Firebird Paint

[cantrip]

Im getting my dads 97 firebird. Its a chameleon green right now but its kind of fading, doesnt change much anymore. My friends dad is going to start painting cars in thier backyard. All i have to do is pay for the paint and he will do it for me. I want either a chameleon color, or a sunset orange. It would be helpful if anyone has any ideas, pictures, or websites they know that have paint for sale. I know most of you will probably tell me to paint it a basic color like, black or red or something but i want it to be different, but still look good. I plan on getting black rims so i want those to work with the color also.

[Fireball27]

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This may just be pointing out the obvious but i dunno.. maybe you're stupid? Have you tried washing/waxing/and polishing the car?

If you go with the paint then stick with the chameleon green.. its kinda rare. If you wanna see what a good orange looks like tho check out Big Tymers car.

[lookout4theyeti]

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This may just be pointing out the obvious but i dunno.. maybe you're stupid? Have you tried washing/waxing/and polishing the car?

i was thinking the same thing... a color like that WILL look dull if it is not properly taken care of for a while, meaning at least a wash and wax if you do the minimum. Best thing you could try (unless the paint really is in that bad of shape that it needs redone) is wash/claybar/polish/wax and it should look a lot better

[HokieBird]

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Yeah, if there is clearcoar still there try polishing it out. My vote is stick with the same color if you repaint since it's rare. I also wouldn't be his first backyard paint job. Wait till he does another car and see if you would be satisfied with the finished product.

[cantrip]

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he used to work at a bodyshop, painting cars, so its not his first time.

no need to call me stupid.

and i just dont like the color, even when my dad first got it it never changed all that much, it just basically looks green with a little purple or blue every once in a while.

[fritobandito]

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Different but still look good, huh? Most people would have a good point telling you to keep it basic. The trick is to probably go with an offshoot of a basic color. Don't just do red but the deepest darkest red you can find. Maybe not white but what about a pearl color. If you still must have a different color altogether you could always go with that burnt orange color. I guess it's called sunset orange. I think that was a factory option color but I'm not sure You don't see very many of those at all and it would look good with black rims. Just my opinion.

[cantrip]

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thanks, i actually think i mentioned i wanted maybe a sunset orange type of color. but yea, like i said, anything different is pretty much what i want, and all i have to do is buy the paint, so it wont cost me much. ill see if i can find some sites with shades of other colors, the question now is, what color, lol.

[Bonemaro]

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You ever price that Chameleon paint?

[lookout4theyeti]

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Is he gonna do the whole 9 yards and get the doorjams and everything or just paint the outter body?

[Oi Bird V8]

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go matalic black ....ull liek it mynes matallic black :D

[josh98bird]

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You ever price that Chameleon paint?

no joke, my buddy hit a sign with his car and you have to have the whole thing repainted to make it match again.

[cantrip]

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im not sure exactly what hes going to do, but he likes to do things perfect, and im pretty sure he would do a nice job and do everything.

[cantrip]

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as for the pricing of the chameleon paint, i cant really figure that out, i found a couple sites but they were kind of confusing and most didnt have pictures of what the color looked like. Another question i have is, does anyone know about how much paint is going to be needed to do the whole car?

and as for the black, i was thinking of going all black, black rims, black paint, black light covers and all that but, its kind of a little too much for me.

[josh98bird]

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all black is fine if you atleast have a chrome lip on the wheels. I'd go with black all over and chrome wheels.

[cantrip]

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i dno, ill think about it, its pretty much like a backup plan for me. it will probably end up happening because all this other stuff is getting too difficult, lol