New Colour for the Mustang

mustang68

I'm getting as many opinions as I can on the colour I want to get, mine has gone quite flat in places, so I'm getting it sprayed, so here goes:

I'm going to get my car:


in this colour:


Other ideas of the colour here.

chiefwiggum

jesus .....it'd look the business in that colour

Ferris

Saw a GT coupe in the US that was recently done with metallic grey and black shelby stripes. Looked very sharp. Look on US ebay for ideas.

Dades

mustang68 wrote: »

I'm going to get my car...in this colour:

A bit like this?



I'd go a bit darker myself - more navy!

MercMad

mustang68 wrote: »

I'm getting as many opinions as I can on the colour I want to get, mine has gone quite flat in places, so I'm getting it sprayed, so here goes:

I'm going to get my car:


in this colour:


Other ideas of the colour here.

...........there is a Shelby Clone knocking around in that colour with the white stripes. it does look well.

Be carefull though that the shade you pick doesn't look too modern. I'd stick with original colours, or originally available colours if it were mine !

This looks close,

L-M

Or you could go for the Shelby GT500 look lol. (Sripes proved harder to do than i imagined.)




I have it saved as a .Psd so if you want to try out any colour you like, let me know and i'll do it for you.
No limitations to the colours you can pick :P

carchaeologist

^groovey baby.....Austin powers would be proud!

Thats a great way of checking out a colour!

Big Nasty

The most traditional colours fore 'Stangs would be blue, red, or white. Up and over shelby stripes are optional but look a bit silly on a coupe IMO. The above mentioned colurs are a bit over done, but that's coz they work. Black or gray is also an option;. Here's some examples:

mustang68

MCMLXXV wrote: »

The most traditional colours fore 'Stangs would be blue, red, or white. Up and over shelby stripes are optional but look a bit silly on a coupe IMO. The above mentioned colurs are a bit over done, but that's coz they work. Black or gray is also an option;. Here's some examples:

Thanks, I think that it would most likely look like the one above, I'm a bit unsure of stripes myself, I'm not going to get them painted, but I might mock them up (in paper)to see how they look. My painter shall be coming back to me to tell me if the colour I asked (the sonic blue) will look well and a price, I'll see what se says about the paint.

PaulK_CCI

MercMad wrote: »

...........there is a Shelby Clone knocking around in that colour with the white stripes. it does look well.

Be carefull though that the shade you pick doesn't look too modern. I'd stick with original colours, or originally available colours if it were mine !

This looks close,

I would agree with MercMad, be careful not to choose a colour that is too modern, it will take away from the car.

The colour that was used as per factory on the Old Mustangs, was "Acapulco Blue". I sold a very nice example to a customer in the Cork area a few years ago. It's still listed in the 'Sold' section of the website. In the flesh, the blue was actually a lot darker and pronounced, somehow the pics came out lighter... it was late afternoon on a dulll day...
Ford Mustang J-code GT Acapulco Blue

Ferris

MCMLXXV wrote: »

I really like that one, unoriginal I know but it looks very fresh.

S.I.R

Blue... Royal blue...


Nothing else would suit it imho

Max_Damage

S.I.R wrote: »

Blue... Royal blue...


Nothing else would suit it imho

Can't believe I'm going to agree with SIR on something, but he's right on this one!

Gary ITR

Max_Damage wrote: »

Can't believe I'm going to agree with SIR on something, but he's right on this one!

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.....

mustang68

Decided to go for it: Spent a week dismantling the car with a friend and it went off to the painter on monday. No nasty surprises when we took it apart, seems to be quite solid under there. Dropped into it yesterday and its all prepped for the paint to start today, I shall keep you posted

MercMad

Are you going back to bare metal or flatting and colour coating ??

What colour will it be anyway ?

mustang68

Down to the metal was too expensive for me, the painter went down to metal around places like the windows, edges and where there had been loose paint. He's going to seal it and then primer, colour and lacquer.

i went for the Ford Sonic Blue, its a US colour and it seems to look good on this car

MercMad

Yeah thats nice indeed !!

Good luck & looking forward to seeing the finished result !

Dades

Hope it works out!

Blue is the only colour.

Big Nasty

Great colour!

Best of luck to ya dude.

Keep us posted......

mustang68

Thanks everyone, I'm having a look at it tomorrow and all going well I'll get it monday and reassemble it for the rest of the week.

caprilicious

mustang68 wrote: »

I'm getting as many opinions as I can on the colour I want to get, mine has gone quite flat in places, so I'm getting it sprayed, so here goes:

I'm going to get my car:


in this colour:


Other ideas of the colour here.

U lucky lucky boy I'm green with envy what a beaut of a car!!!
Do you mind me asking roughly how much its costing for the respray?

I'd love to get my car resprayed.

Best of luck with the 'Stang I aspire to one of them eventually!

mustang68

Went to have a look at the car over the weekend and it looks a little something like this:

alastair

Where have the side repeaters gone?

Colour looks well on it!

mustang68

alastair wrote: »

Where have the side repeaters gone?

Colour looks well on it!

Thank you! the rear ones are not indicators, in the early 68 they were just reflectors. Just took them off for the painting.

Abelloid

mustang68 wrote: »

Went to have a look at the car over the weekend and it looks a little something like this:

Very nice. Love Mustangs.

MercMad

Looking good, and fast work too !

Cant wait to see it back together. Was it done in Dublin ?