i saw a camaro for sell that had chameleon paint. does anybody know how that stuff works?

witchery!!!

really?!?!?!? :confused:

I know some mustangs had it, called it "mystichrome" or somethinliek that... meh.

always knew them ford guys were into witchery. :)

cameleon paint is basically two different color coats. The bottom color is a darker one and the other on top, is a see-through thingy, where you see the actual color, but at a certain angle, when the light hits it, you see the color underneath it. And at different angles, the colors blend together, which can makes several different color blends based off of what colors are used for the top and bottom coats.

Hhhmmm, I though it just changed in the sun, but you seem to know what you are talking about

thats the best way ive ever heard that put!

cameleon paint is basically two different color coats. The bottom color is a darker one and the other on top, is a see-through thingy, where you see the actual color, but at a certain angle, when the light hits it, you see the color underneath it. And at different angles, the colors blend together, which can makes several different color blends based off of what colors are used for the top and bottom coats.

proving that camaro guys ARE smart :p

Well I was looking at the number of posts on the camaro forums and we have everyone beats which kinda contradicts your statement... we need help in more than one way

1.) a lot of us are not mechanically inclined
and
2.) We need help in the sense that we spend a lot of time writing posts, and not smoking mustangs

well, i only post when its past the mustang boys bedtimes lol. but i can't smoke mustangs anyway right now... i got some more to do b4 i get to fire up my lt1 powered beast...

The way I understood it, the paint has crystals that reflect different colors and they are aligned in a certain way that what angle your viewing them on decides what color you see.

paint code 320c 96-02 camaro its called mystic teal metallic

and it has 3 different pearls in it a green, super green, and ...blue
to make it it starts out with 2 different blues, a gold, black, soft white, and if there is anytihing I forgot I will post it

Fishscales.....



I'm not kidding. They use as apart of the paint grinded up fishscales to get the multi-color effect. O_o

well, i only post when its past the mustang boys bedtimes lol. but i can't smoke mustangs anyway right now... i got some more to do b4 i get to fire up my lt1 powered beast...

Yeah, how much longer til she fired up? What else do you have to do?

Below is an article that tells you how the stuff works.

Mystic Color Car Paint -- How Does it Work?
http://mysticcobra.net/BASF2.shtml

The site also has some great pictures of different colors and blends done to several cars. I think this is a good one that shows this stuff off pretty well.

http://mysticcobra.net/1996/mystic_saleen11.jpg

hey the mustang guy hit that on the nose. ive heard this paint explained many different ways but i must say this thread has brought it into the "light"

thanks for the input. i saw a camaro with that paint job for about 6500. as i understand it, thats about how much one of those paint jobs cost.