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[calxen61]

I have original Arntz, Contemporary and Unique brochures from early 70. Maybe their first ones. Waited a long time. Finally, I am going to retire and build my Cobra. In putting my plan together color is of course a question. I like Black, Red, White, British Green, Blue, but these are quite common. They say (someone) that a great looking car can be painted any color, an ugly car paint it black. A cobra is great looking, so why don't we see more variety in color. I know alot is to keep the racing tradition, but if these car were popular in the late 60's and 70's, how come we do not see the vibrant colors that were out then like the wild purples, bright greens (I may like that), and others.

thanks

cal

[bobcowan]

They're out there, I'v seen them. I'v seen orange, which I did not like. I have seen copper, which was pretty cool. Silver is always popular. I even saw a dark gray metallic that I liked a lot.

Look at cars in parking lots. Find cars of a similar size, and see what colors you like. Then just order the factory paint.

[A-Snake]

Knock yourself out

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by bobcowan

Look at cars in parking lots. Find cars of a similar size, and see what colors you like. Then just order the factory paint.

... and the "new car" shows, like "World of Wheels" and what not. That's what I did. A base coat, clear coat combo is really the way to go unless you're wedded to an "old school" paint look.

[DanEC]

Originally Posted by calxen61

I have original Arntz, Contemporary and Unique brochures from early 70. Maybe their first ones. Waited a long time. Finally, I am going to retire and build my Cobra. In putting my plan together color is of course a question. I like Black, Red, White, British Green, Blue, but these are quite common. They say (someone) that a great looking car can be painted any color, an ugly car paint it black. A cobra is great looking, so why don't we see more variety in color. I know alot is to keep the racing tradition, but if these car were popular in the late 60's and 70's, how come we do not see the vibrant colors that were out then like the wild purples, bright greens (I may like that), and others.

thanks

cal

You sound like my parallel universe twin. I also have Cobra brochures for Arntz, Contemporary, Unique and ERA from about 1980. Planned to start one several times but ended up with a couple Corvettes over time. Now, I'm planning to retire and I finally placed a deposit on an ERA street Cobra kit a few months ago as a retirement project. I'm kind of toying with silver - just because of that old copy of a Road & Track magazine I have from 1974 where one of the editors wrote a story about his purchase of a silver 427 street Cobra and did a road test on it.

Don't know about the color but good luck with your plan.

[Dwight]

any color but the multi colors, blue, green, purple, look good on a Cobra. Some better than others.

Dwight

P.S. I have pulled into truck stops, rest stops, gas stations, etc for the last 7 years and they all walk pass the other Cobras and look at the black one first, then they look at the rest. I drive a yellow one and it's the last one they look at. Black then red or blue then the other colors and then yellow.

Brown?


Red / white always a great color



My cobra is yellow but I love this black / red combo or the red / black combo


there is alway blue / white



if it's painted black, the body work better be perfect, if not you can see every mistake in the body







another Black with silver striped car

[Xavier]

They have a good color thread going on at the Factory Five Forum. Pretty interesting. You gat a good feel of all colors, they have a seperate thread for each color, gren, black, red, burgandy, blue etc. Going to an entire street of car dealerships is what really helped me, not really focusing on the cars of course, but the colors both new and old.

[calxen61]

Is that you?

cal

Originally Posted by A-Snake

Knock yourself out

[calxen61]

I have 5 corvettes, I can not believe they distracted me from my over all favorite car, Cobra, I do like the 67 427 convertible also.

cal

Originally Posted by DanEC

You sound like my parallel universe twin. I also have Cobra brochures for Arntz, Contemporary, Unique and ERA from about 1980. Planned to start one several times but ended up with a couple Corvettes over time. Now, I'm planning to retire and I finally placed a deposit on an ERA street Cobra kit a few months ago as a retirement project. I'm kind of toying with silver - just because of that old copy of a Road & Track magazine I have from 1974 where one of the editors wrote a story about his purchase of a silver 427 street Cobra and did a road test on it.

Don't know about the color but good luck with your plan.

[calxen61]

I checked it out and there is a good selection of bright colors, HOWEVER I have not seen a bright green, maybe a matalic, or lime green.

cal

Originally Posted by Xavier

They have a good color thread going on at the Factory Five Forum. Pretty interesting. You gat a good feel of all colors, they have a seperate thread for each color, gren, black, red, burgandy, blue etc. Going to an entire street of car dealerships is what really helped me, not really focusing on the cars of course, but the colors both new and old.

[Dwight]

NO LIME GREEN

metallic OK

British Green OK

Bright Green OK

Lime green no OK



Dwight

[Xavier]

In the lonestar forum if you hunt around you will see someone's House of Kolor Emerald green and another's Kawasaki Green with matte black stripes.

Or you can just enlist and post a request.

[calxen61]

Wow, I like Lime green but it is a little much for me on a cobra, looked good on my spitfire years ago. So now maybe a metalic emeral bright green

cal

Originally Posted by Xavier

In the lonestar forum if you hunt around you will see someone's House of Kolor Emerald green and another's Kawasaki Green with matte black stripes.

Or you can just enlist and post a request.

[macloft]

Then is that Cal leaning on someones 427 cobra?

[bobcowan]

Iv seen a medium metallic emerald green, with green ghost stripes. It looked Really good.

[JBCOBRA]

There is a Maroon ERA fia on here That looks Awesome. I was torn between that color and Ivy Green metalic.

[rustyBob]

Cobras are very unique in there shape and size and some colors will take the shepe away and blend the curves or flatten them out,some colors will make them look larger or smaller than they actually are I.E.dark color will make it look small,light color will make it look bigger.If you pick a color with flake in it the flake will look like it moves in the sun as you walk around the car but in the shade you can hardley see the flake and the same with pearl.simple solution (black or white)or a color without flake or pearl or live it up and go for a color that you really like and flake it and pearl it and have something nobody else has.Go to your local auto paint supplier and get a bunch of color cards throw them on the dash of you daily driver slowley weed out the ones you dont like ....it worked for me.And when it comes to the stripes you are on your own i like a single color car no stripes(but you can have them if you want).

[calxen61]

Did you see a picture of it on the forum, or in person? If it was a picture I will search for it, any ideas?

cal

[calxen61]

Where can we find the guy that sprayed this?

cal

Originally Posted by A-Snake

Knock yourself out

[elmariachi]

Originally Posted by calxen61

Where can we find the guy that sprayed this?

cal

He's still sitting on the banks of the Snake River waiting on his hero to try the rocket jump again....