what do you think about yellow

[winstontj]

Like it... not love it but it's a solid choice and if anyone can pull it off it's you! I'm a fan of Fjord blue.

Not to totally change the direction of the thread but....

A suggestion is that you lay a base coat of jet black under the yellow. Prime normal but apply your first coat in black....

[KFunk]

If it were mine.... I'd go with riviera, the original color.

Someday when things settle down, It'll be nice to put a fresh coat on it.

now, the car's white and i will be stripping it down to metal, shooting the entire body, in & out

seeing chris willetts beautiful 1600 listed on ebay makes me want to stay white but a wimbledon white rather than the brighter arctic white...(no advertising...it's just a gorgeous car)

I'd rather have white over that glasurit yellow.

The problem with the glasurit is the orange hue. It gives the yellow a darkier, nastire look. Kind of like when you mix a dab of ketchup into some cheap yellow mustard. ewwwww.

You could go with a yellow that has more of a white base instead of an orange base. It'll be nice and shiny, but probably too bright and flashy.

I guess if I wanted to go for a nice classy color fit for a girl, I'd go with kind of a pearlescent metallic color.

I know some folks feel that period-correct 02 colors are the only way to go, but for the majority of folks I come across in the real world, rarely would anyone be able to tell the difference, nor care. I'm not even old enough to remember what colors might be period correct for my car. It's 7 years older than me.

If you're not concerned about the concours, I'd just rather have a really nice lookin car.

[esty]

A suggestion is that you lay a base coat of jet black under the yellow. Prime normal but apply your first coat in black....

i've been told that before by a few experienced painters...if i go with yellow, i'd use a black primer as the ground coat

[AlCanuck]

One of the coolest 02's we ever had in the shop was a Golf Yellow M2. I LOVED that car, and wanted one ever since. Yellow is a great colour on an 02. That said, no matter what colour you choose, I'm sure you'll hack the shit out of the poor little 02 anyway. Snide enough for you?

Al

[eastsidebimmer]

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[esty]

I'd rather have white over that glasurit yellow.

The problem with the glasurit is the orange hue. It gives the yellow a darkier, nastire look. Kind of like when you mix a dab of ketchup into some cheap yellow mustard. ewwwww.

You could go with a yellow that has more of a white base instead of an orange base. It'll be nice and shiny, but probably too bright and flashy.

I guess if I wanted to go for a nice classy color fit for a girl, I'd go with kind of a pearlescent metallic color.

I know some folks feel that period-correct 02 colors are the only way to go, but for the majority of folks I come across in the real world, rarely would anyone be able to tell the difference, nor care. I'm not even old enough to remember what colors might be period correct for my car. It's 7 years older than me.

If you're not concerned about the concours, I'd just rather have a really nice lookin car.

lol...i think mr blunt was pulling my pigtail abiout it being glasurit and i play'd along...it's not glasurit, just a color sample i found that i happen to like..

i'm agree with you the bright...i had a 65 mustang that was the color of the one i'm picturing and that is probably what i'll end up doing...

the only thing i consider when restoring a car i plan to keep is that, in some way, it stands out in a crowd...not necessarily universally appealing...just a slight WOW factor has to be there

[esty]

what do you think about TAMPICO

i like it a lot but there's not much WOW there...it would just blend in, in my opinion....that said, i love florida, which i also thinks a bland color yet love...someone else was talking about painting their car florida recently...maybe pat sloan

florida reminds me of my 1st car, a 59 ford fairlane...it was close to florida, perhaps a smidge darker

what about florida and british racing green or jade green, 2-toned like my 76?

[TobyB]

so the $300 d/d fixer is gonna go something close to that.

Partially because we have most of the other colors,

and wouldn't want to confuse each other...

t

[jgerry2002]

What about trying paint code 003 - Corn Yellow. Never seen an '02 in person with that, but its a factory '02 color.

[cj]

It looks like GM Butternut yellow in my opinion.

Cris

[Marty]

Golf was a pretty rare color at the time, but you see a lot of golf cars now because it's a color you can see 2 miles away same with Inka.

[KFunk]

Click here to see a nice vibrant shade of yellow:

http://www.miata.net/gallery/images/92yellow.jpg

Thats Sunburst Yellow that they put on a very limited run of miatas in 92. I doubt it'd look that great on an 02, but just an option I thought I'd throw out there if you're really wantin yellow.

[esty]

http://www.miata.net/gallery/images/92yellow.jpg

Thats Sunburst Yellow that they put on a very limited run of miatas in 92.

i like that better than the color i pictured...it's softer but still grabs you

[Timbo]

It looks like GM Butternut yellow in my opinion.

Cris

Looks like Manilla to me and I like it. Subtle and way cool just like Florida. New MINI have a colour called 'pepperwhite' that I think would look good on an 02 - it has a little more yellow & black in it than chamonix

[Mike Self]

--esp since Turf is a (not well known) '69 color. Do the green down the sides between the beltline moulding and the window sills, continuing along the crease on the hood and deck lid edges. Similar to Lotus Cortina color schemes from the 60s...

mike