Re: IML: Green cars and how to deal with them

[Cadmat <cadmat@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Kenyon, and anyone else needing some details on different colors available, I found this site

http://www.tcpglobal.com/autocolorlibrary/

 they have original color chips on line for just about every year, make and model car made. I was looking at the Imperial choices for 72, and yes, keeping it original, you are quite limited, but if you branch out a bit there are some pretty amazing color choices from other years and makes, that would really make your coupe sing!.. I see from your page on the site that you were going to do some customizing on the car anyway, but if you wanted to keep it more a less "stock", I personally love the soft buttery , creamy yellow Cadillac had in the mid 70's, not a mustard yellow or to "sunny" like what Chrysler has.. would look really neat with that interior of yours, also a dark metallic jade green or pine green from Lincoln in 79 would be nice too,... pretty era appropriate, but not so make specific.  There are
 tawny browns and khaki golds that would work well too. Not that I'm in love with any of these colors, they are simply suggestions
I mention all this because I spent 3 years ready to find a perfect , yet unconventional color for another collector car I have. ( a 78 Town Car ) it was a dark almost brown color that the manufacturer called cordovan, I hated it and didn't want to pay 3 grand plus to put it on my car again. I had the money, had finished restoration of everything else.. I just couldn't pick a color!.after looking at thousands of colors in tons of books at major paint suppliers in my city ( San Diego) I found that I kept being drawn to the same color family, so I re-did it in a color called light rose metallic.  It looked magnificent, and I've never seen another like it, people comment an it all the time ( positive usually ) I'll gladly send pics off-list to anyone who'd like to see.. but the point is, that green interior can be absolutely beautiful if
 matched properly to the right exterior color, and it will  really show off those wonderful lines and massive grace of the automotive history you are so lucky to care for called Imperial for 72.

An just for the record, I believe that Jim is right.. that color is awful on that Detroit car, just wrong for the car regardless of the in interior color.. and it WAY clashes!.. but it does look like a quality job though.

Matt 
( who's 1990 Imperial is an easy to match White with tan interior) 
78 Lincoln Town Car ( for sale ) 
86 Fleetwood Brougham D'Elegance
88 Allante
89 Lincoln Mark VII
90 Imperial ( mom's baby )
98 Bmw 740 iL





Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > That's a nice '69 - though if I had repainted it I
> > would have chosen a color that didn't clash
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> > that particular shade of green interior.
> > Just my two cents -
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> > Jim L. in OR 
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> OK, so YOUR'E the color expert, eh?  I'll call you
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> I'm facing the same problem on my green coupe, but I'm
> not yet committed to a color.
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> My interior is even nastier - it's 1972 Avocado Green
> - you know, the color they were doing appliances and
> everything else in that year?
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> http://imperialclub.com/Yr/1972/Wills/
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> SO, Riddle me this, Batman:
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> >>>What color doesn't clash with a green interior?<<<
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> I don't want to redo my car's interior, and frankly,
> I'm finding myself of limited imagination as to what
> would work besides stock.  Coupes are scarce enough
> that beggars can't be
>  choosers, and I'm already
> committed to the car at this point.
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> I am too lazy and cheap after all that I've done so
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> Options I see:
> Bright lime green (can't beat them, so join them)
> Stock Green - Ugh.
> Semi-Gloss Black - too "hot rod" esqe?
> Gloss Black - Kinda conservative?
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> Silver/aluminum - but that interior is still green. 
> Paint dash black and install black seats that I have?
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> I really want the reflections that you see in those
> photos at the top, so stock green or black might be
> the only way to do that?
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