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20/08/2020 12:06 pm
So here's a question for the stylists out there. I'm repainting a 1959
Cadillac DeVille convertible (the Dinky) and I don't want it white or black but a color that would be the best if you saw it in a museum. Forget the pink or any brown please. But if you ever saw a '59 DeVille ragtop in 1:1 scale ad the color just knocked you out, what color was it? I sold cars for a living but never had an opinion on the color so I wouldn't disagree with my customer. But it was the 60's and I was young and didn't have too many opinions. Except girls maybe. Help me.
20/08/2020 12:26 pm
Why rely on other people's tastes?
I would Google images of the car and look for an authentic '59 Cadillac colour that really grabs you and looks suitably elegant, or dramatic, or delightfully tasteless. Then see if you can identify it on a colour chart, and get a car spray can that looks a decent match.
Of course, if you do follow someone else's suggestion and you don't like the result, at least you've got someone else to blame! But since it is a diecast, not resin, you can always use paint stripper and start over.
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
20/08/2020 12:26 pm
For me.....
that car was so far over the top that it has to be bright red.
20/08/2020 12:31 pm
How about one like this. Not white, red or black nor any brown in it
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20/08/2020 12:42 pm
Yes on the blue.
20/08/2020 1:12 pm
I prefer light colors to show off the 1:43 models; light blue is a favorite!
Right now I'm working on one from the late 1920's and I'm teaming black undercarriage with a cream body; I prefer the cream; it really sets off the black. I hope to have this one finished in a day or so for pictures here.
20/08/2020 8:04 pm
Of course it is a personal choice. But since you asked you might consider Inverness Green to be a little different.
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20/08/2020 9:19 pm
I like that green better than the blue.
21/08/2020 4:49 am
I have a Spark '59 Series 60 6-window sedan in that color - very pretty.
21/08/2020 8:41 am
Well you guys have been very helpful. I'm kind of taken with that color.
Argyle Blue. I'd have to say that green is for trees. In those years selling cars we never sold any green cars in that neighborhood. I did have some fellows ask about the color green but they were very light in their loafers. Vernon. And when ever we did have a green car for stock. It kind of stuck around until the next model year. So we kinda gave it away. The color does look good on money though. But only on the back.
21/08/2020 8:59 am
You sir are insulting the long tradition of British Racing Green! Hmpf!
21/08/2020 11:46 am
Oh, This is not any disrespect to British cars at all. I actually think one reason for their reliability madness is not Lucas, but the green paint. I know a lot of guys with red MG's who report they never do have starting issues. You see?
21/08/2020 2:06 pm
Don't forget rain coming through the side curtains.
21/08/2020 7:02 pm
Don, Green paint didn't seem to bother Steve McQueens bullitt Mustang from being a hit with folks. and I don't think that Steve McQueen is "light in the loafers" as you say about people that asked you about green cars in your sales days.
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