<VV> Now paint colors

[Rad Davis]

I can't agree more.  I've also been surprised that a late looks good in 
white, black, yellow, etc.  It helps that GM had an excellent bunch of 
colorists in those days.  Many hues used by other companies seem to miss 
the mark - the mopar yellows were usually too brown, for instance (unless 
you go back into the '50s, when they were too butter-colored).

I think my least favorite late colors are the browns and greens from 68-69 
and the reds for most years (too bluish).  There's a maroon I'm not too 
fond of.  Other than those, most late colors tend to be good on all of the 
body styles.  I grew up around a medium blue (originally Danube) '65 
convertible (white top), and have had red and yellow late coupes over the 
years.  All looked pretty good.  The Red car is actually paint-coded white 
(black interior), but got repainted somewhere along the way.  I've thought 
about putting it back stock, (after it leaves group red, of course), but I 
think I'd have to have the Yenko stripes to save me from feeling like I was 
driving a rental car or a pimpmobile in training.

The earlies have a sort of standing-up-on-their-toes perkiness.  I've 
generally liked the looks of earlies in lighter colors or with strong 
contrast colors in the interior.  The white/red and black/red combinations 
look nice, as do the bright metallic blues (which were also quite 
popular).  The coupe is definitely my favorite of the early body styles 
because it's so unapologetically a coupé
  (which is French for a cut-down sedan body).

'60s came in both a nice robin's egg blue and a pretty decent red, among 
some other less-exciting colors.  The less-vibrant interior colors on the 
cave-vairs tend to make the bright exteriors look good.  I'm sad to say 
that I don't like the chrome stripe on the 700s - it's painting 
Shakespeare's lily.  Apparently I'm not the only one, since they didn't 
carry it over to the Monza. But if you park even the plainest mouse-fur 
gray '60 'vair beside a '60 valiant, the vair looks like great art by 
comparison.

Thank you Harley Earl for hiring Bill Mitchell.  And thanks to Bill 
Mitchell for the Corvair!


At 01:36 PM 4/19/2006 -0400, tkalp at cox.net wrote:

>When I was looking at colors to paint my LM Corvairs, I was amazed to find 
>that a LM Corvair looks great in light colors and dark colors, bright 
>colors and subdued colors. The only "bad" color I have seen is beige with 
>primer spots (sorry Ned). Before the EM guys get in an uproar I have never 
>had to pick a color for an EM so the pattern may hold there also.  It says 
>a lot for the design of the Corvair.
>
>Terry Kalp
>
>http://members.cox.net/rarevair/corvair.htm
>
>  _______________________________________________

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