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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 12:01 AM
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Painting my RX-7. Need opinions.

What would be the best solid color for an FC? I am open to opinions.

Right now it is between black, white or deep blue. Anyone got pics of these that I can look at? I searched but most pics I see are ones of body kits and not stock. I have stock and would love to see these colors on a stock body.

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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 12:27 AM
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if i ever get a chance to repaint mine. meaning if i ever get some money. im going to repaint it gun-metal. the greyish silver color. and touch it off with some bronze te37's
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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 12:50 AM
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i got my own idea...but u can't use it,hehe. Carolina Blue, from UNC. That with my navy interior and all the extras navy is gunna look sweet.
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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 02:09 AM
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I would pick the new Mazda factory color Vivid Yellow. This is a very nice yellow that's not too bright, and has a some red to it. It's on the new Protege 5 wagon, and the MP3. My 2 bits.


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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 03:00 AM
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I would stay with the basic color you already have to some degree. In other words, if your already blue, go with a variation of the blue that is more up to date.

Unless you totally strip down the car and engine bay, you'll always look redone which is the ***** if you ever want to show your car in a group situation, like 7Stock.

What I'm doing is I have a white SE I'm going to redo. Thinking about a Pearl White. Close enough to look original.
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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 03:24 AM
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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 09:44 AM
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chameleon or mystic ocean.
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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 09:57 AM
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chameleon or mystic ocean.
agreed...something unique
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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 11:30 AM
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A few pics to help you decide:

White



2 Tone


Black



Silver


INSANE



Neon Light Blue

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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 11:38 AM
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Red



Mica Blue

[img]http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1667317&a=12781715&p=53063312&Sequence=0&re s=high
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Yellow



Blue Green


Purple
(woops - I'll get those pics online soon).
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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 11:51 AM
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when i repaint my car, i'm either going to stay with a white color, either pearl white, or like arctic white. or paint it yellow kind of like that protege 5
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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 12:08 PM
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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 12:09 PM
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<<<<<<<<<<<<BLACK>>>>>>>>>>>>
ALWAYS
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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 12:26 PM
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I personally love Midnight BLUE for sports cars and mica blue or yellow for convertibles.
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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 01:33 PM
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Take a look motorcycle colors like Kawasaki Lighting Blue, Honda or Suzuki neon cobalt blue. Speedbikes always seem to have nice catchy colors.
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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 07:25 PM
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Purple: (it's just my color changing TII that isn't very photogenic)
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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 07:34 PM
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dude! I'd love to see a canary yellow fc with light blue body gfx, and nice white wheels like mine!

I saw an FD like this, and omg it was sweet!!!

Anyway, here are 2 whites down in the sig.
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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 08:12 PM
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Unless you are tearing down the whole car, it is best to stay with a stock-like color so the difference doesn't stare you in the face.

My personal favorite would be either a gun-metal gray or a deep blue like the Brave Blue that was available on later FCs. It is a very rare color.
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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 10:22 PM
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I would say it's a toss up between black and black. Or maybe black. You might also consider black. If you really don't like any of those choices, the gunmetal grey that someone suggested would be a distant second.

Brad
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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 11:10 PM
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I add my vote to the two last.

Unless, if I throw some red paint on my vert, will it then look exactly like the one above??
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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 11:42 PM
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Black or white.

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Old Aug 28, 2001 | 11:43 PM
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Well I did the economical choice. After hearing it would be quite expensive for them to change colors, I decided to stay with the stock gunmetal/metallic silver color. But I'm lightening it up a few shades.

I appreciate the help a LOT and am saving all these pics. My fiance is looking to get a 2nd gen one day and we will use these to help decide what color to paint hers.
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Old Aug 29, 2001 | 02:43 AM
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out of all the colors in the rianbow your choices are black, white, and dark blue, come one, they got all kinds of shades of every color, i love this blue though, i forgot whose car it was, but i saved it

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Old Aug 29, 2001 | 05:46 AM
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out of all the colors in the rianbow your choices are black, white, and dark blue, come one, they got all kinds of shades of every color, i love this blue though, i forgot whose car it was, but i saved it

That's Crashunit's car.
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Old Aug 29, 2001 | 04:45 PM
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I wanted to go a bit darker, but oh well. DARK BLUE!!!!!!!!!

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