PerkyStina

I am collecting ideas to design a new paint job for my FC. I am in desperate need of a new paint job, and I have an awesome auto paint artist to do stuff, but I want to know what other people have done, so I can get some inspiration. I am open to lots of options, including solid colors and other designs.

Originally, the car was red, but previous owners did an AWFUL job painting her yellow, and they did not seal the red. She is now a funky queso yellow look to her. Yuck. I like the idea of a pretty FD yellow, but like I said, other ideas are welcome!!

Thanks y'all!

gerbraldy

competition yellow..

WonkoTheSane

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I don't like anything other than solid, stock color cars.




Haha I've already talked to you about the design on my FC, But there's all kinds of crazy ideas I have that I would love to implent sometime. One of them involves using "styalized", Mazda-Speed RX-8 style Rotors in metalflake Ice Blue across the side of a gloss black FC. For my Dad's 85 GS that we're getting ready to restore this winter, we're going with a Metal-flake (same style as mine, metal flake in clear coat, not that chinsy, little bits of metal in the paint rubbish ) dark purple-burgendy, allowing a ~3' rotor to show through in black on the hood. This should match his nearly mint stock burgendy interior rather well.

The best way I found to figure out color was to take a picture of your Rx-7 the way it was, and put it in photoshop, move any different colors onto different layers, and edit the colors in there. I have a few from when I was choosing my Rx-7 colors, if you want to see an example.

vipers

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lol....i was gonna say "watch out, most people on this site will lynch you if you dont paint it a factory mazda color".... but wonko beat me to it!!
i painted mine "california orange"... it looks great. if you'd like pics, just look in my vb garage

ScrappyDoo

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If you want the ultimate in bling check out the link. Ungodly but much blingage.

www.chromeit.ca

gerbraldy

I was thinking about painting mine electric blue, or a nice bright 944 silver. Silver with black door jams, underhood, trunk, I think that'd look nice we the doors open or hood, I had a mopar lime lowrider so I'd probably rock any color. My rolla is burnt metallic orange, that'd be a nice color for a 7

casio

haha, i like the chrome! its like silver, but more! i like honda's race white (champion[ship] white). i'm sure the FD's white or S5 white would also be nice. if i did a crazy paint job, i'd paint my rx7 like a german police (polizei) car.
i can do some photoshopping. i changed hiGGi's car (or whoever's it is) from yellow to pink/red/orange/green. i did it rather quickly, but they still turned out decent. if someone wants to host the pics, i'll email them.

MrFuzzy

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Would chrome be legal to drive on the street? Seems like it would be way reflective they might say its to distracting to other drivers.

casio

well, its not really "chrome," just the look. heh, i'm not sure how legal it would be. at the same time, i have no idea what the ticket would be. either way, i think it looked good in the pictures. it may not work for all cars, but i wouldnt mind giving it a try. maybe i'll do my hood in that chrome look. hot!!

ajsuper7

Brave Blue Mica, awesome stock color that you don't see often at all

Falcoms

I was asking myself the same question. I've come up with several opinions:
1. silver cars (excluding the chrome thing of hell up above) are not very visible on overcast days (or in general if a driver just glances and dosen't realize you're not the pavement)
2. Bright colors are too bling-ish for me, but at the same time it alleviates the problem encountered in #1
3. Most stock colors from manufacturers are crappy.
4. I like blue (pepsi can blue, to be specific, which is the stock blue on the new mazda tribute)
5. Repainting a car makes the car and owner feel more "as one" (more of a personal feel to the car)

Overall, the choice should be based off of several factors (visibility to other drivers, attractiveness, good blend with car, and you like it because it's "yours"). The only way to acheive this is to just experiment with photoshop (or similar) to get a good idea of what you want.

Rx7 922

paint it the crystal white

ramtookrazy

Pink

casio

i agree.

therotaryrocket

barbie pink

or black

casio

or this green. sorry for the bad photoshopping. cant fix it now. car was a pretty blue.

casio

and an orange. car originally yellow as you can probably tell.

casio

and a white. car was red before casio struck.

NorCal90

OOOOH, I like the green one above, but of course there's always arrest-me-red. Ladys love the red sports cars.

Havoc

yeh Iv just ordered my M sports kit and am going to go all black with pearl speck over the top

Cant wait to have it finished but my work shop tells me its going to take 4 months to do it all...... their very bussy

JCurry

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anyone have pics of a any blue fc, with flake, im getting mine painted as soon as i can tell the guy what i want, i want a dark blue but not sure which one, i havent seen very many pics, of em, i want it to have that glitter affect, which u get by putting flake it.

thanx

Kahren

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hey, that white car is in ct now owned by a friend of mine and its not so white...

LizardFC

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If I had money and more experience with painting, I'd go with two factory colors - One as a base color, and the other as a pearlescent. How about Arctic Silver with a Harbor Blue pearlescent? That would be awesome for a show car.

Flobb

two-tone, 80's style.

btw, that green looks nice. not very many green FC's.

Manolis_D

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Doesn't quite work that way LizardFC... unfortunately You could certainly do a blue pearl over silver though - it'd come out very nice.