Originally Posted by ZIPPY
Originally Posted by Stanton
"Zippy" has probably provided the most valuable comment of all. Those photos really do a pretty good job of showing what it might look like.


Well, I tried. Glad you found it useful.

I'll be the first to admit it was with a fair amount of personal bias, as I've been prepping the GTX for 3 years and shot it myself last week here at home.
After alot of vacillating and research I went with the original color, but it's obviously a modern formula+process.

In the timeframe of these cars when they were new, a metallic silver was absolutely not a color I'd want unless I intended to pamper the car.
The single stage leaded enamels faded terribly and it was not long before they looked like gray primer........which isn't far from Destroyer Gray, so....here we are.....it s not super hard to connect the dots and imagine.

Good luck with whatever it is you decide, I do have opinions, specific likes and dislikes but most of my ideas don't relate to your question at all, so they're pretty useless in the conversation.













The interesting thing is that you say you don't want to use a factory color, but the pictures Zippy posted are of a factory color--A4 silver metallic. I know because my car is that color--the PPG 1969 version.

As has been said, paint it whatever color you wish. It is your car. But you asked for opinions so here is mine--IMO there is such a large number of good looking factory colors, I feel no need to get exotic. To me non-factory modern colors on an old car just don't look "right" unless it is on an obvious radical custom or resto mod. Can't explain it, but they just don't. And if you ever go to sell your car, you'll find I'm not alone. A factory color will often fetch more $ than a non-factory color.

Good luck on whatever you decide!

Last edited by wingman; 07/19/23 09:25 AM.
1969 Dodge Coronet Super Bee 383 A4
1970 Plymouth Road Runner 440 FC7 (sold)