Best Racing Car Colour?

[mikee boy]

I've got a Locost racer which I'll be painting for next season. At the moment it's got orange wings, nose cone and scuttle and the rest is black. It looks quite dated and tired now and needs updating.

I'm torn between metallic blue with a silver stripe, black with a silver stripe or black all over.

What do you think? Any other suggestions?

[Graham]

Personally i like Renault VIolet ( ok pink)


it really stands out in the photos and the girles love it !!!

[Munter]

Black and Purple. (see the PistonHeads Gassing Station banner at the top of the page).

Or I have to agree with pink.....but thats a personal fetish for pink cars....

[Apache]

works for me

[minghis]

Gotta be black.

Always good to see F1 cars on the test track in their carbon fibre look before being painted up like a fruit machine.

[anonymous-user]

nothing has ever looked better than the John Wyer/Gulf Racing Porsche 917s

[Stig]

My only advice is not to spend too much on the paint job.

It'll end up looking like a crumpled crisp packet after a few races anyway

[Munter]

Stig said:

My only advice is not to spend too much on the paint job. It'll end up looking like a crumpled crisp packet after a few races anyway

I didn't realise Walkers were a sponser!

With my Black and Purple scheme he can just paint the Orange bits purple

[Murcielago]

I love the colour scheme on the Eclipse Motorsport car in the GT. Which is a bit like the Gulf colours apart from the shades of the blue really.

[mikee boy]

Thanks for the input.

I agree the Gulf scheme was a classic, but I'm not sure how it will transfer to a narrow-nosed car, it got a lot of visual impact from the width.

I'll be painting it myself, so it should keep it cheap.

I think it'll be black (easy to maintain) with a contrasting stripe over the bonnet and down the back, maybe silver like the MG Touring cars.

[Munter]

mikee boy said:

I think it'll be black (easy to maintain) with a contrasting stripe over the bonnet and down the back, maybe silver like the MG Touring cars.

Ahh so does your budget consist of
1 x paintbrush
1 x Tin of Black metal paint
1 x Tin of Sliver metal paint
6 x Cans of beer....

[joospeed]

Black with a stripe (especially silver) looks incredibly dated, so go for something brighter, like yellow, with a stripe and crash zones in easy-peasy matt black , like this

[jimbro1000]

joospeed said:

Black with a stripe (especially silver) looks incredibly dated, so go for something brighter, like yellow, with a stripe and crash zones in easy-peasy matt black , like this

In most cases I think that means the entire will be matt black with maybe the roof in yellow?

[FourWheelDrift]

Apache said:

works for me

Like this then.

[john75]

Mach one used to run in day glo orange and Ruth Senior runs with Yellow and black spots

[mikeww]

For a seven type car black with a white nose band and bonnet stripe looks pretty good.
MikeW

[Graham]

joospeed said:

Black with a stripe (especially silver) looks incredibly dated, so go for something brighter, like yellow, with a stripe and crash zones in easy-peasy matt black , like this

MMMM needs some pink on it.. i'll see what i can do


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>> Edited by Graham on Monday 27th September 23:26

[ginettag27]

From personal experience, go for a solid colour, esp. when you consider having to pay for a respray - keeps the costs down! Don't have a stripe, it'll also add money to a respray, keep it simple. I also wanted a 'Gulf' style paint job, but then thought that it wouldn't look good with "all that sponsorship" I'd have on it... yeah right! Then decided on a green, akin to the green that Henri Pescarolo uses on his Le Mans cars. Ideally you want to stand out from other competitors - there are usually loads of red, black and blue cars... It really helps your team or anyone timing you or watching for you entering the pits.. It helps them a great deal. Unless you've got lots of cash spare and even then spend it on something else like tyres, spares or maybe timing equipment instead of a 'flashy' paintjob.

[The Wiz]

pablo said:

nothing has ever looked better than the John Wyer/Gulf Racing Porsche 917s

This runs them close ....

[obi]

got to be from the early Benetton days in F1