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I'm no expert... this is just my opinion:
I'd just use red if your wanting to sell it .
For some reason every one can see themselves driving a red car/truck .
and MOST people only have oNe toy... and they've always thought of it as red . .. ?


Purple Pearl Metallic & dark silver to charcoal color?...sounds fine .

Purple Pearl Metallic & lt.silver to grey, & roll bars and front and rear suspension pieces in black Pearl or charcoal . if the interior is light gray

JMO

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Originally Posted by treekiller

I'm no expert... this is just my opinion:
I'd just use red if your wanting to sell it .
For some reason every one can see themselves driving a red car/truck .
and MOST people only have oNe toy... and they've always thought of it as red . .. ?


Purple Pearl Metallic & dark silver to charcoal color?...sounds fine .

Purple Pearl Metallic & lt.silver to grey, & roll bars and front and rear suspension pieces in black Pearl or charcoal . if the interior is light gray

JMO

T L

Interior is the light grey color.....

As for the suspension colors.....The lower control arms for the front and the 4 bar on the rear are all chrommoly tubular... The rear rod ends are polished stainless, front rod ends will be moly heims.... Maybe charcoal.... Just not a big fan of black anything on a car.... To me it always either looks like somebody is trying to hide something. I don't know....to me, black suspension components on a fendered car just lose all their definition..... Guess that really, I'm just tired of black!!!!! looks boring on a car to me!!!!

Maybe when I get the car mocked up to the stage that it's back on all four I should roll it outside, take some pics, and ask this question again.... It's a long ways from stock appearing.....

Maybe I should just do it in Resale Red and Shiny White..... but I'm trying to recover from being a redaholic!!!!!!!!!!

Dave,

Since you're asking us to put ourselves in the buyer's seat, have you thought about possibly pearl white stripes instead of charcoal? I think that white stripes on purple (if it's the purple I'm thinking of) would really grab your eye and say "LOOK AT ME....DAMMIT!!" Especially with an outline of a couple purple Chevy Bow Ties (I know you'll love that... ...) Embroidered on some white leather seats, with white interior accented in light grey. It may be kind of a pain to keep it clean; but, since you're selling it straight after completion.....

I was heading down a similar path with the Firebird for a while and still think that what I have in my mind, while I probably don't do a real good job of explaining it, would look really good. For me, in the end, I just finally couldn't resist the Corvette Millenium yellow with black stripes and interior.

Anyway, which ever way you go, I'm a pretty big fan of the purple you're considering.

That being said, I'm not going to be the buyer and of course there's a reason we call it "Resale Red"....

Cheers,
Dutch

Originally Posted by Firechicken

Dave,

Since you're asking us to put ourselves in the buyer's seat, have you thought about possibly pearl white stripes instead of charcoal? I think that white stripes on purple (if it's the purple I'm thinking of) would really grab your eye and say "LOOK AT ME....DAMMIT!!" Especially with an outline of a couple purple Chevy Bow Ties (I know you'll love that... ...) Embroidered on some white leather seats, with white interior accented in light grey. It may be kind of a pain to keep it clean; but, since you're selling it straight after completion.....

I was heading down a similar path with the Firebird for a while and still think that what I have in my mind, while I probably don't do a real good job of explaining it, would look really good. For me, in the end, I just finally couldn't resist the Corvette Millenium yellow with black stripes and interior.

Anyway, which ever way you go, I'm a pretty big fan of the purple you're considering.

That being said, I'm not going to be the buyer and of course there's a reason we call it "Resale Red"....

Cheers,
Dutch

Dutch, that's exactly the direction the car was going when it was going to be Jackies new toy, and powered by a big killer Ford!!!! However, her brother found her dream car for her now, so I'm just going to go chebbie in a chebbie and pedal it.... The way it is now, the interior is grey cloth....and in quite good condition with a bit of shampooing and I'm just too cheap to tie a bunch of money up on upholstery for something I'm going to sell..... A big engine and stuff like that will usually bring a good return on investment....but the average buyer has no idea just how expensive quality upholstery work is and never wants to pay the extra $$$$$$ just cuz the car has it......

I like the idea of gray or charcoal metallic suspension/chassis with the purple body. Or do the chassis in purple too, maybe a shade or 2 darker for contrast. There's a bunch of different ways to go that would look good.

Well....maybe not "green stripes"