I have 2 candy apple red cars and they both look slightly different. Both old school single stage paint jobs, that don't really look all that great up close. They both need repainted.
I want to repaint my mustang someday. It will be painted a metallic red. After years of looking at auto shows, Autorama, and Cruises. I started noticing some metallic red colors were brighter than other metallic reds. I didn't know why. I wanted a deep red that was still bright. Some just looked dull and dark to me.
One day I was refinishing a vintage guitar that was metallic red and noticed the layers of paint.
I always liked this brighter metallic red guitar and knew that was the kind of red I was looking for, for my car. It seemed to really pop. Well I found out that this guitar was painted with grey primer, then black, then Gold, then Red.
After asking many owners of many cars what color they use under the red. I found the darker looking metallic red cars had a silver base, and the brighter metallic cars had a gold base.
A few years ago I was at the Detroit Autorama as usual. I saw a 69 Mustang there that had that perfect deep/bright/metallic red I was also considering. The owner confirmed that he used a gold base.
So now I know what color my car will be.
I think this is the car?
These are my cars.
