<VV> Re: Chromalusion paint

[Rad Davis]

Meh.

Cromalusion, and it's ancestor candy-apple lacquer have the same purpose: 
they make boring cars more visually interesting.  It's a relative of the 
"if it doesn't go, chrome it," philosophy.

If the car has strong lines and great bodywork, paint it a dark, solid 
color (or a dark fine-flake metallic) - black is fine, if a bit 
overdone.  People who know bodywork and paint will respect your confidence, 
even if they don't like your car.  The blacker the color, the more 
unforgiving it is of flaws of bodywork, paintwork or design.

If the car has smooth, rounded lines and a good silhouette, paint it white 
or some light color.  Pearls work well too.  Whites and pastels hide waves 
and bondo lumps better, too.

If the car has boring lines and/or bad bodywork, paint it with something 
silly that acts like the vehicular equivalent of loud floral wallpaper like 
chromalusion.  Then you can't see how dull the car is because of the 
violent color spray.  It's not an accident that factory two-tone and 
three-tone paint jobs were most popular in the Eisenhower era, when cars 
had big slab sides that needed to be broken up visually.

The reason the show car people go so nuts over this stuff is that they tend 
toward cars that just don't have very interesting lines - 32-36 Fords being 
a typical example.  Sadly, aerodynamic imperatives for fuel economy have 
made a lot of newer cars look boringly alike, and they tend not to have the 
strong lines of those built from 1935-1975.  They benefit from silly paint 
too, but then a Nissan Sentra needs all the help it can get in any case.

Painting something like a well-done '59 Chevy, '72 Ferrari Dino, or '38 
Talbot-Lago in Chromalusion is both a travesty and a waste of expensive 
bodywork.

It's not an accident that almost all serious art photography is done in 
monochrome.  You can't hide bad composition behind color when there isn't 
any color.

Corvairs are, luckily, more visually interesting than most of their 
competitors at the time.  We don't need stuff like this.  Falcon and dart 
owners do.

Make mine Danube blue, thanks.



At 12:49 PM 4/19/2006 +0200, Nick Elzinga wrote:
>Sheesh, how conservative you guys are.  No sense of adventure.  I suppose
>you follow the principle of any color as long as it's black?
>
>I love chromalusion paint and wouldn't hesitate to use it on a car such as
>my Citroen CX GTi Turbo 2 for instance.  I don't think it suits every car on
>the road, but it is finding favor in Europe and I'm sure it will find its
>way onto more and more cars in the future.
>
>Nick
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
>[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of cjcavitt at comcast.net
>Sent: 19 April 2006 09:44 AM
>To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>Subject: Re: <VV> Re: Chromalusion paint
>
>i agree,it looks cool on the nascar diecast cars that are out but i would
>rather show my car in primer before i painted it with chromalusion
>
>                                     Curt
>-------------- Original message --------------
>From: Taruffi57 at aol.com
>
> > Surely I am not the only one on here who thinks it is ghastly. You'll
>never
> > find it on any of my cars.
> >
> > Joe Dunlap
> > Florida
>
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