We have finally decided to give our 1988 Toyota 4x4 long bed a new dress (new coat of paint).
We bought it new in 1988 and painted it right after taking it home. We two toned it with a metal flake charcoal bottom and Murano blue flip flop over red on the top.
The early flip flop was a pseudio color shifting paint and the truck would be pink or red, or blue, or purple or blood red depending on where you were standing and what angle the light was hitting it. It would shift colors as it drove by which I am sure was interesting to anyone who had not seen color shifting automotive paint before.
After 25 years the original custom paint was looking pretty sad. Long gone were the days of OH WOW. Now it looks like it has been sitting in a field for a while as it is faded and pretty shabby.
I am lucky that we have a very good custom paint shop here in town and the owner has been receptive to redoing the old truck. Bummer is that Murano is long gone and so is their flip flop metal flake color shifting paint
We've decided on the newer urethane chameleon paints from UreKem and are going to use a red (of some sort) base coat and squirt some of their Konfusion KF-09 Psychotic Illusions blue/purple color shifting paint over the red and HOPE that we get something close to what we had originally.
http://shop.thecoatingstore.com/searchquick-submit.sc?keywords=psychotic+illusions
these color shifting paints are designed to go over a black base coat so all bets are off putting it over red. this week the paint guy is giving us a test plate with 4 base colors with the chameleon over top so we can see the run from light red to dark blood red base and how the chameleon shifts based on each of the different red base colors. The chameleon is semi transparent so the base will show through if it is not black.
If you are not sure what color shifting automotive paint looks like here are a couple videos. Ours will be different because we will be using a NOT black base coat. We should end up with a pink to blue to blood red shift
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvmsqcFu3vU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4qT3ImQfqo
the past two weeks I have been under the old truck with a scrub brush, tooth brush, and black paint detailing the fame. Everything is off of the truck except the driver's door handle and lock which will come off when it gets to the shop (ya gotta get in and out some how).
A few pics of what I have been doing. More pics of the in-progress paint once it gets started next week.
About the best shot I could get of the old blue flip flop metallic.
had to put it back down on its 4 paws today to get some building supplies. Hey it is a work truck after all
We bought it new in 1988 and painted it right after taking it home. We two toned it with a metal flake charcoal bottom and Murano blue flip flop over red on the top.
The early flip flop was a pseudio color shifting paint and the truck would be pink or red, or blue, or purple or blood red depending on where you were standing and what angle the light was hitting it. It would shift colors as it drove by which I am sure was interesting to anyone who had not seen color shifting automotive paint before.
After 25 years the original custom paint was looking pretty sad. Long gone were the days of OH WOW. Now it looks like it has been sitting in a field for a while as it is faded and pretty shabby.
I am lucky that we have a very good custom paint shop here in town and the owner has been receptive to redoing the old truck. Bummer is that Murano is long gone and so is their flip flop metal flake color shifting paint
We've decided on the newer urethane chameleon paints from UreKem and are going to use a red (of some sort) base coat and squirt some of their Konfusion KF-09 Psychotic Illusions blue/purple color shifting paint over the red and HOPE that we get something close to what we had originally.
http://shop.thecoatingstore.com/searchquick-submit.sc?keywords=psychotic+illusions
these color shifting paints are designed to go over a black base coat so all bets are off putting it over red. this week the paint guy is giving us a test plate with 4 base colors with the chameleon over top so we can see the run from light red to dark blood red base and how the chameleon shifts based on each of the different red base colors. The chameleon is semi transparent so the base will show through if it is not black.
If you are not sure what color shifting automotive paint looks like here are a couple videos. Ours will be different because we will be using a NOT black base coat. We should end up with a pink to blue to blood red shift
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvmsqcFu3vU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4qT3ImQfqo
the past two weeks I have been under the old truck with a scrub brush, tooth brush, and black paint detailing the fame. Everything is off of the truck except the driver's door handle and lock which will come off when it gets to the shop (ya gotta get in and out some how).
A few pics of what I have been doing. More pics of the in-progress paint once it gets started next week.
About the best shot I could get of the old blue flip flop metallic.
had to put it back down on its 4 paws today to get some building supplies. Hey it is a work truck after all
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