Paint color , will wrong color hurt the value

jon rand · #1 01-29-2002, 12:42 PM

I have a 73 MOTION CAMERO, The original color is midnight green/white strips. the green looks like the color on those cheap plastic out door chairs,no metalic. BUTT UGLY...... How much will a color change hut the value?

Rat_Pack · #2 01-29-2002, 03:57 PM

Jon, on a car like that it could mean a lot to change the color. No matter how ugly you think it is, original is always the best when it comes to a car like yours. The new base clear systems actually make some of the old colors look better than they did when new....................RatPack...............

COPO PETE · #3 01-29-2002, 04:13 PM

I have to agree with Rat Pak. I don't believe there is such a thing as a ugly colour when the new base clears are used. A good paint job makes all the difference in the world!
Peter

**Charley Lillard** · #4 01-29-2002, 09:14 PM

Paint it the correct color with a Killer Paint job and you will love it. Also write Camaro 25 times on a Chalkboard.

[Edited by Charley Lillard (01-29-2002 at 04:14 PM).]

jon rand · #5 01-30-2002, 05:28 AM

OOP's Camaro.

NWYENKO · #6 01-30-2002, 05:35 AM

Paint it the original color. Charley, write chalkboard 25 times on the chalkboard!!! Jim

jon rand · #7 01-30-2002, 05:44 AM

I figured car guy's were exempt from spelling test. I guess I'll paint it the original color. Hopfully it looks good. I will try to have it done in time for the reunion.

**YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY** · #8 01-30-2002, 05:57 AM

Definitely paint it the original color, then you never need to explain anything. A lot of guys really like the dark green colors, so you don't have to worry about resale.
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**tom406** · #9 01-31-2002, 08:09 AM

If it were anything other than a MOTION car, I'd say life's too short to reshoot ugly colors....hmm...that's a tough one.

The guys are correct about quality paint. I've seen outstanding, attractive examples of Burnished Brown, Fathom Green, and Granada Gold. But if you don't nail the quality, they're as ugly as they sound. One note here-take the time to shoot a test panel first. Have your painter "tweak" the color a little if it doesn't look right. On rarely seen colors, you have some latitude to play with the color a little, because people don't remember the color well enough to call you on it. I have a friend that uses modern formulas with more visual snap when he restores silver cars. Silver cars are so few and far between, nobody notices the difference, other than the car stands out more than the original, duller formula would have.

I also have a customer who paints almost all his cars Tuxedo Black (including an original Cranberry Red LS-5 w/AC '70 Chevelle), because they're his cars, dammit, and he wants them that way. If the test panels just don't work out, pick another '73 era color and shoot it right. (I'd lean towards red with a white Motion stripe...)

I'll go out on a limb and say that a color change will cost you $5-10K resale on a top flight, documented Motion car. But if you can't stand the look of it when its done, what's the point, unless you're planning to turn it right away. Good luck.

**YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY** · #10 01-31-2002, 12:47 PM

'silver cars are so few and far between'. I didn't think that silver cars were very rare, I seem to see a few at each show I go to - especially '69 Z's??
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