Ive been searching for picture of Black, Yellow, Black with Yellow stripes or Yellow with Black stripes. I was looking toward comparing all 4 choices to make a final decision on which color to paint my 1980 Camaro. Google Images isnt sufficient enough so i was wandering if someone out there maybe had a car graphics program and could send me some pictures. Any help is appreciated. Thanx in advance.

 

Black sounds good .
Yellow .
Yellow w/black stripes .
Black w/yellow stripes .

Sorry, no pics, but just thought I'd throw in my $.02
(I'm assuming you're talking about racing stripes on the hood??? )

 

A friend of mine had a 79 or 80 that was yellow with black stripes on a cowl induction hood. He also started a point of black at the bottom front of the doors which worked its way back at an upward angle to where if viewed from the back, you thought the car was black ( I hope that made a little sense). It looked bad-@ss. He's out of town now, but when he gets back I'll ak him if he has any pics of it.

 

Hey thanx guys... and ron the pictures would be great if you could get them. I've seen several Camaro yellow with black stripes and thats what im mostly leaning toward getting but ive never seen a 1980 camaro yellow with black stripes. The model years i really like seeing yellow with black stripes are the 71 - 73 years... They look sweet. I hope my '80 could look just as good when im through. Oh and i was talking about stripes from front to back... full length of car. Car has a 3" cowl induction hood also... so hood body lines are different...

 

I'll let you know one way or another when he gets back at the end of next week.

 

http://www.musclecarclub.com/musclec...maro-1979b.jpg

... that's about the closest i can find, and for picture editing... I'd go and find a little scale model and paint it different colors if you want to only paint your car once and get it right.

When i was laying out the flame designs on my firebird, I first went and drew the car on paper sitting in the garage, then drew different flame designs and hoodbird designs on the drawings. Then i took pictures and simply used white out where the flames would fall. But 2d images never captured what I wanted to see in the design stage.

Then, what actually worked was when I bought a LOT of 3M fine line tape and taped out the designs on the firebird itself. Then what I did is take paint chips of different shades and contrasts, (for me pewter metallic and silver metallic), and i put them side by side on the lines of the car where the colors would meet, and then, and only then did i actually see what it was going to look like, and i got surprised again with how good it looked when i finished and pulled all the tape off, the drawings were inaccurate and the pictures were inaccurate, so i used roll after roll of fine line tape and after i used about $50 worth i had what i wanted, then i had all my paint chips from the paint guy and i picked out what shades to go with.

so i guess what i'm saying is, you can get your base idea with pictures, but the final product is going to be determined by which shades of yellow and black you go with, and how you make it all flow together. How much yellow and how much black, and most of all, everyone has different tastes in paint color, contrast in two tone paintjobs, and shades, and everyone has different likes and dislikes for stripe width and location,

so my advice ... think of the cars at car shows that you saw and see what colors you like together and see if you can find a yellow car with black as a secondary color, a black with yellow secondary, at the same show and get em side by side in your mind, see what you like, and everyone else gets to deal with it, after all you're the one who drives it everyday, make it what you want.

everyone told me that silver flames on pewter paint would look funny, that i should go with the 'ghost' flame idea, the paint chips for the ghost flame idea looked weird to me, and i went with my gut instinct, and i love it

hopefully after you spent all the time reading this it helped you, sorry for the long post