To Paint Original Lime Gold or non Orginal Nightmist Blue

[roddster]

  How about just painting it a color that is going to make you keep it 50 years?

[QuickSilverShelby]

       Its only original once. You can repaint it like original but the paint is not original and doesn't look original. My car came sunlit gold but was repainted blue. I went back to gold but put lemans stripes on it so it wouldn't look so plain. Just love it. Its nice to keep with original color but its not original. Go back or forward but don't get to hung up on the original thing. You can make it look like original but its only original once.

But it's not original.  The color has been changed and the owner loves Nightmist Blue.  Who cares what the original color was?  Life is way to short, do what your heart says.......Nightmist Blue!!

QSS

[shelbymann1970]

       Its only original once. You can repaint it like original but the paint is not original and doesn't look original. My car came sunlit gold but was repainted blue. I went back to gold but put lemans stripes on it so it wouldn't look so plain. Just love it. Its nice to keep with original color but its not original. Go back or forward but don't get to hung up on the original thing. You can make it look like original but its only original once.

But it's not original.  The color has been changed and the owner loves Nightmist Blue.  Who cares what the original color was?  Life is way to short, do what your heart says.......Nightmist Blue!!

QSS

+1  I would do the same thing with a 67 that I did with a 70 and a 68. The 70 was a rare drag pack 4 speed FB. i love many blues but HATE grabber blue. It went from GB to RED. My 68 came in HG. I hate dark green so it went black. don't care for white on black so the stripes went RED so since I did that then LeMans stripes came on it. I have owned and sold many Mustangs and did well with both cars when sold. 1 in 1990 and the other in 2013. I would have NOT enjoyed those cars as much in their factory color. To each their own. i only cringe where I see the rhetoric that you will hurt the value when it is said "across the board". Not always and sometimes enhances. Depends on the car.

[Side-Oilers]

^^^I agree^^^.  Red stripes over black looks killer!

[shelbymann1970]

^^^I agree^^^.  Red stripes over black looks killer!

Hardest part was what shade of red. I initially wanted Ford CA red to match my 70 Vert but it was too dark. We kept mixing with a PPG mixing machine until we got the right red that popped. Luckily my painter had a black Harley pickup to use  to "test" the contrast on a color sample spray out card. Stencil kit by Phoenix graphics to paint on the side stripes. The 68 was a crowd favorite. The 1997 SAAC world registry sleeve cover with a 68 with red stripes hooked me on the combo.  Gary

[Side-Oilers]

Really nice job!  Thanks for the details.   

[427heaven]

 Great looking cars! A wise old man once told me, No not CONFUSCIOUS.. I think his name was Jones, what will the people want after you have had your time with it! A lesson learned when some of my toys became so personal that the masses frowned at them. From then on I have stayed with more mainstream thoughts. Some colors just look better then others, even if you do a color change.