color

[coronado gold]

Thinking about changing the color of my car to red. Would you? http://firstgenfirebird.org/show/closeup.mv?carid=580

[MagicRat]

Resale red always looks good, and would look better than the gold thats there, but would reduce the value a bit....unless red was the original colour.

Personally, I would repaint it red, if it needed paint anyways. But if I wanted to sell it soon, I would leave it in its original colour

[curtis73]

Its rare that I disagree with MagicRat, but are you nuts? There are a trillion red F-bodies out there. If the gold color is original, its much more collectible than red.

If you are keeping the car as a driver, paint it whatever color you want, but it looks like you have an interest in showing the car as a collector piece. Painting it red at this point means a complete teardown of all trim, weatherstripping, chrome, and other things. Not to mention, for the sake of showing the car as a rare piece, overspray patterns are incredibly important. The factory overspray is intantly detectible to the mildly trained eye. You would have to paint things like the fenderwells black, then have it painted by a restoration expert to mimic factory overspray.

That is a gem of a car. If you want to show it, keep it gold. If you want to drive it, paint it whatever color you want, but unless its a flawless paint job that shows no signs of a repaint, forget about the velvet ropes. I say Coronado Gold.

Just kidding on the "nuts" part, MagicRat. Opinions are like buttholes... and you're one of them... wait, that's not how that saying goes...

[knorwj]

tell you the truth I like the gold. all I ever see them in is red or blue.

As a matter of fact I was just looking at a '69 in beautiful shape last weekend that was the factory blue color. It was real nice looking but I think I like the gold more (especially with the black top), it seems more rare.