Going to repaint to a non-stock color

[WyldWeasel]

I haven’t said anything about it yet – but the main reason that I was so quick with that link is that our VX will need to be repainted someday (sooner rather than later), and that’s the color that I was thinking about using…

Ah, I see. You want me to be the guinea pig. Smart thinking!

[WyldWeasel]

ok, I don't want to do full pix until I get the cladding and everything back on, but I officially have a '99 Copper Orange Mica VX.

HERE is a pic of the rig that shows how the color works with the red/black interior.

This color is gorgeous, it's exactly what I was looking for, so thanks again E Zoo Zoo One, I didn't mind being your guinea pig because now I can say that I'm the first!

[Cyrk]

That is going to look nice... but one thing the picture is too small...
Nice work look forward to seeing the finished product.
-Dave

[CSTYLES]

That looks awesome, its a great color! I noticed they painted the door jam copper color, where mine is black. I like that too, wonder why they decided to paint that part in black to begin with.

[E-ZooZoo One]

WOW – it looks incredible!
(you sure didn’t waste any time, either, did you?)


Just glad I could help…

As for being the Guinea Pig – we’re all lucky that you decided to go for it, because if everyone had waited on *me* to see what that color would look like on a VX……… Well, let’s just say that Isuzu might very well be selling their own passenger vehicles here in the States again before I finally get around to repainting mine.

Great job!

[mbeach]

That looks awesome, its a great color! I noticed they painted the door jam copper color, where mine is black. I like that too, wonder why they decided to paint that part in black to begin with.

Love it!
That really looks great.

I think the B-pillar area is painted dark so that it blends the side windows together. I know that on the I-man, when the windows were tinted dark, it looked really good. It is a fingerprint magnet though.
I have some Dragonplate carbon fiber veneer on the way (for another project), I was going to use the scrap to cover this black area.

[WyldWeasel]

Carbon fiber's a great idea! I didn't mean to get those painted, actually but they were so scratched up, and I was so new to the VX that I didn't know they weren't supposed to be painted (since mine was ebony so they were black anyway). So I didn't make it clear to my paint guy that they should be masked and repainted black. But now I kind of like 'em that color. I dunno.. I'll have to see how it goes from here.

[WyldWeasel]

Okay, here are some pix of the Copper Bullet the day after I got all the cladding back on, the morning I left for Moab. Those with sharp eyes will see in this and in the VX only run Moab pix that I still haven't got the stickers on. Sorry for the delay, but I have had a very full time of it since I had to leave Moab early for family reasons.

Here it is from the right:

And from the left:

And here it is coming off of Gemini Bridges at Moab:

[transio]

Lookin good!!! Nice color-depth It's like Firefox, just a little hotter.

[Velvis]

Looks great! Even better dirty. Reminds me of '72 911 blood orange.

[Tobert]

Very nice.

Did you do most of the work or farm it out? Can you give a rough number of how much it cost? Not that I'm gonna paint my ebony anything but black, but I may need fresh black someday and I've learned I'm no good with paint.

[VCAMILO]

I can't wait to paint my Ebony... I should have gotten the proton but it was not available when I got mine... :-) Im thinking Ferarri RED! ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM!

[Gussie2000]

Well,last night i join a infiniti FX 35 club & post a request for the autumn copper color code.

I got a respond right away from one of the guys that owns one,he also had aknowledgement of the vehicross,even though he knew that the FX 35 & the VX are brothers,because it was design by the same guys.

So he e-mail me with the code;A50 is the code & tomorrow i'll head to the body shop so they can start preparing a estimation for the insurance company.

I'm now more inclined to the autumn copper color but black metallic is up to the list to.