a huge opponent of Macco paint jobs they do offer up a good bang for the buck for budget paint jobs. Paint jobs are like buying engines. You get what you pay for. One of the best and cheapest way to paint your car is go to an automotive paint supply and buy a gallon of single stage acrylic enamal and shoot your car. It's easy, it's chaep. I bought a gallon of Black single stage for my enclosed motorcycle trailer for 60 dollars and a gallon of reducer and mixed it 50/50 and let her rip. 5 years later it still looks good. I have yet to wax it.

yeah the duplicolor paint shop series are not all that great.
all of the High dollar paints like PPG, SIKKENS, and the others off a low budget grade of their paints. PPG has OMNI, and Sikkens has Lesanol and U tech. This would be a better option for you. As far as color a begginer could prabably spray white and have good results b/c it is a forgiving color, you might even get away with a pearl white. I wouldn't use a cheap gun neither a goodne really makes a difference. and bodywork takes a lot of time and patience for good results. I am a painter at a Ford dealership and have about 8 years experience if you need any help feel free to Pm me.

what about a silver? ...lighter colors easier to hide flaws...

Don't buy that duplicolor, it is a laqure base paint and you will not be happy. You can buy good quality napa paint for about $30 a quart.

As far as color, I like orange....

dark green

tangelo pearl

http://forum.camarov6.com/showthread.php?t=66481

its twice your price range, but it would be well worth it when it was done

http://www.tcpglobal.com/HOKpaint/It...o=HOK+PBC32-QT

^wow haha so bright!

i donna if ya like gray mines got some metlic to it its in my sig