Paint color , will wrong color hurt the value

[TimG]

Some colors seem ugly until you own a vehicle of that color. I vowed to never own a Laguna Blue Corvette. This was a one year only color that is rarely seen. Every time I saw Laguna Blue I thought it was horrible looking. I found a 1966 Corvette that met all of my desires aside from it being Laguna Blue. I traded a car for this one without seeing the car on the referral of a good friend.
When it arrived with those beautiful gold lines and tan top I could not have imagined how pretty it would look. At a Regional NCRS meet people keep asking me if it was a factory color. The point that many people have made is correct. The car was painted correctly, I had really not seen one done properly.

[Jeff H]

My first car was a 69 Camaro conv that was Rally Green. When I had the car restored bu the local vo-tech school I had my choice of color and thought long and hard about changing it. I stayed with the original color and they did a really good job with the car. I took it to shows and everyone was asking if it was the original color because it looked great. I would recommend staying with the original color because anyone that knows their Camaros will know right away when they see the trim tag if it's the original color. That's one of the things that makes me lose interest in a car at a car show.

[68l30]

My Camaro is a Ash Gold with a Ivy gold deluxe interior.It's either love it or hate it.Sometimes you just have to be different.I know I've never seen more than one gold Camaro at a show.With the recent return of the more earth tone colors,on the new cars,1960's colors are not to far off the beaten path.......


Steve

[K Pascoe]

Sometimes its nice to walk through a car show and see some different color cars. There is always red,blue and black cars everywhere. I was at Charlotte a few years back and I saw a 70 LS6 chevelle that was a pale yellow with a light green interior. Now the color wasn't the thing that intrigued me but the fact that all of the documentation was with the car as well as the original owner sitting next to it! I'll buy an original owner car in a heartbeat... KP

[tom406]

Hey Bkhpah, any chance you could post some pics (or e-mail) of that Dover white 375HP car? I personally am all over White, Silver, or Black cars with red interiors and red highlights. That car sounds stunning, and I'd love to see it.

I shouldn't have made the red suggestion on the Motion car, because I'm not a "resale red" guy. Its just the most striking 2nd gen Motion car I've ever seen was bright red with a White stripe and Black interior and big and little Cragar S/S's. So if I came to own a green one, that's what I'd be tempted to paint it. (And I'll agree the world certainly doesn't need any more red '70 SS Chevelles. There's a red on red '70 SS396 here in town that I like a lot, though.)

Even in color changes you can go off the beaten path and choose a color from that year that isn't seen often. We had a '67 SS396 Camaro, originally gold, that was very nicely redone in Tahoe Turquoise. This is a seldom seen color that really stands out today, and has aged well. I never heard a single negative comment about the color change, even though we were open about it. (They usually asked if it was a factory '67 color. We said it was, just not originally on this particular Camaro.) Don't restore for resale, restore for you. I personally don't go for color change cars, but I won't hold someone to task for restoring a car the way they would have ordered it new, rather than the way it was built.

[68TopStock]

bkhpaw,

Is the aluminum wing you mentioned mounted with 5 bolts on each side? The MN Harrell discussed last fall has 10 holes filled on the rear deck, seemed to have holes cut in the innner panel with a hole saw, appears a professional installation.

After reading this string, I hope I don't face too many jibes for painting my car red, when the original color was one year only royal plum. I thought the history of the car was more important though.

[bkhpah]

There are 4 holes on each side. Ten total if you count the Harrell medallion under the Camaro script on the deck lid. The wing was an American Racing piece. Moon also made a wing like the American unit. I have an original Harrell picture from Valarie Harrell showing the wing on another Harrell Camaro. Although the picture is a black and white, the car appears to be Daytona Yellow. Is the NM Harrell car the Glacier Blue car? Joe's Harrell Camaro was from NM and was sold new at Ed Black Chevrolet. It is LeMans Blue. No wing installed on that one...BKH