Ok I've made the decision to get my 240Z painted. I like the current grey OK, but the car has some scratches, a lil bit of surface rust, and some damage to the hood, So instead of just getting the car painted in some areas, it would make more sense just to get the complete job done.

The colors I've narrowed it down to are:
Pale yellow: this is the same color as Z-hags new ride and is the original color of my car- I can see indications of it in the interior and under the hood. I was leaning towards this but have had friends try to dissuade me from painting it this color....altho I think its pretty cool...

Red: Not really the fire engine red but more the orangish-red that you see on alot of the older Zs. Of course the down side is that every other sports car out there is red. But it does look cool.

Dark blue: I saw one on Ebay this color and it looked awesome.....plus you don't see too many of them around this color.

Any thoughts out there or opinions would be appreciated

 

If You Go With The Yellow Add Some Pearl To It And A Few Extra Coats Of Clear To Give It A Real Nice Color.

 

I like the gray you've got now but I'd also go with the dark blue! especially a dark pearl metalic blue, it would be pure sexy

 

I Really Like The New Blue On The 2007 Frontier. Very Dark And Blue.

 

Heres the blue Z I saw on Ebay:



I don't know how close it is to the blue on the Frontier....but pretty cool....

 

blue and red oxidize so fast----silver grey is a cool get away with nothing color--cops see it more than red.....only color car ihav e ever gotten tix in....silver grey........yellow--can vbe seen in day and night .....in snow and rain.......only KRAZY people drive yellow--prolly really: only KRAZY people speed in yellow cars......but i never got a speeding tic in my yellow opel gt.....and i went over 90 all the time.......and i never got hit in a yellow sportscar........visible......

besides everyone needs a yellow streak............


what skittle said........^^^-----deep, and with black wheels, like the one i yam getting.........sour lemon skittle yellow with pearl and deeeep clear coat........

 

^^^ Yeah Z-hag Join The Skittle Ranks!!!! Come Taste My Rainbow!!!

 

I love the original yellow color, thats the color of the two potential cars I'm looking at right now

Daniel

 

meh... its to pale for me.... i say the blue. mike... where the hell do you live in IL now? springfield? cause idk im so confused i thought you lived more closer to me for somwhere and then you mentioned springfield not to long ago and i was like... wtf?

 

How about Lamborghini pearl yellow instead of the factory yellow.

 

I say yellow or blue. Call hella attention and scream sports car with yellow or be subtle, yet sexy with a dark blue.

 

yeah the lambo yellow is nice its just a tad to bright.

 

Looks like yellow is winning! Blue is in second.....no one likes red? Just too common I guess.

Snow, I live downstate in Springfield. Sometimes I wished I lived in Chicago area so I could go to more Cubs/ Bears games. Probably more expensive up there though..........

 

Well my Z was the classic red you speak of (68' ford mustang red/orange) at one point in time and i dunno, it just was (a) too common and (b) cops tend to **** with you, or maybe it was just me, a lot more. As soon as i lost the red i lost about 50% percent of the attention that red brought.

old red after the initial resto-

 

well then mike.. its time to move. theres plenty of affordable places to live up hear... plainfield and romeoville right out my quiet towns back door are very affordable. if my cousin can afford a house in plainfield anyone can

 

Chicago is a nice town to visit Snow, but if I move somewhere, its gotta be somewhere South, especially after this damned winter that never ends. I wanna move back to North Carolina someday.....

 

i think the original sour lemon skittle color is just right .....the lambo yellow is too orange. very itialian. my car is nip. therefor skittles fit. theres orange, yellow, green, many skitle colors that look so good in z's------didnt you all know you are in the bag of skittles club???????

 

i think the sour lemon skittles color is best for these little cuties---bigger cars can tolerate the italian darker color yellow, but our little nippon cars like the bag of skittles colors--nice and brite and tasty......


ever eat skittles with dark chocolate????? tryu em with hersheys dark choc kissaBLES.......oops

 

Man I put a thread just like this one on classicZcars...and got just one reply!
They don't seem that friendly over there......

 

Sorry to the "Yeller" lovers here, but I never liked the original Z yellow. My brother had a black 240 when I was a teenager, and it looked great. I bought my first Z, a 260, in the mid-80's and it was a beautiful medium blue. Very nice color, like the Pacific Ocean. I painted my patchwork '70 240 a silver/gray that looked pretty good, but ultimately my current Z is the best color I have ever seen, a dark British Racing Green. Awesome color, IMHO.

 

the racing green would be sweet. you cant get oxidizing in clear coat paint jobs, so dont worry about that. if you get a bright color, orange, yellow red, etc. you get attention, from everyone. cops included. go something more low key and classy and dont stand out, and life will be good. mine is 2001 mustang silver, and it stands out, but only at car shows, cops never see me. there are crap loads of silver/gray cars around, so you blend in. plus silver is very forgiving. cant see dirt and the big scratch my car has all the way down the side.