NON-Cop Attracting color?

[Johnny Blaze]

Okay, I am getting ready to paint my 1993 Z28. It is currently flat black, and seems to draw the cops attention.

I am looking for a color that will not be as attention grabing.

Suggestions?

[Vegas69]

Ferrari Red

[Johnny Blaze]

haha

[kman67rsss]

invisible

[vp23271]

How about Mary Kay Pink?

[streetk14]

I say a silver or gray color. I've been there with the cop-magnet paint scheme before (porsche red on my '68). My '67 is silver with charcoal stripes and cops don't seem to notice me.

[XLexusTech]

Blue

[toxicz28]

Reflective white!

[Apogee]

Maybe it's not the car but the mullet that's catching their attention? Isn't that profiling? Or maybe it's that burning rubber smell that seems to follow you everywhere you go? Or the rubber stripes on the rear quarter panels? The old saying, "Where there's smoke, there's fire" isn't always true...but there could definitely be a ticket in the making.

Seriously though, if you do an internet search you'll see that there have been several studies and most don't seem to indicate that brighter, "arrest-me" colors get more tickets than any other. The one I saw most recently said red, gray, and brown received the most tickets in a 22 month suburban study by The Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

Tobin

[vp23271]

I agree with Tobin. Other factors come into play too. Do you have a loud exhaust or stereo system? How are your driving habits? Are your windows tinted limo dark?

I say get the car painted the color you like best. If you get it painted a "non-attention getting color" and the color is not your first choice ... you will get tired of the car and maybe not enjoy it as much?

Keep us posted on what color you go with.

[XLexusTech]

Brown!

[Young Gun]

rust

[JRouche]

Funny!! I love the brown and rust. LOL Ok, Im retired, just recently, a LA county deputy for 20 years.

Hmmmm, what attracted my attention, color?? No, not for me. It was usually the gang bangers driving the car LOL Ok, profiling?? YEAH!!! You go to enough shootings where you kinda realize what a gangster looks like. Well, they are usually the ones with the guns in one hand, kinda pointed in any direction, haphazardly to say the least. And that same glazed over look in their eyes, like too many quarts of cheap beer topped off with a nice buzz of heroin or in the maniacs case the speedy eyes cause the meth is just about right.

Now, if you didnt have any of those signs I wasnt looking at you, oh, unless you brain farted and pasted me up on the freeway while I was at 75. LOL

Car color, nope, I never noticed. OK.... A green 1985 chevy would always perk my interest JR

[PRRC]

How about dark green or white?

[Apogee]

Paint it like a police car ;) and add the spotlight over the drivers side mirror...maybe a few extra antennaes.

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

cccCCCCAMOFLAGE!!!!

[JcGc]

Well seeing how I'm a "Cop" I can tell you there is not a "Cop attracting" color. Paint it how ever you like, just abide by the law and you have nothing to worry about.

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

bull... isht..



lol.

[6'9"Witha69]

I have a few PD buddies and they all say that driving habits are noticed most. If you're checkerboarding you will get their attention real quick. Or the fastest in a group coming into view. Nothing is ever about color.

[Johnny Blaze]

Well, I got pulled over at a 4 way stop, because my high beams were on.

I got pulled over another night after being followed for 2 miles, because my windows were too dark ( at 2 am)

I have yet to be pulled over for any violations, have not recieved a speeding ticket in 9years.

HAd not been pulled over in 9 years before getting this car.