Black or White

[MP81]

Haha - dark cars are a pain...

Keep it white - I'll get confused otherwise!

[WMCCjames]

White...duh.

Black cars look nice freshly detailed but they are a major pain in the ass to keep that way.

[my95z28]

Basically, if you have a dark colored car as your daily driver, you will very rarely ever be happy with driving it as it will always be too dirty for you. Mine won't stay clean for more than three days. And even to keep it clean for those three days I'm cleaning the wheels daily and using a california car duster.

[Lucky SOB]

Trust me, you don't want a black car as a daily driver. Its a pain in the ass.

White...duh.

Black cars look nice freshly detailed but they are a major pain in the ass to keep that way.

:X3:

black sucks as a DD

and your car is white so you won't need to paint anything but the exterior really.

plus i have never seen a car like your's before.

[92conv]

White, that way you'll have no problem blending in with us Westsiders who tend to prefer white!!

[meissen]

I'd go with white.

[bigjon88]

sooo i guess you hsould just paint that ***** white!!!!

[WMCC Doug]

Another vote for white here ..............

[JoeliusZ28]

white, however dont use the factory white, use more of an arctic white like sean has.

[TSTONE]

obviously im partial to black - but mine are not driven daily

as a DD i would have to say stick with white

[Darren]

white, however dont use the factory white, use more of an arctic white like sean has.

The actual color of the car is artic white from the factory, thats what the RPO codes say at least.


Thanks for the comments guys I think you have helped me keep my orginal thoughts. Hopefully I can get to the body shop tomorrow or this weekend and get some quotes. I'm not going for a show room quality paint job here just as a FYI guys this car is a driver and a daily at that in the summer, I am looking to take care of the body and make it look good but by no means will it be show room...

[WMCCjames]

white, however dont use the factory white, use more of an arctic white like sean has.

Arctic white is a factory color..it has just changed shades over the years. Sean's in more towards the pure white while mine has more blue in it. The later years are much brighter than the mid/late 80's.

[81DaytonaPaceCar]

Another question you might ask is, "How much is your car worth with factory appointments?" From what I have seen even super clean 3rd gens are not worth a whole lot.

I mean you would be repainting the car anyway, which doesn't repainting decrease value anyway? Also are you planning on selling your car in the near future?

Patience, grasshopper, patience...it's too soon for them.

But it is almost time for a low mileage 1982 Indy Pace Car Camaro to show up at BJ and pull down $30K or more...cars really don't start to appreciate until they're 25-30 years old.

And, no, repainting a car does not automatically decrease the value.

Painting it some silly color or scheme that only appeals to 1% of the population will though...

[Darren]

Arctic white is a factory color..it has just changed shades over the years. Sean's in more towards the pure white while mine has more blue in it. The later years are much brighter than the mid/late 80's.

I noticed the difference in your white and seans white at the M&G, James what color code is yours? Or should I just go with the factory artic white?

[81DaytonaPaceCar]

Arctic white is a factory color..it has just changed shades over the years. Sean's in more towards the pure white while mine has more blue in it. The later years are much brighter than the mid/late 80's.

To follow up with what James said, pre-1996 GM started out with GM paint codes 9 through 12, each of them a different tint of white (technically the first Artic White was code 10).

Then there was the introduction in 92 for a code 40 White, and in 94 for code 50 White Clearcoat.

After 96 it was nearly exclusively code 50 White Clearcoat.

Not 100% sure of the induction years, but it should be close.

This is for all of GM, not just F-bodies...