Body Repaint Thoughts?

[nooncha]

Hey guys. I am going to repaint my entire car next year after winter. Right now its the metallic blue, although it has seen better days.

However I have parts that are the metallic pewter from my old car that I will be putting onto it. They include a ram air hood and a rear hatch (the one on the car now has a crack across the glass) and the lamp covers and front bumper.

I really like both colors tbh, but am undecided on which way I should go with the repaint. Although the blue does show dirt a lot more than the pewter did, so I have to wash it more. I heard painting a dark color into a lighter one is a bit more difficult/work, but I will be saving up all winter for this.

If I decide to paint the entire car Pewter, I can basically swap over parts from my old car that include front bumper, fenders, hood, light covers, rear bumper, 1 door and the rear hatch, which leaves the hoop(roof), 1 door and rear quarter panels to be repainted as well as some touch-up on the transferred parts.

If I decide to paint the car blue, that leaves just the hood, hatch and a couple of light covers. But the rest of the paint on the body isn't all that great so it needs a good once over.

Thoughts and opinions would be greatly appreciated!

[Gregs_gsxr]

well, either way they are both metallic right? if so, then no matter what way you go all panels are going to need to be "faded" into each other, cause metallics are had to match perfect specially when different panels of the same color are next to each other but painted at different times. its hard to explain, however since you have to paint it one way or another why not go with a new color ?