red skylines

[coco69]

hey all owners of red skylines. especially 32's :bahaha:

post your pics here

red skylines rock! no competition. :shake:

[XrSiSt]

mines red.. but not a 32..

its in my sig

[coco69]

is the stock 33 red darker than the stock 32 red?

[Zahos]

The R33 "red", is actually not a red. Well I know for sure mine isn't, and there's an easy way to check...

Mine is a 3 layer perl spray job (factory), and it consists of the following....

It is firstly sprayed a brownish color,

then a layer of perl is sprayed over that,

topped off with a tinted clear (most likely a tint of red in it), Which makes it look like a metallic red, but if you look at it in sunlight, the closer yoou get, the more the paint changes.. you can notice the perl.

Anyhow, here's a pic of my ride, the pic doesn't do justice to the spray job and the color...

[Zahos]

And here is a pic of the color difference.

The engine bay is only painted with the first layer, no perl, no clear.

I've pointed the grille out to be final color, but in this case it is a metallic red / maroon I had mixed up for me, b/c it is an aftermarket one I sprayed myself.

[predator]

Nice colour Zahos, but yeah, that photo doesn't do it any justice... just looks like a red to me.

Probably pretty rare colour, I know it would cost a fair bit to respray any skyline in any sort of pearl finish.

[Zahos]

If I had of known it was a perl, I wouldn't have bought it! I've always done my own re-spraying myself, but now I'll have to take it to a panel shop if anything happens, as spraying with perl yourself, f**king it up, and spraying again will cost just as much or more!

Oh well!

Zahos

[DREMEN]

Here is mine

[SKY031]

I think coco69 is just a Red Devils groupie :uh-huh:

[coco69]

:bahaha:

muahahhaa... red cars go fasta!

[predator]

Dremen, I'd go so far as to say you're car is actually burgandy red.. same as the one i am getting. There is a difference between that and straight red or whatever it is which is much brighter.

[DREMEN]

Originally posted by predator666

Dremen, I'd go so far as to say you're car is actually burgandy red.. same as the one i am getting.  There is a difference between that and straight red or whatever it is which is much brighter.

Yeah mate... it doesn't look like the normal red...

I have heard of wine red being a stock colour but no other stock reds??

[predator]

ok...here is a pic.. I wouldn't call this stricty "red" though like say the new Monaros or whatever.

[skyzerr33]

see my avatar

yeah mines got a supple gold pearl through it, i've seen a factory special that had a silver pearl looked nice

[Zahos]

Yeah, I think mine has the silver perl in it.

I copped a big shock when I went to get some paint mixed...... bloody expensive!

[predator]

They can come out of the factory with some unique colours sometimes. I think over in Japan, sometimes the line-manager gets on the saki the night before or something, while he's still recovering the next day, out of the factory that day comes some weird-ass finishes

[XrSiSt]

haaaha yea.. but the 33 red does seem darker than the 32 red..

Well from what i've seen anyway..

[ix9]

red this, red that! they're ALLLLL too common!

WHITE RULES!!! (read: i'm a mighty whitey groupie)

i thought there was only ONE RED.. "WINE" it's a deep red/maroon pearl..... ? which can lookin PIMP if redone with a darker pearly thing... (who's got that wine red one in perth, with the stickers down the side, and the locker diff ? - AWESOME!)

[25GTT]

OK OK,

I just had a can (cost me bloody $27) of colour AN0 which seems to be the norm for that wine red colour... anyway I remember the name for the actual colour was super red pearl... somthing like that!

In my old age of 23 i can remember definately the words 'super' & 'pearl' being part of it... so yeah pearl seems to be a standard in our colour!

[Zahos]

White.......

Can look good on many cars but lacks in shine... well, you cant see the shine b/c the color itself reflects so much light.....

Same as silver. I used to have a silver R31... loved the color, as scratches, and dirt hardly even show up, it is the best color if u cant be stuffed washing ur car, but again, doesn't shine as well as darker colors!

But from what I have gathered the "wine" red, doesn't even exist... I think someone gave that name to the color somewhere along the line, and the name has stuck! If any1 has tried to get their "red" skyline paint mixed somewhere, and it came up as "wine" red, please correct me! I thought mine was "wine" red, but when I got the paint code to get it mixed, it came up as perl red.