Painting my cougar

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Painting my cougar

October 19, 2004, 07:46:41 PM

Well I'm almost ready to have my car painted I just need to decide on some colors. I want to go with a two tone paint job but I can't decide what colors to use. I'm thinkin silver and some other color. Any suggestions would help. Oh its an 87 and the interior is blue. the new smilies are way better :flame: I'll post some pix as soon as i take some.

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Reply #1 – October 19, 2004, 08:16:48 PM

silver and black, or silver and a nice blue would look good IMO

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Reply #2 – October 19, 2004, 08:28:15 PM

What kind of scheme are you looking at? Have you done any drawings?

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Reply #3 – October 19, 2004, 08:35:40 PM

Quote from: bq93

Have you done any drawings?

good point, you should try photoshopping something, or come up with a sketch, and have one of us photoshop it for u

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Reply #4 – October 19, 2004, 08:49:14 PM

Well, I would suggest pearl white or almond above the molding and metallic gold under the molding if you had a tan interior.

Here you go, I took this pic of my white XR-7 before I bought it. I figured it would be easy to work with in an image-editing program so you could try different colors.

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Reply #5 – October 20, 2004, 07:57:40 AM

I would have to say:
Sparkling silver metallic with Dodge Viper GTS blue..

At first I wasn't going to use silver. my original plan was pearl white, but then when I went to buy the paint and flipping through the book the silver just jumped out at me, compared it beside the viper blue and I knew that was the perfect 2 tone combination..

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Reply #6 – October 20, 2004, 03:24:25 PM

Here are the pix. Feel free to photoshop these if anyone wants to.

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Reply #7 – October 20, 2004, 03:25:45 PM

They didn't attach, if that's what you were trying.

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Reply #8 – October 20, 2004, 08:41:30 PM

Woah!!! Low Cat indeed. :)

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Reply #9 – October 23, 2004, 09:41:38 AM

Well i think i have narrowed it down. I either want a two tone blue and silver or all black. Now i just need to decide where i want to break up the colors at. I am thinking at the molding like cougars 2 go or at the upper body line. Anyone have any opinions?

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Reply #10 – October 23, 2004, 09:50:33 AM

But nobody would expect a tan cat in a race =)

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Reply #11 – October 23, 2004, 11:14:36 AM

Or two tone brown :)

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Reply #12 – October 23, 2004, 01:16:40 PM

Quote from: Rwolf

But nobody would expect a tan cat in a race =)

Thats true but I don't think the ol' 3.8 is going to allow that.
3.8= :barf:
5.0= :D

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Reply #13 – October 23, 2004, 07:12:52 PM

Two-tone blue and silver is *close* to what I had in mind for my Bird.. but I was thinking dark charcoal for the bottom color instead. Also thinking of mixing in some gray/silver in the interior. Then again, the blue of my Bird might not be the blue you had in mind.. heh.

Maybe one of these days I can coerce one of the people here who are far better with Photoshop-type programs than I am into changing the latest pic of my Bird into that color scheme. Might give you all some ideas.. might steer you away, too. :D

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Reply #14 – October 23, 2004, 10:00:41 PM

I don't even have photoshop. If I did I would have tried, but I am thinking a light colored silver on the bottom half and a dark metalic blue on the top half of the car.