2004yjgto

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well does anyone know if china motors uh sorry I meant general motors ever built a pearl white GTO in 05/06??? I can't find anywhere that they did but I saw one that is supposedly a "factory color"

409CISecondGen

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Nope, there were no factory white GTOs. Several have been painted aftermarket lately. I know there's one for sale in central Texas.

mark21742

I've seen a few people painted white and I think they look great, but like 409 said none came from the factory like that

bedo

no but should have been a factory color..white look great on these cars

6PntHo

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I really wish they would have made them in white, they look so damn good.

joeyagls1

I am tempted to go from purple to white, it is more power or new paint job lol

mark21742

If you can do all the prep work a good white sealer is pretty cheap to get you a nice matte finish.

JNR_Design

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Unless you strip the car down completely, don't change the color so drastically...it would drive me nuts to have any remnant of the oem color left if I went with a different color...yuck. And on newer cars, like these, it seems the paint *everything*! I had a hard enough time going from the oem red (more like orange) to the red pearl metallic on my chevelle and couldn't imagine going totally different, even though everything visible was the new color and luckily on the older cars, they didn't use body color on everything.

As far as white, I used to really like that color and thought it looked good on these when I saw the firs tone somebody did a few years ago, but anymore not so much a fan (esp. considering the effort) as there as just too many other oem colors that look better IMO and are already done.

Pearl white is nice on some cars though, but is a real pita to try and match.

BMR Tech2

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I'm a huge fan of white on these cars. They have a lot of black trim so the white adds to the illusion of high contrast - something all of my cars have followed. So I would never say white is out of the cards for me...plastidip your car white and see if you like it. If you don't, peel it off and go on about your day.

- Kevin

joeyagls1

like are you talking about plasti dip stuff? like spray on paint that coems off?

04gto5.7

Yes but they also make vinyl car wrap

mark21742

I've never seen the thr plasti dip stuff on car bodies.....I was talking adout Samsung/preping the far and painting it with a white automotive sealer or even a zinc chromate paint like used on boat hauls.....you can get a number of light pastels as well as white in either type of these paints

409CISecondGen

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This one was plasti-dipped

Plasti-dip is neat stuff, but not exactly long lasting. If you wanted a permanent matte white paint job, I think what Mark21742 suggested would be the way to go.

joeyagls1

if I were to plasti-dip the car, it just peels offf, thats how that stuff works right? does not effect the paint at all? scratch it?

skidmarkSS

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i have see 2 white Manaro cars in the Tampa area,but never an 04-06 GT0 with that color on it.In Kuwait these cars were the Lumina SS cars,i considered buying one until i checked on conversion to stateside specs and what was involved bringing one back to the states.Silver and White are my fav colors on these cars.

thehazz12

White is overdone on these cars now. A large majority of people repainting their GTO's paint them white now. It's lost that special feel/look for me.

409CISecondGen

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It may seem over done to you, but your perspective is kind of skewed because people want to show off their new white paint jobs online. I have never seen white in person, if you paint your car white you will most likely never see another GTO that color in person.

Yes, plasti-dip just peels off and does not damage your paint so far as I can tell. It might contribute to more microscopic swirls, but most people have those pretty bad anyways, you will get those just from washing your car. The only way to really prevent those swirls is methodical hand washing and keeping your car in a garage and never driving it.

thehazz12

I know of 3 right now in St. Louis alone. Like I said, it's getting to be overdone.