1966 Chevelle paint scheme mockups/Looking for opinions

[switchblade327]

Hey everyone,

My Chevelle is getting painted very soon and I'm still not 100% sure on the paint scheme. We know it's going to be light silver and gunmetal and I found some pictures of a '66 post car just like mine, so I went over them in photoshop to get an idea of what my car might look like. This car and photos belong to Cullen Hamm, not me! I only added some overlays to visualize the gunmetal sections.

Inspiration comes from Herb Lumpp's car and some of the late 60s/early 70s mopars that stuck with the black hood; I think the black hood gives it a more aggressive look. I also like the idea of blacking out the window frames, like some of the later model faux hardtops did, as well as a blacked out tail panel like some SS models had. The car is debadged except for the grill. I didn't photoshop the wheels. I'm looking for some 18" wheels similar to these Forgelines (http://www.forgeline.com/product_images/product_photo-xlarge_image-482.jpg) but this car is going to be street driven a lot and I'd rather stick with less expensive, off-the-shelf wheels. My Bel Air has Torq Thrusts but I love the look of more spokes on a PT Chevelle, like the Air Ride '66.


#1 Original concept
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#2 Original + aircraft light high beams (idea from another PT thread to use aircraft landing lights for high beams!)
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#3 Two-tone: One of the guys at my shop suggested it would look better full two tone. I don't really agree but I wanted to visualize it
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#4 Original + blacked out bumpers: one of my bumpers need to be replaced so we discussed maybe stripping and painting them gunmetal to math the other accents.
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#5
Silver hood (extra bad, early morning photoshop to delete Cullen's hood stripe)
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#6
Silver hood, gunmetal grill
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#7
Silver hood, gunmetal grill and bumpers
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Which do you like best? Or all they all butt-ugly? Any other suggestions?

[switchblade327]

I just noticed there is a separate forum for paint & body NOT under technical. Mods, could you move this post to the right forum please?

[chuckd71]

No. 2 looks pretty cool. I have a carbon hood and trunk (until I paint them in a couple years) and thought about blacking out my bumpers but after thinking about it I kind of like chrome. The prominent chrome is kind of a hallmark of these old cars and it's kind of cool to retain touches of that while modernizing elsewhere (100% opinion of course).
3 is pretty dated looking.

[chevnut55]

3 looks best,nice and classy. I never like the look of a body panel like a hood or trunk a differrent color,it looks like it cam from another car and the owner did not have time to paint it.
the silver looks great nice and clean.

[switchblade327]

Added options 5-7 with no black hood!

[Joe A Sanfilippo]

I like #3

Hey everyone,

My Chevelle is getting painted very soon and I'm still not 100% sure on the paint scheme. We know it's going to be light silver and gunmetal and I found some pictures of a '66 post car just like mine, so I went over them in photoshop to get an idea of what my car might look like. This car and photos belong to Cullen Hamm, not me! I only added some overlays to visualize the gunmetal sections.

Inspiration comes from Herb Lumpp's car and some of the late 60s/early 70s mopars that stuck with the black hood; I think the black hood gives it a more aggressive look. I also like the idea of blacking out the window frames, like some of the later model faux hardtops did, as well as a blacked out tail panel like some SS models had. The car is debadged except for the grill. I didn't photoshop the wheels. I'm looking for some 18" wheels similar to these Forgelines (http://www.forgeline.com/product_images/product_photo-xlarge_image-482.jpg) but this car is going to be street driven a lot and I'd rather stick with less expensive, off-the-shelf wheels. My Bel Air has Torq Thrusts but I love the look of more spokes on a PT Chevelle, like the Air Ride '66.


#1 Original concept
53399
53403

#2 Original + aircraft light high beams (idea from another PT thread to use aircraft landing lights for high beams!)
53400

#3 Two-tone: One of the guys at my shop suggested it would look better full two tone. I don't really agree but I wanted to visualize it
53401

#4 Original + blacked out bumpers: one of my bumpers need to be replaced so we discussed maybe stripping and painting them gunmetal to math the other accents.
53402
53404

#5
Silver hood (extra bad, early morning photoshop to delete Cullen's hood stripe)
53445

#6
Silver hood, gunmetal grill
53446

#7
Silver hood, gunmetal grill and bumpers
53447

Which do you like best? Or all they all butt-ugly? Any other suggestions?

[Auto Rod Technologies]

I like 2 and 7

[switchblade327]

Thread necro!

Thanks for the suggestions but the car has since been painted and in a last minute change, we went with a satin silver.
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It looks great in the sun but in some light it can look like primer, which I don't love. Considering having it re-done in gloss.