Johnnos colour choice for his truck

[John Abbott]

Wadda reckon...??   2 cars that have the pastel orange colour i like. These are not metallic.
 

 

[obsession]

nothing wrong with orange buddy.

[kimbosound]

hey John....i was gunna paint the v8 truck burnt orange......non metalic......the same colour as the ford fairmont xc gxl.......noice!!!!!

[John Abbott]

Yeah.... i want a colour that can be easily matched and blended for when i scratch it coz after all she will still be a bit of a workhorse for me.

[BusyKiwi]

When I was racing stock cars my tow car was a HQ ute, I painted it wild plum (found in hot rod mag), the stock car was wild plum with white flames and my helmet was white with wild plum flames.
It turns out that wild plum is actually a factory ford colour from '78 (somewhere in the 70's) but was never used in production, is on the old colour charts. Thats a colour that really stands out

[restoreid]

I think that might have been called Wild Violet it was a special order in the 70ts You could order it on the early XW \ XY Falcon GT or GS & it always came with white upolstry looked great Also on sporty Escorts & Capries always with White interious Wernt many around but looked GREAT

[Warren]

Johno are you going to paint it yourself?

Have a look at the stock colors for Killrust/Rustoleum and search the web for "the 70 dollar paint job"

You could easily do a great job yourself.

Warren   

[John Abbott]

Yep Warren i sure am.... I definately cant afford a spray painter to do it so, i am going to give it a go myself. I have done one car years ago and it came up a real treat so i think why not

[Warren]

Good one Johno, have at it eh.

If you havent got a compressor have a look at the results this guy got HERE

Warren

[Bedfordcrazy]

MMMM interesting, the good old roller, lol  i dont think that would work on a show van.  I noticed also,he is working in a forest, under a canopy of trees, i dont think orange peel would be of concern, maybe leaf litter.  Looks good though.
I love the colour on that monaro johnno, i have seen a few hotrods, 34s and so on with that colour, popular, go for it mate, it is going to look awesome. Maybe you can do a video of the paint job as it is happening.

george.