bliffle

It's time for me to plan the re-paint of my silver 85GSL. Originally I figured to just use the old color, but then I started to admire this pearlescent white that I see on some cars. I think it would be pretty good, and it's not so far from the silver that I'd have to paint the doorsills, etc.

Now, I have vivid image of the85 in pearl white, but no mental image of it in silver.

Will I do the right thing, or is this a sin?

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Eville140

I just painted my 84gsl, it was also grey. I amlost painted it a white color to match my mustang (and I had enough extra paint left over from painting the mustang). But I ended up just using a more modern looking silver color. I'm happy with how it turned out.


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Randy

WackyRotary

Don't paint it black, I thought I like it when I first got it, but soon I realized, every other color stays cleaner looking even if they are dusty compared to black.

I would sugguest a color with heavy metalic added(gray/blue/green/white/red)etc, which really hides tiny scratches REALLY well I found out. Black looks dusty the same day its washed/wax'd. I hope if you change color you change the jams and under the hood also, good luck!

Wacky

buddah9543

I need paint bad as well. I m going to redue the stock 1979 Red. How much did u guys pay for paint and possible some rust work nothing major. I just want to know whats resonable. I m guessing good work around $2000. But for a show car look $4000. Am i right? How much did u guys pay Eville140 your car looks really good. Did u do it yourself?

Eville140

Yea, I did the work on my car. It isn't perfect but the car was free and looked like crap when I got it. I have about $400 in the whole job. I already had a compressor and a decent gun. The paint was PPG and ran about $240 for base coat/clear coat, but I got quite a bit extra. I used about 3/4 a gallon of filler primmer and a ton of sand paper block sanding it before I painted.
It took a few weeks to get it done, but I didn't work on it for very long stretches, a hour here and a hour there type of deal.
If you have a compressor and a place you can spray it you can save a lot of money doing it yourself. I am even ising a semi cheap gun, Devilbis Finishline (about $60) It might not be show quality, but you can say you did it yourself
Plus the car is pretty much going to be a track ***** for me, so I didn't want to put to much time/money in it. Then I would just get upset if/when something happened to it.

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bliffle

Randy,

That car looks good! Do you know the PPG number or color combo? If I can apply a slightly jazzier silver than the old one it might look good.

I figure to shoot it myself: either rent a spraybooth or just build one in the driveway with 2x4s and 4 mil poly.

The trick is good prep: lead in the dings (lead doesn't pop like bondo, and it feathers into the metal like nothing else), remove the removables, mask good leaving the margin on the old paint.

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Eville140

I picked a fairly common color so it would be easy to match up later on. It is a 2003 Honda Accord silver matalic. I sprayed it in my garage. Put a small fan blowing out a window and hosed down the floors before I started. For being only the second car I have ever painted I am really happy.

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Randy

I will see if there is a code on the can tomorrow.

TOUGHGUY

Nice car Eville, I like the clean look of the sides without the big trim. I shoulda done that too! Next time.
http://www.personainternet.com/~www2..._left_side.jpg
I'll be painting it again but not sure which color yet. Maybe silver like yours but with a few tablespoons of the orange I have on it now.

Toughguy

Keaponlaffen

Paint it hot pink

MIKE-P-28

iTrader: (1)

I vote for pink too, ohhh even maybe a lime green...

Eville140

I was very close to going with a lime green, but finding a black/grey interior that is in nice shape is next to impossible. And with my porno red interior with a green exterior I might as well of put some christmas lights on it. lol

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Randy

Keaponlaffen

In all seriousness, I like the look of bright orange on a 7, I think it looks bad-***.

There is a guy on here with an orange 7, with a "rotary inside" logo on the back window... I'll see if I can find the picture...

*edit* The pictures got moved, so I can't show you, but Smeagol was the one, but I don't even know if he ended up getting the car... it didn't look good from his last post in the thread...

bliffle

Maybe I should give it a good carnival color (the 83 will, of course, get the Misty Blue). That way I can use them as Mood Cars.

The orange looked good, but I've got red leather seats, so orange, green, etc., are out. And I don't like black. Pink (or better, fuscia) would be OK, but then I gotta paint the panels and engine comparment too.

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TOUGHGUY

I stopped by the Mazda dealer during lunch and they had a MazdaSpeed Protoge in a cool metallic pearl orange. I just found the new color for my car! I`ll post a pic later when I get home.

Toughguy

Keaponlaffen

found it!



it's Smeagol's car.

more pics here, or if the above doesn't work:

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~mmanitta/rx7.html


it's also got a maroon interior, doesn't look to bad in my opinion....

TOUGHGUY

That IS badass! That is nice.

Here's the Protoge I saw today. The color is called Spicy Orange and the code is 2003 Mazda 25T in case anybody wants it. I WILL be painting my GSL this color. The pic is kinda crappy. You really should see the color in person.

<IMG SRC="http://www.personainternet.com/~www2sdennie/toughguy/Spicy%20Orange%20rightside.jpg"

Toughguy

edit: wtf? It works in the test area! let me try that again.

Keaponlaffen

You gotta put [ img ] and [ /img ] around your link, minus the spaces, as HTML is not enabled on this forum.

TOUGHGUY

OH! thanks!

Toughguy

TOUGHGUY

Ok, not like that obviously!

Apparently, I am not a computer geek after all. LOL

Keaponlaffen

haha, ok... here's how you'd do it, for next time...

just get rid of the HTML all together.

copy the url: http://www.personainternet.com/~www2sdennie/toughguy/Spicy%20Orange%20front.jpg , write [ img ] without the spaces, then paste in the link, then write [ /img ] without the spaces again.

You now have this:

[ img ]http://www.personainternet.com/~www2sdennie/toughguy/Spicy%20Orange%20front.jpg[ /img ]

just take out the spaces and you've got it!

VERY nice color by the way!

TOUGHGUY

It was the friggin' apostrophes!!!!!
Thanks Bud!

Toughguy

rx_7_85_gs

here's a cool application that lets you play with color, wheels and stance of your Rx..plus many other cars... http://www.modifymycar.com/main.html