* “If you’re going to buy a car, what you’re thinking is that in five to six years I’m going to sell my car. George Iannuzzi, a board member of the Color Marketing Group (an international color-forecasting group that meets regularly to discuss the colors of the future) says that concerns about resale value have a tendency to conservatively shape buyer’s inclinations. Since the late-1990s, the best-selling paint colors have been black, gray, white, and silver (silver, in fact, was the best-selling color for a decade, until it was recently overtaken by white). With the exception of an early ‘90s flirtation with the color purple, and a late ‘90s love affair with forest green, the past 20 to 30 years have represented a demure era in the world of automotive colors. In some form or another, they have become nearly omnipresent in modern paint jobs. They add depth to the paint, but they also tend to diffuse color. These effect paints are applied over the pigmented base coat, and below the glossy clear coat. Tangerine Tango Paint Color Hex color code: FF9E4B RGB color code: 255, 158, 75 CMYK color code: 0, 38, 71, 0 Munsell: HUE4.23YR VALUE7.2 CHROMA11.4. According to Harrington, these days a lot of colors are blended with aluminums and micas, with variously-sized flakes that add to the dimensional quality of the paint. “Mica,” says Jane Harrington, the manager of color styling at PPG, “gave colors a more of a luster or gem quality”-a pearlescence that is difficult to describe but obvious when you see it (check out this Toyota Highlander for a good example). (For a good example, look at this 1957 Corvette convertible in Aztec Copper). These first-generation metallics gave a very flat and reflective surface.

Metallics were available before the 1980s, but they were made by adding aluminum flakes to paint. It is our highest quality finish and provides superior gloss and durability in a easy to apply two stage package. That iridescent quality is the result of the other major technological change that came about in the early 1980s: the development of mica-based effect paint. Item includes 1 Gallon Starfire Basecoat Paint Paintforcars Starfire Urethane Basecoat is a superior quality base coat clear coat, two-stage refinishing system designed to meet or exceed OEM quality finishes. But as you move around this imaginary car, you’ll notice something else: The paint shimmers and sparkles, and its hue seems to change as you look at it from different angles.

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