what should i paint it?

[crash]

putting together a 72 charger, and can't figure out how to paint it, i'm leaning toward lime green, or orange,  got a bubble hood, going to either put r/t, or super bee stripes, 440,  paint the engine bay same color as car?? or black out the engine bay?? what color to paint the engine??  it aint really and original restoration, was originally a 318 car,  going with chrome valve covers, aircleaner, aluminum intake, headers, alum water pump chrome timing cover, 

any body have pics to get some ideas??  and pics of engine bays?

[Bob]

F8, dual white pin stripes, blacked out bulge on the hood.

[70charginglizard]

F8, dual white pin stripes, blacked out bulge on the hood.

[craigandlynda]

engine room same as body....i take it this will be  a street car, not a show or original restoration? no matter what color you choose, try and stick with one of the original stripe patterns...they were professionally designed to accent the body contours...

(i am looking for a 3rd gen car to re-do as a street machine....thinking about painting a very lite shade of beige, like many early b-bodies were, with black striping and black interior)

[Finn]

What color is F8?
*puts on noob helmet to avoid rocks of slander*

[Blown70]

What color is F8?
*puts on noob helmet to avoid rocks of slander*

Look at the Lizzard,  Green,  sorry I am not a green fan, ( I am going to eat those words in a week)!!!!

[Joshua]

What color is F8?
*puts on noob helmet to avoid rocks of slander*

Hahaha!
Why can't guys just say what COLOR something is, rather than some code?
Mopar guys are so weird......

[Blown70]

What color is F8?
*puts on noob helmet to avoid rocks of slander*

Hahaha!
Why can't guys just say what COLOR something is, rather than some code?
Mopar guys are so weird......

Cause then peeps need to ask questions, there is what 2 or 3 heck maybe 4 different GREEN's? 

[Joshua]

There are SOOOO many more colors of green (or any other color) than what Mopar made....... most factory colors are ugly anyway.

Paint that sucker orange......but throw some gold pearl in the clear......it'll make it POP......

[plum500]

..Hemi Orange... the car, bay, bumpers, and block. Black side stripes and hood blackout. Add wheel opening moldings, hood pins. Hideaways - black. Would be very clean and mean.

Just my    

[craigandlynda]

good thought....don't forget the hood pins

[Blown70]

There are SOOOO many more colors of green (or any other color) than what Mopar made....... most factory colors are ugly anyway.

True, on the shades of green, I was stating the Mopar colors of the era..... there is that sub-lime or what not too.

[Mike DC]

I'd be inclined to think hard about going with orange.  Reddish-orange musclecars are cool, and Mopars earn the right to wear that color as much as any other. 

And you can actually not hear GL comments every four seconds when it's not a 2nd-gen car. 
(With a 3rd gen, you might even make it as much as 7 or 8 seconds between GL comments!)


 

I'd probably choose something more high-impact than the true "Hemi orange."  Choose it right, and you can get away with doing this and a lot of people will still assume it's the factory color unless they really know Mopars & paint.

The (post-Cooter-overhauled) GLs in the 2005 theater movie were all shot with AMC's 1970 "Big Bad Orange."  I like it better than factory Hemi Orange, or even Chevy Hugger Orange.  AMC-BBO is close to those colors, but it's a notch brighter and not quite as close to red. 

[WingCharger]

What color is F8?
*puts on noob helmet to avoid rocks of slander*

Look at the Lizzard,  Green,  sorry I am not a green fan, ( I am going to eat those words in a week)!!!!

How dare you! 

F5 Green is awesome! (I listed the code just to make everybody else mad )

[plum500]

What about something along the lines of Grabber Orange...? ...and don't forget the chin spoiler..

http://www.allfordmustangs.com/photopost/data/3233/medium/704.jpg

[Blown70]

What color is F8?
*puts on noob helmet to avoid rocks of slander*

Look at the Lizzard,  Green,  sorry I am not a green fan, ( I am going to eat those words in a week)!!!!

How dare you! 

F5 Green is awesome! (I listed the code just to make everybody else mad )

ya ya wait till I post some pics next week,,,,,, I will eat crow.

[sick dawg]

I'd go with orange!
and an engine pic!

[rt green]

go with petty blue. looks real good on 3rd gens

[HKCharger]

ORANGE with white out rallye hood!

[crash]

where can i find some pics? 

[konigcharger]

Standard or SE?

standard- GA8 - (Gunmetal Gray Metallic for the noobs) Black canopy vinyl top, bulge hood blacked out 72 style, trunk lid/ qtr extension stripe. also mopars get body color engine bays 

SE- triple black... 

but whatever you decide is cool

[crash]

i'm thinking the color in konig's avatar, that bright green.  probably r/t or superbee decals on the hood in black.  what is that called??  i mean what do i tell the guy at the paint store?? isn't it sublime, or sassygrass green or something like that??
yeah a chevy guy was trying to tell me all kinds of stupid colors for the engine and engine bay, like black engine bay with a grabber green for the engine, that's some chittylet stuff ya know.  i always saw mopars with the engine bay the same color as the car "with a few exceptions like the bo duke guy's general lee"   and he keeps asking me why i want to paint the engine bay the same color as the car, i said it's a mopar thing, you just won't understand.....

[1969chargerrtse]

OMG another orange car.   I own one and get a little sick of the color sometimes.  Mine is Hugger Orange, very bright orange in the sun whereas the Hemi orange has red in it.  Why the painters chose GM's Hugger orange over the Hemi orange is beyond me?  Being a GM guy also as a Mopar guy it's kinda neat.  Kinda.  I really don't enjoy telling people it's not the correct color orange for the car, but your average Joe/Jane doesn't know anyway.       Then again I love the orange engine compartment,      I'm very confused.  Help me.

[FLG]

I agree with konig,

You cant beat the look of a tripple Black SE car with all that chrome, especially with the wheel opening molding 

[crash]

i like this paint shceme

http://www.71superbee.com/Bill_Trudeau/images/superbee_fj6_011_l.jpg