Thread: paint collor mixing change? modify collor?

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Originally Posted by MARTINSR

Yeah, I know, you’ll never sell it. Well, I have to tell you, you most likely will someday.
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Okay Brian, first day on the job and you're singin' my song. No folks, he's not my alter ego!

palm, listen to what both the guys have told you. Especially the part about seeing it on a car in as many different light types as you can (sunny, cloudy, nite under lights, etc.). Secondly, saying maroon is a little nebulous. I know you know what you mean, but not all folks agree on what a color name means (color blindness aside............which BTW affects more men than women). I'll post three cars, hopefully your screen will display the colors close to accurately for discussions sake. First off, maroon, as I see it, is one of my favorite colors, all three of these cars are/were mine. I'm also a red guy, and tend to like reds that shade toward blue (thus the type of maroon I like). I've seen colors called maroon range from the color of the first car below, to something I would equate to an almost root beer color (meaning "muddy" looking) Personally I don't like muddy colors, I like them clean. That's neither right nor wrong, to each his own, but it goes to trying to help define color.

The first car is a "true" maroon. It's painted in straight toner, which are "clean" colors. Toner is what the painters use as one or more of the basic components in mixing a color. Other toners are added to shade the colors around to the desired final color (and sometimes these mixtures result in the "muddy" toning I referred to). This color is also a non-metallic, so won't blow your wifes skirt up, but it IS maroon.

The second car is painted in a non-metallic also (again just for reference), and is a factory color for the year 1951 on Hudsons. They called it, tada!!!!.......Maroon. It's the one of these three that's slightly "muddy".

The third car was often referred to as maroon by other folks who liked it and didn't know where it came from. I did just as the fellas have suggested, I walked the new car lots, watched cars driving down the street, looked at finishes in the grocery store lot, etc. This one was a Chrysler color from 1989 they called Claret Pearl. Though not a metallic (as the name implies) it had a translucent "sparkle" that may be what your wife likes (thus the need to see it on a car).

Each of these colors were very different from one another, yet to the casual observer they appear nearly the same. That's what makes it tough.

It's just tough to do suggestions without examples, but go to a Chevrolet lot. They've got a 2006 or 07 color I've seen on the road that somewhat resembles the first car pictured below, but in a metallic/pearl. If you can find it, you might like it.