Painting the speedster

Does anyone have a speedster painted in more then just one color Im thinking about colors and styles.

I think I would like to do something different like a gaurds red on top that gradually turns to a tan from the wheel wells down.

Just an idea, but may be to much on such small car?

Have you looked at some of the old race-car pics? Some of those were virtual two-tone jobs when they highlighted the trunk or light/fender tunnels... Are you contemplating this on a classic body or a widebody speedster?

If it is a classic body you will need to deal with the belt line trim and lower moldings as these may interupt your color transitions.

If you are thinking about a widebody speedster I'd think the sky's the limit with all the extra curves that lend themselves to a painter's fancy...

What about a lower body guards red that morphs into a bright yellow, sort of a tequila sunrise... or solid red lower and then a ghost red upper so it undulates in the light?
MM

What about this one I think it might work with some adjustment, but something on this order is what Im trying to work out


www.mcmullenargus.com/gallery/view.asp?image=27837&pub=5

I tried to download picture but couldn't do it, but you can cut and paste to take you to a picture of a corvette stingray maco

I like this effect but maybe with different colors so that it isn't just a rip off of someone elses idea
(Message Edited 10/8/2003 7:16:16 PM)

Explain what you mean by "ghost" effect .....I am planning classic
(Message Edited 10/8/2003 7:19:04 PM)

Are you guys referring to the Chameleon Paints manufactured by John Kosmoski's House of Color? Those paints were designed for use as graphics, but I've seen quite a few custom cars covered in it. Fairly expensive stuff at nearly $200/qt.
Check out the entire line of paints offered by Hse of Colors. My race helmet has some "marbilizer" and it looks BITCHIN'

When I was in highschool (Dallas) in the 1950's a girl friend's dad had a split-window 1300 Super coupe that was painted cream and orange. The base color was orange and the cream was rear decklid, top, and front trunk lid - it looked very sassy.

Tex Ashe (one of the guys in the sportscar club) had a J2X Cad-Allard that was black with a similar red treatment; it had matching red interior with red Rudge knock-off wire wheels and two side mounted spares.

Two tone paint jobs can be very neat if properly done.

I looked at the files section and couldn't find anyone here with a picture of anything other then one color on whole car maybe it just isn't very common......Guys how do you think the maco style paint job(see above web location for example) would look on a speedster except done in red as the primary color and maybe a grey silver interior that matches the bottom of the car

Steven,

Here are a couple of Speedsters with multiple colors although not of the shaded style you describe but more in the vintage/competitive style. I may be able to find a few more in my files if your interested.

The Corvette looks interesting in that paint combination. I don't know how it would look on a Speedster. It's probably an expensive venture, and I would want to be very sure of my choices before I went ahead.

But, I guess that is true of any colour choice, isn't it? I'd keep searching for more pictures of two tone cars until I was quite sure of what I wanted.

I once had an MG-TD that I was going to do two tone - body one colour, fenders and running boards another. But a car such as that has a definite separation between distinct body panels. I ended up going with a solid colour. I had seen some older MG's that were two tone, and they looked okay, but as two tone was not an original TD paint choice, I stayed traditional.

However, it's all personal choice.

How about this paint job for a Speedster? I think it looks fantastic.

www.worldviewdesign.com/vonsaustinhealey/racing.htm

imho---"don't do it", i don't think speedster lines lend themselves
to your described design. solid, deep, good quality single color.

If you want a paint job to turn heads look at the one below. It was done in good taste. It would be the talk of the town.

Check out JPS website, he used to have a picture of his Batmobile in there. Big white center stripe front to back, melding into the rockers at each end. Lots of early competition speedsters and spyders had those little contrasting spears over the front and rear fenders.

Has anyone ever seen some well done pin stripes? I agonized over them but can't quite decide. No natural body feature lines for the stripes to highlight!

There is a type of paint that contains little-teeny-tiny-itsy-bittsy pieces of mica. It is a mineral that casts light reflections or refractions in such a way that colors change with different light...
I think that's the way it happens, anyway, you can do all sorts of cool things with it in tandem with other painter's magic too...so you could have tight little sparkles or plain opague colors that change.

The painter's son where I've been having some work done has a silver '64 El Camino with two stripes over the hood...sometimes the stripes look almost black, but in a different light they glow sort of blue-green-teal and then to purple.

IMHO a little goes a long way. There was a car at the show I was in last month that was way too overdone for me...it went from green to copper and purple and stuff and had lots of little scoops and floopy-doos that were highlighted nicely by this paint's characteristics, but two things of great importance no matter what sort of paint you use... Good prep and Good prep.

This show car had little foibles deep into the finish that made me think that Pepe my long-nose-haired friend from Vintage did some of the work!

MM
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Steve, A red to a tan in a gradient type blend painting technique probably won't look good. Though might be just different. I have seen a new VW beetle where they started with a white and shaped to the back to a powder blue. It was different. Below is what we did with one of our race cars.

Joe, the color gradations are neat looking, too bad all that sponsor stuff had to get in the way! (LOL)
Maybe a light, light white-ish yellow that bleeds back to golden orange then a redder orange as it gets back to the doors and then the tail of the car gets brilliant red...like a comet...the speedsters body lines could handle a front to back transition more dramatically than top to bottom? Yes/No, maybe so?
Blazing saddle meets Blazing speedstar!
MM

I like some of those examples but I don't think I have the guts to go that wild .....Im looking for something more subtle or gentle nothing to outlandish.....unless I find an example already done, I will go with one color, I probably wont have the nerve to try something completely different, but keep your eye out for anything you see or may have Im very interested if I find the right look

Oh god I think Im turning into a traditionalist!!!!

Come over to the dark side, Lukewarm...

Your car itself will be an 'attention getter' so whether you covet the dark-side or skip merrily along the yellow brick road, you're gonna have a winner!

Don't overlook Viper yellow... it looks racy and is one color with a lot of depth and it looks good trimmed out with chrome and black or chrome and aluminum/stainless appointments, ie. top, tonneau, snaps, bumper tirm etc... and all your badging will show up cool.

VSOP (?) in the files is that color. It is a good convertible statement color.
MM

Sounds like Steven, may have a Maco shark paint skeem in mind.

Starting with one color high up fadeing in another on the sides or down low ,like the corvette had.

Steven:

Here's an interesting silver and green paint combination.

www.aircooledtubs.com/356Car1.html

That's not interesting...that's ugly!

I don't comment on the news, I just report it ;-)

that green one almost looks like a bra ......no thank you ......but it was at least different..