Paint scheme ideas

[Dino]

I'm loving my 2000 VX but that black paint... ugh! Hot!!! Shows dirt easy... every little body ding stands out even more. Nice factory paint but I think it's got to go!


I was looking at some rally VXs and found this in skidplates gallery. Thanks!




The dirt on Maui is red by nature. It can stain clothes and tinge white paintjobs. You have to really scrub to get the stuff off. There's even a T-shirt company that uses the stuff to dye shirts called the Red Dirt Shirt Co. I digress...

I really like the idea of painting the cladding, hood insert, wing, roof rails and mirrors a nice brick red and the rest a light desert tan with just a bit of the same red tint added. It would look great moist of the time because the dirt would just blend in!

I'll only use PPG paint because it's the best. I've sprayed gallons of the stuff and it's tough. Holds up to dings from rocks really well and they have a flex agent that can be added for painting bumper covers.
I can also get some really good quality clear undercoat to cover the paint on the cladding to help keep it from chipping. Then add a few lights and some stickers and it's a Rally VX!


So how would you paint your VX?

[JHarris1385]

I wish I had photoshop for this one.

There is a website on a thread around here that is like a tirerack.com to the max. Where you put wheels on the VX with any type of paint/tint job almost and you can lift or lower it to see how it would look.

[ZEUS]

True fire paint job all the way!!!

[uncle_asa]

So how would you paint your VX?

Actually thinking about brighter orange than this one with same kind of logos:

[Cyrk]

[cyronman]

I like that red dirt idea a LOT.

I've seen some really unique pics of VXs (usually some overseas/racing models) and the thing is, those unique schemes always make the VX much cooler and the VX always makes the schemes look good.
Alright, maybe not always, but usually.

Someone else just mentioned recently about painting one up desert camo-ish and maybe chopping the top (could be wrong), but I think that would be badazz too, and I bet would look great, paint scheme alone.

[PHO2GR4]

I may just have to steal that silver v-shaped chrome-y looking wedgie idea. That actually looks slick!

The others look cool too, but in a more Matchbox / Hot Wheels kind of way.

[Chopper]

Six years ago, I was ready to strip it, and give it a reptile skin...heavily keeled, overlapping scales (using a horned viper I was breeding as a model) In '03 I got to use the design on a spec Miata. It's still spec racing in that paint scheme.

[WyrreJ]

Here's a pic of my favorite red dirt shirt - worn by an ex,
picked it up on Kauai last time I went home:

[Spike]

Here's a pic of my favorite red dirt shirt - worn by an ex

An ex? Shame...

I had a red dirt shirt from Sedona AZ .. same idea.. I didn't look anywhere NEAR that good in it.

Mine said 'the original dirtbag - 100% red dirt shirt'