Jay Herbert
Enthusiast
The first fully painted panel on the (never ending) project Viper is the sports cap. It's really not done, only has the first coat of clear shot. A few more clears, color sanding, polishing, etc... to go, but it is still a milestone.
Colors are Brazen Orange Metallic and Cashmere metallic for the stripes. Ed described the painting process as follows. Sprayed the stripe color, thought it was going to look awful, sprayed the orange, still thought it was going to look awful, sprayed the clear.... holy [*****], this is the most beautiful thing I've ever painted. When he told me this, he followed up with "How did you choose these colors? Either you are really good, or really lucky". I had to laugh.
I choose the orange after an agonizing two months of flopping from color to color. Trust me, when you can paint your car ANY color you want, verses the few factory selections, it is TOUGH to choose the color. I looked at motorcycles, cars, even big rigs, spent hours and hours at car lots, and browsing paint chip books. I saw a Cobra painted in a Nissan Z orange, thought it looked great. One day a new Pontiac GTO passed me on the interstate and I knew I found my color. Followed him for a while and when he pulled of for gas, I did too. Turned out to be a 2006, one year only color (since this is the last year of the GTO) brazen orange metallic.
The stripe color I owe to my wife. I carried home a bunch of color books from the paint supplier and we chose the stripe one evening. but when I looked at it in the AM, I just did not like it. So on the way to work, I stopped at the gym and asked her to look again, we set the book out on the hood of the car, pulled out the brazen orange page and started looking for a new stripe color. As we were just flipping though the pages she said "stop, that's it". We placed the orange next to it and I said "Yep, that's it". Two months to pick the main color, ten minutes in a parking lot to pick the stripe color. It pays to have a wife that is an artist.
If you made it this far, I'm going to tell you, both of these colors look much different in "real life" than in pictures, and I think that is why not a lot of GTO's were made in the brazen orange. In real life it is spectacular, orange, but gold at the same time. In pictures, it just is "orange". I know many will not like it, but I think it's cool.... and it's my car
LOL
Primer is going down on the hood today, stripes tomorrow, and if the weather holds, body color and clear early next week.
Colors are Brazen Orange Metallic and Cashmere metallic for the stripes. Ed described the painting process as follows. Sprayed the stripe color, thought it was going to look awful, sprayed the orange, still thought it was going to look awful, sprayed the clear.... holy [*****], this is the most beautiful thing I've ever painted. When he told me this, he followed up with "How did you choose these colors? Either you are really good, or really lucky". I had to laugh.
I choose the orange after an agonizing two months of flopping from color to color. Trust me, when you can paint your car ANY color you want, verses the few factory selections, it is TOUGH to choose the color. I looked at motorcycles, cars, even big rigs, spent hours and hours at car lots, and browsing paint chip books. I saw a Cobra painted in a Nissan Z orange, thought it looked great. One day a new Pontiac GTO passed me on the interstate and I knew I found my color. Followed him for a while and when he pulled of for gas, I did too. Turned out to be a 2006, one year only color (since this is the last year of the GTO) brazen orange metallic.
The stripe color I owe to my wife. I carried home a bunch of color books from the paint supplier and we chose the stripe one evening. but when I looked at it in the AM, I just did not like it. So on the way to work, I stopped at the gym and asked her to look again, we set the book out on the hood of the car, pulled out the brazen orange page and started looking for a new stripe color. As we were just flipping though the pages she said "stop, that's it". We placed the orange next to it and I said "Yep, that's it". Two months to pick the main color, ten minutes in a parking lot to pick the stripe color. It pays to have a wife that is an artist.
If you made it this far, I'm going to tell you, both of these colors look much different in "real life" than in pictures, and I think that is why not a lot of GTO's were made in the brazen orange. In real life it is spectacular, orange, but gold at the same time. In pictures, it just is "orange". I know many will not like it, but I think it's cool.... and it's my car
LOL
Primer is going down on the hood today, stripes tomorrow, and if the weather holds, body color and clear early next week.
