Project: Car Restoration

a car restoration is a procedure that provides it’s owner with some insight regarding the love he has for his car (always in the case where the owner is actually involved in the restoration process ).that is because during a restoration certain issues arise that the owner may had never thought of, such as the color choice. one may say “ok black is fine” but think again, which black…?

as the time approached for me to choose the color of my car I had to do an extensive search in the internet to see similar restoration projects for the specific car in order to rule out some colors that I didn’t like at all. so, even though I always used to say that “black is cool cause I ‘ve seen it on a 1966 ford mustang GT“, the truth is that I didn’t really like it when I saw a black celica while browsing flickr. after that, it was time to review all the classic car colors while keeping in mind that the exterior color had to match with the interior colors (for example it’s hideous to have a brown interior while the exterior color is navy blue…)

after having reviewed for hundreds of times endless color catalogs I ended up in three basic colors and it was time for experimentation: we actually painted a door with these three colors so as to get an idea of what the car will look like in the end

gold gray and blue gray

sand gray and light gray

needless to say that the final color was an accident. I was going for the sand gray and Vaggelis (remember, the guy who painted it) accidentally used another code while mixing the colors and the final was called “gun metal gray”…

I don’t know the real reason for chosing this color but thinking it over now it seems like a good choice. after all I can always change it after 5 or 6 years! (yeah right…)