gents: dark colors have a tendency to "shrink" things, visually-speaking. it is not the color itself that highlites or hides the flaws, it is the gloss or shine, and you will not be painting it Flat, so any color will show anything if you look at it carefully enough. It is not the Paint but the Preparation of the Surface BEFORE painting. So just paint it any color, it will look awesome, whether or not it was offered in 1955. Forget about Pebble Beach, those people never turned a wrench in their life, they bought their cars already done by a Craftsman and then they go "show" them. Trailer Queens they call them. I like yellow cars myself, even though I don't have a yellow car. Use Enamel for a thick coat that will hide many flaws, that's what they painted cars with in 1955 all over the world. forget about modern lacquers, or nitro-cellulose, or none of that "expensive" stuff. Why bother? they are so expensive they can only spray a thin coat. Don't you just love the painted nails of the ladies? Enamel Enamel Enamel Enamel! Instead of a Metallic finish, I would give it a Pearlized finish, regardless of color. I saw the strangest 1983 XJ-6 Cream color the other day, (coffee with cream color, in the brown family of colors), I had never seen that color before, must be very rare. There's your color. Ex
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