I've seen one or two cars around town that appear, for lack of a better word, 'frosted'. I'd assume its something done to the clearcoat and was wondering if anyone knew anything more or had samples of it..

Was thinking a frosted cobalt or electron blue would look great on a SS..

 

Try to find a pic that looks like the paint I dunno what you are talking about

 

Or is it a pearl coat?

 

you mean like somebody waxed their car without wiping it down

 

none of the above gents. Definitely not primer, and i doubt its perl unless there is a matte version of it.


I'll keep searching, maybe I can turn up an example.

 

Eh, no luck.


Ok, try #2 for describing it.

It looked something akin to a matte anodized finish, except it had more depth and had a slightly hazy/milky tint over it. Maybe it was a pearl, but I can't say that I've seen a matte pearl before..


It might be a screw up from a local shop for all I know.

 

A pearl coat is not really at all like a 'frosted' finish. You could have a red pearl color, and that is really pretty normal. The pearl part just means that it has flakes in it, kind of like metallic paint. I am pretty sure it's only called that because they used to use real pearls for the flakes. But now I am pretty sure they just use plastic flakes.

 

Exactly... That's wy the paint job that I'm gettin on my car is going to be a pain if anything ever happens afterwards... I'm using 1 base color (The stock red) and 3 different Pearls... A red right ontop of the base-coat, a white over that, and then Silver stripes done only in pearl, with atleast 3-5 clear coats over the whole thing. It's nice to have family in the business..