Do modern colours look wrong on older fords?
06-03-2009, 08:34 PM
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Do modern colours look wrong on older fords?
my white 3 door is due a respray. I was thinking of keeping it white but going for the new generation of whites like you see on new audi's, bmw's, lambo's and the like...what do you think?
06-03-2009, 08:40 PM
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well mine is a 1957 with a 1998 BMW colour
in your case I would keep it the original white
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06-03-2009, 08:41 PM
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A new twist on the original colour is good.
06-03-2009, 08:46 PM
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deffo go for the new audi white.
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06-03-2009, 08:54 PM
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this colour is awesome too, Porsche Hellblau
06-03-2009, 09:05 PM
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Lambo orange,with black rims.
06-03-2009, 09:08 PM
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lambo orange does not suit the 3dr!!
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i dint think anything but the original colours suit cossies TBH.. to me they just look wrong.
06-03-2009, 09:17 PM
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i dint think anything but the original colours suit cossies TBH.. to me they just look wrong.
Agreed
06-03-2009, 09:20 PM
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lambo orange does not suit the 3dr!!
I think it would look great.Can someone do a photoshop?
06-03-2009, 09:20 PM
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06-03-2009, 09:21 PM
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i dint think anything but the original colours suit cossies TBH.. to me they just look wrong.
I kinda agree, but if you are using colours that are similar i thinkit looks good, ie, whites, greys, blacks etc not purples, oranges and stuff
06-03-2009, 09:30 PM
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I think it would look great.Can someone do a photoshop?
id say that was porche orange lol
i have seen a 3dr done in lambo orange.
that me decide not to mine the same
it was horrific
06-03-2009, 10:07 PM
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Yup ford frozen white is what you want!!
Get it done, don't follow the rest like a herd of sheep
06-03-2009, 10:10 PM
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i've just done my saph in frozen white. the difference between the two is unreal!! diamond white is a really creamy colour next to the frozen white.
06-03-2009, 10:12 PM
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06-03-2009, 10:13 PM
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White is white. WTF?
you get soooooooooooo many different shades of white m8.. the new frozen white is far brighter than diamond white!!
06-03-2009, 10:19 PM
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you get soooooooooooo many different shades of white m8.. the new frozen white is far brighter than diamond white!!
Any pics mate?
There was a pic floating around of two fiesta ST's parked nose to nose, one diamond white and one frozen white, the difference is amazing! Can't seem to find it now tho!
06-03-2009, 10:22 PM
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i've got a pic on me phone of the diamond white fuel cap against the frozen white wing but can't get it to the puter. i've posted pic's up in the sapphire section of the whole car..
06-03-2009, 10:26 PM
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forgot i had these pic's
top diamond white. bottom frozen white.
the mirror cap i'm holding is frozen white.
06-03-2009, 10:39 PM
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go for a Frozen white then park it in the middle of 2 other white 3drs and make them look like there smokers yellow
06-03-2009, 11:24 PM
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It's all in the colour temperature! Rightly, white is white. However, pure white is pretty hard to produce in paint, so you have to choose an approximation. Lower colour temperatures produce a warmer/redder shade (creamy), higher colour temperatures are bluer.
07-03-2009, 05:54 AM
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Dimond white looks dead creamy on my car but 2 of my mates have white escorts and the look whiter than my car.
07-03-2009, 06:47 AM
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audi white is lovely.my mate had his old s2 painted,strait out of the tin white.always looked gleaming,looked nicer when parked next to a diamond white s2 cos it wasnt creamy coloured
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07-03-2009, 07:41 AM
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i dint think anything but the original colours suit cossies TBH.. to me they just look wrong.
That's my thought as well. Go for say a whiter white for example, but stay with the 'base' colours Ford intended.
07-03-2009, 08:06 AM
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you want a white body that looks white in the snow. back in the day, my m8 had a rs turbo in white and a fiat in white pulled up next to him, made the rs turbo look yellow.
i think audi's new white is the way to go
07-03-2009, 09:32 AM
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If i was going white, i would use straight mixing white with no tints - easy to match and the purest.
07-03-2009, 11:42 AM
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If i was going white, i would use straight mixing white with no tints - easy to match and the purest.
thats what im painting my saff with. hopefully have the engine bay done tomorrow
07-03-2009, 11:48 AM
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I think it would look great.Can someone do a photoshop?
horrid. done a couple for fudge when he was trying to decide.
or my personal favourite, that i think he really should of done
07-03-2009, 12:12 PM
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I'd go either Audi white as said or...
Porsche Riviera Blue
or...
DBS Silver
07-03-2009, 12:32 PM
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i think modern colours can look good,heres a fella i knows escort cossie.it started off malard green but the went renault spyder (remember them?) yellow and now its st electric orange.the pics not to good as it was just before it snowed
07-03-2009, 04:09 PM
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get it done in audi white...chekout the respray my sisters bf got done on his car...pics doesnt do it justice
we'r awaiting black smoked lights n other lil bits n pieces which are being imported frm the us of a!
07-03-2009, 04:18 PM
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It's your choice but you'll deffinately lower the value of your car by re-spraying it in a non genuine colour.
07-03-2009, 04:22 PM
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Kepp it white but use a whiter white as said
07-03-2009, 04:23 PM
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White is white. WTF?
yeh and ignorance is bliss
There are about 40 shades of just diamond white alone.
White is white, but if your chossing a colour or even more importantly if your matching then white is not white!
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get it done in audi white...chekout the respray my sisters bf got done on his car...pics doesnt do it justice
we'r awaiting black smoked lights n other lil bits n pieces which are being imported frm the us of a!
car doesnt do the audi white justice
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i reckon a new matalic colour like the red on the new focuses
07-03-2009, 04:41 PM
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car doesnt do the audi white justice
only because itsa honda
06-03-2009, 08:34 PM
Do modern colours look wrong on older fords?
