# 2-Tone paint on cars...your opinions. **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [December 2, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-tone-paint-on-cars-your-opinions/59114 "2008-12-02T16:13:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 6:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-tone-paint-on-cars-your-opinions/59114/21 "2008-12-03T06:02:47Z")
Depending what colors and where it is, it could look quite good. ---
**Author:** ![sureshot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sureshot/32/7578_2.png) [@sureshot](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 6:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-tone-paint-on-cars-your-opinions/59114/22 "2008-12-03T06:03:30Z")
Don’t pull a sean ryan and two tone with blue and black. Totally gay move. ---
**Author:** ![LUKE\_L](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/luke_l/32/7462_2.png) [@LUKE\_L](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LUKE_L)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 5:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-tone-paint-on-cars-your-opinions/59114/23 "2008-12-04T05:52:17Z")
I personally think two-tones look awesome on cars/trucks that have defined body lines/features that break up a solid color. What I mean is that older muscle cars that had two-tone paint usually had a chrome feature that broke up the paint as one solid color (ie Bel-Air, Riviera, Fairlane ) or had such sharp body lines (ie 60s Ford, Olds, Buick, etc…) that is was easy to break the paint. ![http://www.southernclassiccarsnc.com/files/automobilemodule/%40random471f92a174a84/1218485617_41willis_050.jpg](http://www.southernclassiccarsnc.com/files/automobilemodule/%40random471f92a174a84/1218485617_41willis_050.jpg) With newer style cars is is harder to do it, IMO, while not messing up the style of the car. You can pick a random point and it turns out like shit. ![http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/4/web/688000-688999/688540_123_full.jpg](http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/4/web/688000-688999/688540_123_full.jpg) Or…if you find the body line of the car and follow it you can have one hot looking paint job worthy of catching glances ALL the time. ![http://images.mustang50magazine.com/featuredvehicles/z%2B2005_Ford_Mustang_GT%2BChip_Foose_Design.jpg](http://images.mustang50magazine.com/featuredvehicles/z%2B2005_Ford_Mustang_GT%2BChip_Foose_Design.jpg) Basically pick a design first and see if you like it. Then play with colors. Hope this helps. But as mentioned before it really depends on the colors. ---
**Author:** ![chino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bcef8e/32.png) [@chino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chino)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 6:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-tone-paint-on-cars-your-opinions/59114/24 "2008-12-04T06:17:34Z")
i’d also like to note that i think that black and dark blue car looks fucking awful. black and dark blue is NOT a good color combination, despite how many people think that it is. ---
**Author:** ![MPD47](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mpd47/32/7383_2.png) [@MPD47](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MPD47)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-tone-paint-on-cars-your-opinions/59114/25 "2008-12-04T08:48:41Z")
Chino, so true, two of my friends have been trying to get me to change a spare set of my wheels to black for the daily… it’s carbon black, which is closer to midnight blue than anything. I keep telling them black + blue = bad. Andy, it could certainly look hot, HOWEVER. No CF, especially not on the nose panel. Anyone who does mods to a nose panel on a 300zx just makes it look excessively tacky. ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 9:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-tone-paint-on-cars-your-opinions/59114/26 "2008-12-04T09:33:35Z")
I always thought this red Z looked pretty close to as good as it gets (before you go all ricer show car). I’d spend money on a turbo swap. I don’t like the idea of black wheels on mike’s M5, unless it has like a 5" polished lip - but I know mike hates that style. ---
**Author:** ![chino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bcef8e/32.png) [@chino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/chino)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-tone-paint-on-cars-your-opinions/59114/27 "2008-12-04T10:23:10Z")
> [@theblue](#): > > I always thought this red Z looked pretty close to as good as it gets (before you go all ricer show car). > > I’d spend money on a turbo swap. > > I don’t like the idea of black wheels on mike’s M5, unless it has like a 5" polished lip - but I know mike hates that style. his car is ricer looking with a huge wing, and it’s already turbo swapped… i think you have him confused with someone else and again: black… and blue… is fucking awful. ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 10:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-tone-paint-on-cars-your-opinions/59114/28 "2008-12-04T10:26:38Z")
> [@MPD47](#): > > Chino, so true, two of my friends have been trying to get me to change a spare set of my wheels to black for the daily… it’s carbon black, which is closer to midnight blue than anything. I keep telling them black + blue = bad. > > Andy, it could certainly look hot, HOWEVER. No CF, especially not on the nose panel. Anyone who does mods to a nose panel on a 300zx just makes it look excessively tacky. for a 2 tone, the nose panel would have to be painted, or else the color scheme wouldn’t look right. OEM look CF would be cool though. Do they make CF hatches for the 300zx? Black T-Tops, CF Hatch, CF Hood, and CF Nose Panel would be baller, then you would just need to spray the section between the T-Tops and the Hatch, and the Pillars Black and Clear Coat all the CF. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-tone-paint-on-cars-your-opinions/59114.md?page=1)