Thread: for those who have an eye for such things!!!!

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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"