Car Colour Choice......

[humsup34]

My mates and i were sitting around last night brainstorming ideas as to what colour choice our friends R34 should be resprayed. There was obviously mixed suggestions but in my opinion i suggested something more mainsteam not too over the top even if he went down the path of a "kandy" respray. I guess my argument here is given the fact that cops are in force, vicroads are eyeing our "imports" and every other tom dick and harry with a "zorst" is getting EPAed, why would you want to attract unwanted attention if it had to be a daily driver. Keep it clean, definately no rice or "mugen...type r..." stickers(lol- vtec- YO!). Show cars are one thing but daily drivers are definately another. If it was upto me i would go pearl white, gun metal grey or kandy wine red. Something that makes a "im unique" statement but enough to get the message across to any cop eyeballing my car that im still following the rules. Anyway what do you guys think? What would you respray it if it were a daily driver or showcase masterpiece??

[jezza boii]

A nice glossy black always looks amazing, and has a classy look instead of a ricer look.

[arep3]

showcase masterpiece if your gonna show the car. no point spending big bucks on a mint as paint job only to have it destroyed in the carpark at coles safeway etc...

[llama_au]

Definitely nothing outrageous. Huge fan of stock/stock with a pearl colour resprays, gives the impression that you look after your car and looks awesome without attracting the wrong sort of attention.

[bluejeans]

yeah im with jezza, a nice shiny black car always looks awesome.

in all honesty i cant stand those candy coloured paint jobs - looks stupid to me.

Id rather a nice simple colour with some pearl but no f**king 'lime green' or 'electric blues'.

[Lil_Lucky]

factory colour codes are always good because its always easy to get a colour match if you need to touch up/respray panels in the future. Plus a fresh paintjob is always gonna look mint.

Im getting my r32 respryed in the same factory metallic black.

[Phatboy]

Matte black.

I think the cheapest way to get something like it are the hot rod flats line of paints.

There was a pic of a matte black R34 GTR somewhere on the forum, but I can't find it. Here's one of the 35

Edited February 20, 2009 by Phatboy

[BeEnAr]

Black look sweet but you'll be forever cleaning the thing. Finger prints, bird crap, dust, dirt, water stains from ya washers, pain in the ass if you ask me. Be different, Go Calsonic Blue with white rims *drool*

[alwaysdreaming]

am in the same situation man only with a 33, was thinking black roof orange body or just pure lambo orange. but already been screwed over by fuzz and will definatley not pass rwc again i have decided to go really glossy black with a blue pearl over top to match my blue and black tri-spoke Advans .

good luck with it man, in the end as long as your happy nothing else matters.

[JDMPWR]

pearl white FTW! .. my mate is a spray painter and is spraying his supra (i know omg why not a skyline? haha) pearl white. looks so nice. love pearl white with carbon bits!

[(B1) MR_fanny]

Black look sweet but you'll be forever cleaning the thing. Finger prints, bird crap, dust, dirt, water stains from ya washers, pain in the ass if you ask me. Be different, Go Calsonic Blue with white rims *drool*

no...with black rims

stay away from bright "different" colours...they hurt the eyes. blue is good...not enough blues around

[nuR.spec]

top secret gold?

[juzz]

thats wat im spraying my R32 top secret gold with carbon fibre bonnet and black roof....or same thing but light blue on body instead of gold.

[DNGRUS]

yeah im with jezza, a nice shiny black car always looks awesome.

in all honesty i cant stand those candy coloured paint jobs - looks stupid to me.

Id rather a nice simple colour with some pearl but no f**king 'lime green' or 'electric blues'.

Well said! I completely agree..

[waythinks]

Millinium Jade [Vspec Nur] Titanium [Z-tune]

+1 on Jezza lols on E Blue Lime Green

[UNR33L]

the mat black looks good, but ONLY when it is done properly some mat paint jobs look shit house

[evade]

Matte black.

I think the cheapest way to get something like it are the hot rod flats line of paints.

There was a pic of a matte black R34 GTR somewhere on the forum, but I can't find it. Here's one of the 35

That 35 GTR was a vinyl job, not paint

[Phatboy]

That 35 GTR was a vinyl job, not paint

Oic, never mind then, my bad. Wish I could find that 34 pic.

Not sure how to describe this blue/green colour it looks unique without being overstated:

Edited February 20, 2009 by Phatboy

[Wheezy]

Black is one of the worst colours to go......Cop bait IMO,they will see a gorgeous new black paint job and then follow up with a defect and a reaming.

Why do I say this? Every time a cop pulls me over (just minding my own business) they say the usual? "We pulled you over because of the car, shiny black paint, nice rims etc etc....."

White is the most inconspicious (spelling) colour you can get. They wont look twice unless your unleashing some externally venting gate at their car window etc

[bombtrack]

White is the most inconspicious (spelling) colour you can get. They wont look twice unless your unleashing some externally venting gate at their car window etc

True and you can always offset the white with some nice black LMGT4's!