cheers mate it will be a proper colour change mate and it will only cost me the price of the paint mate as i paint car for living fella so there are good bits to the job and as for the cars originality mate a re-shelled it about one year ago because my last one was rotten and and the only good rs turbo shell i could get was a grey one and i hate grey so i painted it black but i am a picky git this is why i am doing it again