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Thoughts on paint colours

Bruce from Can.

Bruce from Can.

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Location
Woodville, Ontario, Canada
Tractors come in very bright vibrant colours, Red , Green, Orange, Blue, Yellow, you get the idea. Few years ago while shopping for new vehicles, the car dealerships always wanted a $700.00 premium for such vibrant colours, and sold black , white and grey/silver coloured vehicles without out extra charge. Now the import cars like Nissan or Kia will sell you a vehicle of any colour the company offers same price. So do the major car makers just cash in on extra $$$ demanding a premium for vibrant colours? I have noticed that most new cars on the road are drab dark colours or white, sometimes with a crazy weird coloured decal or stripe. You just don?t see nice two tone paint jobs on new cars much anymore. Hey, maybe that?s why new tractors cost so much, it?s the cost of that vibrant paint !!
 

I have never encountered an up-charge for any color, but then I have tended to buy new cars only every ten years or so, and have never had what I would call a vibrant color. Speaking of two tone, I think that one of the best ever was the 56 Ford turquoise and off-white.
 
Yes that was nice the classic 57 Chev red/white
was another, and the light blue and white 1960
Dodge Fury, with the big tail fins , also a stand out.
My 2015 Dodge pickup, which I bought new , off a
lot, was a base model and White. I recall in the
early seventies, seventy three model forward, Chev
pickup trucks came with a sharp two tone paint.
Red stripe 6 -10 inches alone the bottom, then 18-
24 inches of white, withe another 6-8 inches of red
that traveled along the top of the box and continued
along the cab, just below the windows. Along the
top of the fenders, and over the hood, but the cab
pillars beside the windshield/back window and cab
roof were white. Anyone remember this paint
scheme? Been debating about livening up my plain
white truck that way. Be the only one like it around,
should make it easy to spot in a parking lot, lol
 
Could be. Our township's last pickup truck was red rather than "highway" orange. Red was cheaper and orange apparently has lower resale value. So we went with red...
 
I do remember that color scheme. Dad had a 72 C-20 Camper Special that was black and white - really sharp looking. And with a 350 it was fast. He was the fire chief in those days and I remember some pretty scary rides to fire calls in that truck.

Tim
 
I think most manufacturers have standard colors and then some optional ones which cost you more. With some exceptions, I find most colors nowadays rather bland and boring.

I had a friend who sold new cars and trucks for years at a big dealership and he told me that if they could, they would always get a black car or truck into the showroom that people saw when they first went in. Even if they didn't want black or eventually buy a black one, that first impression had a big effect on buying eventually.
 
That paint scheme was called the deluxe two tone, and it came with chrome moldings outlining the different colours. Some models had colours other than white as the secondary colour. In those days, you rarely saw two trucks with the same paint scheme, whereas today, you are right, the solid paints don't stand out as much....maybe that's why you need the horn beeper on your key fob to find your vehicle in a large parking lot.

Ben
 
If you look at a car lot, especially the Asian ones, majority of them are white or 4 shades of dirt.

I have a Jeep in bright blue. Ordered it that way no extra charge. The Ram trucks you can get any color out of the book from Omaha orange to electric green for a small upcharge.

Ford typically charges more for the pearl type paint colors, which I think is fair ad they are harder to apply.

I think you can get a Chevy truck in 90's two tone at the moment.
 
I promised myself never to buy a vehicle that was black, white, silver or grey. I just need some color in my life, I guess. Those are all just too common and drab. Its all you see anymore. I always wanted a vehicle in the old Mopar "Plum Crazy" color. Maybe if I live long enough I can get one painted that way.
 
Sounds like the imports might be averaging paint costs instead of charging for what you
get. There's a huge difference in paint costs for different colors. Visit any automotive paint store and you'll be shocked.
 

A few years ago it seemed like of all the Chevy pickups that 1/4 of them were red, 1/4 were white, 1/3 of them were that silver-gray color (we called it "coffin color") and the remaining 1/6 were all the other colors!
 
Rich ..... I checked your math, using the old lowest common denominator method I learned in grade 7, you are spot on with your fractional reply. Well done !!!
 

Thanks! I double checked it myself before posting it--just in case!
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Tractors are normally painted with a single stage paint where cars are normally painted with a basecoat/clearcoat system. Cars with that system you would expect to pay more for the paint job. They are more or less painted twice.
 
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