Paint & Body Work - need color suggestion having car repainted




BKDZ28
07-21-2011, 12:11 PM
Just looking for a few suggestions. My car is MMM Monterey Maroon Metallic. Got into and accident and will be getting the whole car painted. I'm looking for a color close to what I have since I'm not having engine by done etc.... I do like the new camaro color
Red jewel tint coat
And also the ctsv color
Crystal red tint coat

Just looking for advice I do love mmm but would like to be alittke different maybr just more metallic so it flips on all the creased and bends. Thanks in advance


Cwillits505
07-21-2011, 01:01 PM
crystal red cadillac... sexy as hell... also, depending on your budget, if you are looking for metallic and have a painter EXPERIENCED enough.. look at some HOK candy's... they have some SICK dark red/wine metallics..

BKDZ28
07-21-2011, 06:37 PM
I agree, HOK makes some amazing colors.


pillarpod
07-21-2011, 07:25 PM
^^^^^x3

FastRidesOnly
07-28-2011, 02:34 PM
if i'm gonna paint a car, i'd rather do a aftermarket color so it gets recognition.

BKDZ28
07-30-2011, 11:55 AM
I ended up choosing a Mitsubishi color red pearl metallic. It's 2 stage where most of the other paints I liked we 3 stage. Only a couple of shades different from my MMM.

Camarosteve44
07-30-2011, 12:04 PM
if i'm gonna paint a car, i'd rather do a aftermarket color so it gets recognition.

+1 if your going to spend the money for a paint job, at least let it be noticible.

BKDZ28
07-30-2011, 12:59 PM
Unfortunately my money tree is bare! Alot more money for a 3 stage paint job and also don't want to change the color to drastically. Because engine bay will look stupid.:barf:

LT4vert
07-30-2011, 01:10 PM
Unfortunately my money tree is bare! Alot more money for a 3 stage paint job and also don't want to change the color to drastically. Because engine bay will look stupid.:barf:

....and both Red Jewel and especially Crystal Red are quite a bit lighter than Monteray. I know ya already made the color selection, but, a good OEM GM color match to the Monteray with the characteristics you were describing woulda been the 03 50th anny Vette color. It was a 1 year only color for this car and darker than Magnetic Red, Crystal or Red Jewel.

http://webspace.webring.com/people/lt/t_lutterbie/Corvette/Corvette_Top_Down.jpg

BKDZ28
07-30-2011, 02:08 PM
That color looks amazing in the sun. I'll post picture later tonight of the color . Thank you for your input

BKDZ28
07-30-2011, 02:45 PM
Just looked up that Corvette paint its a 3 stage also :(

BKDZ28
07-30-2011, 08:07 PM
couldnt find any pictures in the sun. Has plenty of metaliics and flips to candy red

WhiteKnight '01
07-30-2011, 08:11 PM
I remember when I bought my Camaro, I didn't really care what color it was. I just wanted a low mileage LS1, from '01 or '02. So I chose arctic white, not caring much about the color, more about the car itself. While that remained true for awhile, I began to realize that "arctic white" is pretty plain jane, and doesn't look that great. The car just sorta...blends in. I have seen lots of colors I would rather have my car, the factory blue that the G8's have is nice, black is good, the sunset orange metalic, commonly seen on the trans am's and corvettes is nice.

only good thing about white is it's a good summer color. Living in the deep south it gets hotter than hell out, I know having white helps decrease the heat immensely. For that I am thankful that my car is white.