<VV> Original color or not?

[Rick & Janet Norris]

And here's another important reason to have a white car, pointed out by my 
wife. As we men know, women look at things entirely different than we do. (I 
finally learned this!)
While at a car show it does not matter what color the car on either side of 
you is, your car will look good. My wife would often point out at car shows 
how bad some cars looked when parked side by side due to clashing or 
offsetting colors. I never noticed because being a typical guy I was focused 
on the cars one at a time. She saw them as a whole.
Her pet peeve at shows is when a Chevy for instance is painted a bright red 
and the engine is typical GM orange. It clashes big time! Even though I 
explain to her that is the way the factory painted them it still looks bad 
overall. It really looks good on a Plumb Purple Mopar with an orange engine 
block!

Rick Norris
First President CORSA 1971
Email rickjanet@charter.net
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> Ron,
>
> My '66 Monza 'vert is Ermine White also and is in the body shop now  for a 
> new paint job. I really like color and had always planned on changing the 
> color of my car to reflect that. However, I decided to keep the car white 
> and introduce color by changing the interior from black to red. I may also 
> add some pin striping or graphics to the outside to add more color.
>
> Here are the reasons why I chose to stay with white: it is very forgiving 
> of imperfections in the body, white is easier than a dark color to get 
> back to looking good after it gets dirty, and least important,  it is the 
> original color. Red looks good, but I think it is overdone.
>
> I also plan to pick a white from a present day car, so if I have a small 
> boo boo to fix, I can go to Autozone and pick up a can of touch up paint 
> to fix it. You may want to think about that if you decide to create your 
> own color.
>
> Please don't think I'm trying to convince you to keep your car white, I'm 
> mostly trying to convince myself that white is the color I want on my car 
> :o).
>
> Marc Sheridan
> '66 Monza 'vert
>
>
> RKAT wrote:
>
>>It's still a ways off, hopefully this spring and it will be ready. My
>>Corsa was/is originally Ermine White. I definatley want to change the
>>color. Do most of you stick with a color that was produced the year of
>>your car? Or did you say, heck with it, it's mine, I'm gonna paint it
>>whatever color I feel like! ?  I'm thinking of staying with a 66 color..
>>Ron Tinkham
>>66 Corsa Convertible