What color ?

[Gregster]

I only went to one show so far that I have'nt been asked the never ending question " What color are you going to paint it.... when you finish it ? " I know there has to be a really clever reply without coming off as a goober . I'm sure most of you have had the same question asked , how do you reply ?

 

[Lightning]

It is finished !

 

[fuzz]

They want to tell you what color to paint it. So be nice and ask them "What color would you paint it if is was yours?"..[cl

 

[Gregster]

I never really looked at it from that perspective , now that you mentioned it most people do tell you what color to paint it . I have told people it was painted in 1930 , no need to mess with perfection !

 

[hotrodron]

Is clear a color [S

 

[Sam_Fear]

Rust brown.

Sometimes it's a question to show interest from the less automotive informed. Like "what year is it?"

OR it's from the guys that think everything must be painted and new or it's garbage.

 

[CR55]

I just pick any color and tell em. They don't seem to comprehend an "unfinished" car!..CR

 

[Willowbilly3]

Plaid, or paisley

 

[Ol Blue]

My truck has flat gray PAINT on it so I go through it too. At a show yesterday I has several people comment that I had the hard part done. I just started to smile and agree rather than try to explain all the time.

 

[TiredIronGRB]

Translucent Microburst.

 

[Hollywood Eddie]

I just pick any color and tell em. They don't seem to comprehend an "unfinished" car!..CR

[cl

It's sad that the color is what they care about. But that's why we restore the oldies and they just don't get it[S

 

[cantwell.colton]

just go to sherwin williams online and find the most rediculous color name they have -- then tell them that color ---- homage to sunset or something.

 

[Willowbilly3]

I used to have people ask me what year my Harley was. for a while I replied, same year as Johnny Cash's Cadillac. Not one person ever got it. Now I thought that was darn clever at the time.
A good friend of mine drove a flat black chopped 48 F1 for years. He used to carry a rattle can of the same paint with him. When someone asked him when he was going to paint it, he would get the rattle can out and shoot a little on the fender and go "there, how's that"?

 

[HOT40ROD]

What color? I tried painting it two times but this thing is so fast the paint keep blowing off.

Or - I'm looking for a sponsor to paint it, You in?

Or Why paint it. It would hide all of my work.

 

[DA34GUY]

I tell em
" I couldn.t make up my mind, so I cleared the primer"

 

[moronthethrottle]

Fluorescent brown

 

[jfg455]

Get 'mad' and tell them "I just spent $10K on this faux patina paint job! It's the latest fad!" [cl

 

[bullet]

Easter Egg Pink & Blue [ddev

 

[ratphotog]

I was thinking of going with a nice textured brick red finish because I don't want it to look too much different than it does now.

 

[LarryH]

When i used to be asked that question about my gray primed, slammed '71 Cheyenne i just responded "It is painted" and left it at that.