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Is it just my eyes or what?

Lowhound

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Iv been tryin to decide on a color for my 70 Superbee. Iv narrowed my choices to Plum Crazy or Panther Pink as of now.But I have a question thats bugging me. Il see pics of the pink Mopars & in my eyes some have a lighter tint than others & some look deeper and shinyer. Is it just me or maybe the lighting on the pics Iv looked at that makes them look different to me.
 
I had similar question last year after repainting my 69' Plum crazy. I asked someone who told me that the final color depends on the primer. He showed me two plum crazy cars (This was at the Mopar national in Carlisle, PA) One with a gray primer and one with a black primer. The Gray primer car was a little lighter and the black primer was darker. I assume that goes for all colors. As far as the shine that can depend on how many coats of clear,wet sand,polish,etc...
 
Anything sporting the original lacquer paint will look considerably different than a more modern paint with clear coat.
 
I built a '68 Mustang a few years back and the color was a copper pearlcoat but every picture of that car made it look red. If you saw the car in person, you'd never mistake it for red, but the camera shows what the camera shows. I would hit a few car shows, see the cars in person and ask how and with what they were painted. Yes, it's time consuming, but it's about the only way to be certain to eliminate the digital distortion.
 

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68x426 on here has a gorgeous orange RR that shows up the nicest looking red you thought you ever saw in a photo. He posted several pics on a thread here re: show us your car and then I saw it in person at mopar alley 2011 and the shade looks deep clear coat hemi orange. Lighting outside and reflections play a huge role.

Want to see a cool trick? Take a car with a nice red paint job and set up a 4 leg red opaque shiny polyethylene plastic shade tent above the car. You know the kind that can stretch a bit? If the car has a shiny finish it reflects the red from above and the paint on the car looks wetter and deeper than you could imagine. Saw that at a show a few years back and was impressed.
 
Yes Panther Pink is tricky, It either comes out looking like pepto bismol OR it looks more "neon" pink and the "neon" pink looks the best! the mixer does make a difference just as stated above, Primer color, how many coats of base.
 
not only does primer color effect final color tones,but how well the paint is layed down and even quality of paint will change it.pictures never due great paint jobs any justice.i sold a 71 pontiac lemans sport convertable couple years ago with a 10k paint job on it that didnt show in any of the pics.just looked puple and was tri tone paint(blue purple and gold)
 
X2 on what Brian said. The factory paint back then was a single stage. Modern cars are painted with a base/clear which will look different. If it was me I'd stay with the Plum Crazy. If you ever go to sell the Bee you will narrow your field of buyers with the Pink. In the end basically go with what you want but definately do some test sprays. Good luck!
 
Lowhound,
The Plum Crazy is cool. Especially with a black vinyl roof!
This is my 70 Bee, taken a few years ago. It's almost ready to "rumble" with the 70 Hemi.
 

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Whenever I restore an old car, my last coat of primer is pretty close to the color that I'm painting, for instance this Dart is Plum Crazy, so I add a purple toner to my primer. You have to be careful, because not all primers can do this.

Then when I seal it, it's pretty much the same color as the primer.
After the car is painted, if it gets a rock chip a year or two later, it's less noticeable.

What you put under your color and clear is very important.
 

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To get the true color you chose, a spray out card should be used. For those of you not in the paint business, a spray out card is a black and white cardboard sheet that a painter uses to determine how many coats it takes to get true coverage. He will spray subsequent coats until he can't see any transparency through the colour (black or white). This eliminates problems with the colour looking lighter when sprayed over a gray sealer as an example. Last complete I sprayed was a corvette red, and I would have likely only sprayed 3 coats of base as the coverage looked good, but using the spray out card with a weak colour like this red had me spray another two coats to achieve the true colour and excellent hiding of the undercoat. It's never a bad idea to use a sealer that matches closely to the topcoat colour as this helps with getting coverage quicker.
Sorry for the long winded explanation, I felt it may help explain why colors chosen don't always appear as they should. Metamerism is another issue, but I'll save that for another rant...lol
 
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