I am considering painting a gold color as a 2-tone on the bottom half of my 86 3door.

 

The car is root beer brown color, paing code #569, PPG "Crest Brown Metallic"

 

I am looking for picures of your subarus in their factory gold colors, anything like a loyale rx with gold badges and gold 'chrome', and also, any pictures of bbs gold wheels, or anyones gold painted wheels with whatever flavor op paint/duplicolor/rustoleum.

 

I would also like to know what paint codes you have on your gold soobs, or what brand/color of paint that anyone has pinted gold on their cars.

 

I like the idea of gold, i think it would go well with the brown, and update the look of the car like the outbacks have. I am just afraid of what ghetto chrome gold may look like, and i am thinking of a factory paint gold, or something more towards a bronze color.

 

Opinions? Perhaps another color instead?

 

Edited June 6, 201114 yr by MilesFox

I am wondering what shade of Gold this is:

 

#393 Astral Gold Metallic 1985

 

I don't think the gold will update the look of the car, as Brown and Gold were basiclly '70s colors. It will still add to the car I think, but not in the updated apperance way.

i meant updated like the outbacks are, with the champagne color on the lower half. I painted a burgundy loyale sedan this way, and it looked less like an older model. i painted the wheel arches too. but tis time, i would like to keep it below the wheel arches.

 

 

This was a rustoleum gold color if i remomber correctly. It may be duplicolor. This was some 6 years and 20 subarus ago

Hey Miles,

 

I don't have a Subaru painted like this yet:

But I want one. Darker bottom, lighter top. I do have a '82 Chevy Beauville. It has darker brown at the windows. They are all factory tint and darker tint all around.

 

The bottom strip is metallic brown ish. Next, going up is Cream at the hood line. The at the window level, that brown. The top of the van is cream.

 

These are what I like. The van, that paint was optional custom two tone. I drove it off the showroom floor when new. It was sweet:)

 

Doug

^^^ I like this shade of gold. Not too bright or yellow, and not too blingy. The color on the wheels look very close to the factory color of 94 legacy gt wagon snowflake rims.

Miles - if you can get me a good, clear picture of your 3 door i can photoshop up some mock ups for you to get an idea of what it would look like with different configurations...the larger the file size the better too...

Miles - if you can get me a good, clear picture of your 3 door i can photoshop up some mock ups for you to get an idea of what it would look like with different configurations...the larger the file size the better too...

 

Fox, Go deebo Desmonds DSLR as he doesn't need it anymore

 

Question for you, when you do paint the bottom another color, you are gonna clear coat it so its got a showroom shine, right?

my plan was to touch up the brown on the wheel arches with what i have left of the brown paint. Then paint gold on the bottom and rx body kit. Then clearcoat the sides, if not the whole car. The roof definitely needs re-clered

Interesting. But this ain't gold... This car is Mica Ruby originally. I like it. Repaint the top side with that then fade to the lower Black Mica. What I might do with what I've got.

Best I can do with the software I have to illistrate.

Edited June 7, 201114 yr by Quidam

http://www.indysworld.com/80s/brats/bratcolors/bratclrs.html

 

'83 Astral Gold

 

 

'79 Saffron Gold (I think it goes better with that brown)

 

I like this color gold

Can anyone make out the paint code?

Edited June 11, 201114 yr by MilesFox

the only Gen1 Gold paint code was code 58 Saffron Gold Metallic. I've got the paint chips... I think the lighting is playing into the color on your pics, but the actual color is a lot closer to your pic than the gen1 brat I posted... that color really seemed to fade badly....

Here's a pic of my 78 before I painted it - it was severly faded in some areas:

 

I honestly couldn't wait to get rid of that color - it just felt to Joe Dirtish to me...

I like this color gold

Can anyone make out the paint code?

 

Thats my GL

 

Astral Beige Metallic is the color name. Some places call it Astral Gold. Color code 393

 

I really dig the color. Pretty classy for such an silly, ugly, retro ride

 

I finally set on a color. I found rustoleum metallic 'gold rush'. not too gold, and it matches the already gold pinstripe on the car. It looks good to me!

 

this was what i had.

Is that a wyoming cowboys sticker i see on that rear window?