What color did you paint your Charger and why?

[Surf Charger]

Looking for pictures of your Chargers and why you chose that particular color. Did it come that way from the factory? Were you inspired by another vehicle? State your case and post up a pic!

[doctor4766]

If you look at my signature pic you'll see I that I deviated from the factory colours of my cars.
Not a big fan of the original bronze on my Dodge and I just LOVE Hemi Orange.

And I've always thought that blue was never a nice colour for Valiant Chargers.
Love Sunfire yellow.

[Rolling_Thunder]

Painted the Charger Toyota Super White (040) - It was brighter than the original WW1 Alpine White and is a most easy to find color when it comes to touch ups        Plus Toyota used the color for about 15 years... 

[Fred]

My 68 Charger is black. For me there is no other colour.  It was originally white with Y-gold interior but there was never any question as to what colour it would be by the time I got finished with it.  The red bumble bee stripe just adds the finishing touch.

[xpbprox]

It took me half a year of seriously looking for a color to paint my car. I ended up picking a simple color like black. I looked at so many chargers I've found on this site didn't matter what year I just needed to see the color on a car. I was inspired by a few on here, for example I got the stripe idea from 41husk. I was almost going to go flat black but now that I think of it I'm glad I didn't flat wouldn't do the body lines any justice. Gloss was really the only way to go for me and you really have to take it to a top notch body guy to make it look like glass.

[71charger_fan]

I hated the original brown on my car so I knew it was getting changed when I could afford it. I went with Plum Crazy. At the time in the '90s, there weren't that many purple cars around. I'm coming up on time to paint it again and am torn between keeping it purple because I think the color works well on the car or switching to something different. Ford had a color called Merlot on the T-birds that I've been considering.

[68RRFlyer]

This is my former 69 RT/SE clone.  I painted it in a 67 Pontiac Color, Mariner Turquoise and added the white top, interior, and stripe.  Why?  Mainly because my former 67 Goat was this color and I loved it.  My pop had a 67 Lemans in this color, so it's sort of a color that's "been in the family" so to speak.  I'm a big fan of the blues and dark turquoise colors on these older cars as I think the lines really come alive with the slight color variances on the bodyline angles.  My 69 B5 RT/SE I'm doing now will go back as the factory did with the white top and stripe, but I have another Charger build in my head that would use a turquoise color I see on a few new cars floating around now a days.

Cheers

[bull]

It's really hard to beat the look of a black Charger. Lots of people moan about black Chargers because it's a common repaint color but it's common because it looks really, really good.

[Surf Charger]

Awesome pics/reasons. Keep em coming!

[A383Wing]

the cream 66 is still OE paint...and will stay that way until I die and someone else can have the car

the black 66 was originally white...which I didn't care for

the Daytona got painted purple because that's what the wife wanted

Bryan

[Fred]

I hated the original brown on my car so I knew it was getting changed when I could afford it. I went with Plum Crazy. At the time in the '90s, there weren't that many purple cars around. I'm coming up on time to paint it again and am torn between keeping it purple because I think the color works well on the car or switching to something different. Ford had a color called Merlot on the T-birds that I've been considering.

Black...............only kidding
Keep it plum crazy...........it looks really good. 

[dspaulding70]

I chose Silver.  I saw many cars on this website and everytime I saw a silver one, I liked it!

[jaak]

My car is not a numbers matching car, and from day one it was gonna be yellow. I wanted to paint it a bright yellow like 'top banana' (a '70 color). Well back a few years ago, a friend fixed up a '71 Duster, I was there when it rolled out of the paint booth into the sunlight....it was painted FJ6 Go Green/Sassy Grass. I instantly fell in love with that color, and from then on, It was to be painted Go Green. I painted it in my shop in October of 2010.

Jason

[jar1292]

WOW 68RRFlyer That looks sharp! i love to see the off colors that the members post here. im gunna have to put that color in my list to research it looks very good. what is the thing you hate most about it? if anything. how is it on the everyday dust? will it shine all the time?

[greenpigs]

See sig picture

I had it painted this color because I like it and it is sorta close to B5. The car is T5 original but I keep changing my mind every few weeks on what to paint it next time, but it will NOT be black, orange or this shade blue.

[nvrbdn]

when i painted this car i went on the search. it was a plum car original, but seen them and wanted to be a little diff. loved the crazy larry charger color and was leaning that way till i seen this burnt orange in a paint book the kid brought home.he worked at a semi repair shop. well his painter needed some quick money to pay his taxes and offered to shoot this color on the car for 1500.00. i went ahead and gave him 1800.00. yea, i kinda stole that paint job. that was 2 years ago. if you are in the st. louis area, its tax time again. mabey we could look him up. ha ha

[Vainglory, Esq.]

Mine was originally B5 blue in and out; no vinyl top. 

I made it R6 red with a white interior because  ...well, it looks damn good.  I also have a white tail stripe in a box, but I haven't put it on yet, and I'm not sure I will.

[ChgrSteve67]

Viper Red because I hated yellow.

[RallyeMike]

1972 Super Blue because it was a factory 72 color, it was solid/non-metalic so I could do a decent garage paint job, and I didnt like the original green,...... and red, and dark blue, and black, and yellow that the car was.

It really WAS a junk yard dog (salvaged from a junk yard and assembled from multiple cars). The lime green taxi paint that was on the car was so poorly applied I literally scraped it all off with a razor blade.

[Nacho-RT74]

B9 because it is the one came out from fact and I like a lot

[67Charger440]

JAAK, Verbatim my story...  

My 68 is/was the pale yellow and I was going to make it Top Banana to give it a little more "pop" - I even bought some PPG Concept in Y1 Top Banana to do the lower cowl plenum before it was reassembled.  Now, your FJ6 Charger has pretty much convinced me to go to the dark (green) side.  I do not like FJ5 quite as much.

The '67 is in a fresh version the original red/white combo it left the factory in.

My car is not a numbers matching car, and from day one it was gonna be yellow. I wanted to paint it a bright yellow like 'top banana' (a '70 color). Well back a few years ago, a friend fixed up a '71 Duster, I was there when it rolled out of the paint booth into the sunlight....it was painted FJ6 Go Green/Sassy Grass. I instantly fell in love with that color, and from then on, It was to be painted Go Green. I painted it in my shop in October of 2010.

Jason

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Mine is V2 Hemi Orange-ish....its a bit brighter orange with no metalflake. Had it painted in 1998

When I bought the car the engine compartment & trunk were already started in this color.  If I knew then what I know now about originality I would have gone back to the original R6 Red....when the time comes to redo the car (really dont see that happening anytime soon) Ill go back to the original color....

PS---Vainglory, your '70 is looking good!  Havent seen it in a while

[bsakal]

Chris, if you ever decide to redo your car, I will personally drive you to the nut-house.

I love the Pontiac color on 68RRFlyer's car! My car is originally F3, everytime I have myself convinced to keep it original, I see another color I might like better 

[1970Moparmann]

Restored to original - 70 Plum Crazy.



68, was green on green.  Now black on black.

[RECHRGD]

My original R/T, bought back in '68 was SS-1 yellow.  When cloning the car of my youth, it had to be the same color.  I',ve always love the pale yellow and it was very popular back in the day.  I've put over 40K miles on it since getting it done in '97, which is more milage than I put on my original one before trading it in.