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What color to paint my car?

  • Brown/Gunmetal (w/Black Roof and A-pillar, no flake)

    Votes: 14 24%
  • Silver Moss (w/Black Roof and A-pillar, bass boat on steroids silver flake)

    Votes: 8 14%
  • Silver Moss (w/Black Roof and A-pillar, minor silver flake)

    Votes: 25 42%
  • Other Color (Please post color!)

    Votes: 12 20%

What color to paint my car?

9K views 68 replies 32 participants last post by  Jjaeger240  
#1 ·
So very soon I'm going to finally be purchasing the paint to have my car painted. However, I have now come across a delimna on what color to paint it. Please tell me which color you like better by voting and explaining.

Also, feel free to post recommended colors!!! (no solid blacks or whites though)

Note: No matter what color I do, I will be painting the roof and a-pillar black. If I choose the brown/gunmetal color, I will not put any flake on the roof and a-pillar. If I choose the silver color, I will be putting a lot of silver flake on the roof and a-pillar.

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Choice 1: Brown/Gunmetal

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Having no problems finding several wheel colors I like to match this body color unlike with the color below.
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Choice 2: Silver Moss

Same exact color (for the most part) as Your Mom's s13. You can see his thread with many more pics here: http://240sxforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=91483

Here are some pics of the paint....
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Also having difficulty finding a wheel color I like to match this color unlike the brownish/gunmetal choice.
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So please let me know what you like, or if you have your own suggestion. Thanks a bunch, I'm really stuck between a rock and a hard place.
 
#4 ·
ladiesman8527 said:
im diggin the silver moss.....dump some rainbow flake in it!
I'm not part of PG so I really don't want to imitate their cars. I like rainbow flake, but I've seen it done on every s13 and s14 body style with grey/silver color....some even twice. May want to take bits and pieces of colors/ideas from other cars, but not replicate.

ChrisCheezer said:
bmw imola red 2?
Not that big a fan of reds. Too bright of a color for me, not enough shades unless it's real deep and rich. There's been one blue car I liked the color of and I've been considering the paint, but only will do if there is overwhelming love for it.

This is the blue.
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#22 ·
Burned orange is played out. I was considering a purple but I couldn't find anything I liked that would be a "neat" color, instead of just an outright ****-looking color.

QuikSta said:
I dont know but if I were you and I was going to repaint my car I would go with the classic White with a blacked out roof and hood. I know you said not to suggest white but I think that Shiznit looks like the shiznitZ!!! Its not flashly at all and your already going to paint your roof black so kinda works then go with some gold wheels or something like that. thats my two cents hope you find something you like.
Don't like white. Nothing pops to it and everybody does it.

TomTomTuning said:
i think the Brown.gunmetal color will look alot better since your car is a fastback, but if you had a coupe id say the silver color.. . . .
I still am not 100% on what color i want to paint the coupe, its either leave it red, or a royal blue or royal purple.... i want some thing dark....
Any way.. good luck jessie
The more I think about it, the more I am leaning towards silver even though that Gunmetal is a rare color to see on any car, especially with a black roof. What's going on with your car nowadays anyway? Haven't talked to you in a while.

Initial Drift said:
Dakar Beige Metallic from a 2005 audi A6. At least thats the color I'm going with lol
Too yellow for me, I'd want to tint it a lot if I did it.

DMiller said:
BMW Montego Blue Metallic
If I could find something like it but darker, and richer I would definitely do it. Really looking for a color that will more closely compare with the blue I posted above (even though it's only that dark because it's in the shade).

rockdrummer027 said:
I vote 350z Le Mans Sunset Orange. Its quite a stretch from the colors you have posted but I saw a pic of it and loved it. I just want to see some other people do it before I do to see if it always looks this good:
Color is way too played out.

SAMW said:
I'd go with the silver and put black accents on it. But the gunmetal is hot too.
What do you mean black accents? Beyond the roof?

murphy said:
infiniti fx45 rootbeer brown metallic
Too dark for my tastes. Not enough "pop" to the color. Would look too OEM and just basic re-spray on my car.

isurfebay said:
that two tone mint chocolate chip thingy that came oem on some of the ca18's maybe
Once again, too played out and unoriginal. Plus it would be kind of wack to do on a fastback.

teknobuzz89 said:
I like the brown with the bassboat flake... Sorta reminds me of this color available on the xterra's i'll get a pic.
Like so:
I think the color is called Desert Stone Metallic but i remember it being more green... anyway looks pimp.
Nice find! If I go with that brown/gunmetal (or at least what I'm calling it) I will probably use that color as a base to then tint it to exactly what I'm looking for.

unwed_transient said:
i'm telling you, dookie brown with insane amounts of bassboat. it will drop panties.
I need a pic or something to give me a general idea of what that would look like.....STAT! I want to do something ridiculous with the paint. I have a pretty "bold" and aggressive-styled kit, I want bold colors, and ridiculous paint that pops, but isn't standout-ish bright colors. Hopefully that made sense?
 
#9 ·
I dont know but if I were you and I was going to repaint my car I would go with the classic White with a blacked out roof and hood. I know you said not to suggest white but I think that Shiznit looks like the shiznitZ!!! Its not flashly at all and your already going to paint your roof black so kinda works then go with some gold wheels or something like that. thats my two cents hope you find something you like.
 
#10 ·
i think the Brown.gunmetal color will look alot better since your car is a fastback, but if you had a coupe id say the silver color.. . . .

I still am not 100% on what color i want to paint the coupe, its either leave it red, or a royal blue or royal purple.... i want some thing dark....

Any way.. good luck jessie
 
#23 ·
And right now I am somewhat leaning more towards silver with black roof and somewhere in the middle of normal silver flake and bassboat on steroids amount of silver flake. My buddy wants to basically have matching paint now too (he has an s13 coupe). So we'll see what happens and what ideas you guys can pop up with these next couple of days. :thumbsup
 
#28 ·
I really like it, but I think I've officially settled on either the silver or the brown/gunmetal. That is unless there's a really random color that doesn't fit the context of anything posted so far (crazy purple, flaked out brown, etc.).