Posted on 04/11/2007 6:21:10 AM PDT by eraser2005
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- As I drove north on the New Jersey Turnpike recently, a Mary Kay cosmetics saleswoman in a Cadillac DTS passed me on the right, her big car's paint job hitting me like a punch in the eye from the Pink Panther.
As it zoomed on past the car gradually changed color. Starting at the edges, the pink faded and turned to a pearly white.
Back in New York City, during the media preview days for the New York Auto Show in early April, I spent some time talking to Chris Webb, General Motors' Exterior Color and Trend Designer. He helped design the paint used on that car.
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Acuras have this beautiful black that I have never seen before and only have seen on Acuras. It’s supposed to have some type of flecks in it’s very slick and glossy looking.
But about taste in color: what's interesting is how mass-marketing seems to have quickened the pace at which we change our color preferences. Earth colors are in; earth colors are out; bright hues are cool, then they're not; yellow cars are the bomb for a year or two, then bright blue cars are big sellers. OTOH, if I go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or the Brooklyn Museum, and look at their wonderful collection of Egyptian artifacts, I see a color palette that remains unchanged for 3,000 years.
Yep...that assembly line looks like it received the good housekeeping seal of approval from OSHA...
But how will they sell bling on Escapades?
The one they used on the Mustang was much better...
“Did you read the whole article?”
Yes, but do you think it is not proper to point out the hideousness of purposely designing cars to have dull paint jobs?
“Not sure I would want my daily driver looking that way just yet.”
Maybe if you were mennonite?
Modern car colors are soooooooooooooooooooo boring.
Most of them are shades of silver, gray, black, white.
Borrrrrrrrrrrrrrring!!!
Couldn't let this one go by ...
Yesterday, on the Comedy channel, Jeff Foxworthy's "Blue Collar T.V., they did a bit where Foxworthy, Larry TCB and Ingval do some one liners .....
Larry said that the official state color for Mississippi was,
Primer.
I’ve noticed for a long time that Honda’s have really nice paint.
ah, primer and bondo-pink - reminds me of my first chevy.
Not really.
A flat finish is very very difficult to keep clean because the dirt and pollen and muck gets trapped into the small pores in the flat black finishes, and the flat blacks don’t weather as well as a reflective (smooth or glossy) black finish. Flat finishes tend to exaggerate the minor flaws in a surface too. A textured surface, though, tends to hide those flaws.
That’s why you almost always see metal rails and ornamental iron with a glossy black finish: that’s the best finish for reflecting UV rays
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Just paint it with Rhino-liner, more durable and it looks cool.
Lol. I always kind of liked primer, myself — except the two-tone primer look. You know, like when the guy paints his whole car with light gray primer, but then paints his passenger side door with rust-colored primer, or even worse, some gawd-awful baby blue. Then the look is too white trash even for me! You can build your car from parts purchased at the junkyard, just don’t let it look like it! :-)
Wow. Big deal.
Let’s see, I’ve been using Dupont flattener for oh......about 25 years now
Part # 4531S
Or there’s Glassurit semi gloss....or Flat clear coat...
Hell, you can flatten any clear (or single stage urethane color) to the desired level using a mixture of talcum powder and isopropal alcohol.
“Must be fun to try to touch up or paint match a repaired panel.”
It is no fun, believe me. I give my customers a price “range” and tell them to expect the worse. These colors / clears rely heavily on atmospheric conditions being the EXACT same if one has any hopes in matching OEM finishes.
Not me, nope, won’t happen. Will never buy a new car with an old paint job.
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