What color should I paint?
 

Hi all
Im hopefully picking up my first SA this weekend. I’ve had a couple of FB’s now have an 89 vert so I’m rotary familiar. This 79 car is rough, gonna need a bit of body work, interior work, and paint.
What color would be most effective.. I’m thinking of going with an original color since it’ll be a full restore. Hard to tell.. but I think exterior was once gray, interior red .

check the placard on the firewall for the color code. there's references somewhere here on the forum to the color charts.

and after a quick google search
https://erix7.home.xs4all.nl/rx7col.html

the SA is a really great design, it looks good in every color.

that being said, i think i would go with a factory color, and then my favorite is Spark Yellow. the Daytona Blue and Mach Green also are great looking, as is the white, and silver.

if you wanted to be cool, Mazda has a color called Ceramic for the 2019's that would look interesting, and then there is one called Eternal Blue, and that would also be nice, they would look factory but not

As things seem to be going with "collector cars" in general, you will virtually always get more $$ value for the car at resale if it is the original color. Its also cheaper to paint the original color because you do not have to have the door jams, sun roof channel, engine comp, etc., repainted as well. For what that may be worth. On the other hand, you have to look at it parked in your driveway so you want a color that will put a smile on your face everyone you walk up to it.

The '79s have a paint code sticker in the engine compartment. I think its on the hood. Its a 2 LETTER code, like (for mine, Sun Rise Red) "RH". That code, if you want to match the factory paint, is all your painter will need to know. Its about a 1" x 2" label. If its gone, post a photo of your current paint, say, at the door jam or in the gas filler compartment where it will be the least faded. Then we can all tell you the correct code...

Stu A
80GS (code RH...)
AZ