Bronco back from paint

[JAFO]

Well, here it is. Finally. I like the color, but initially I was almost shocked. You will see me coming for sure. I think once I have everything bolted on it will look good.

 

[Bukin 67]

I think that color looks cool. Now you'll really get noticed!

 

[JAFO]

Thanks. I sure like it better than rusted metal, primer and a little blue mixed in. This was the early beginning....

 

[West Tn Dawg]

It looks great! I know it looks like WOW!, now, but when you start adding chrome, glass, tires and wheels, it will tone it down a bunch and will look really good!

SWEET!

 

[Prizefighter]

Looks good, I know you must be very excited. What color did you go with?

 

[Teal68]

I think it looks great! What is the color?

 

[doghows72]

It looks great. Just as long as they didn't metal flake the crap out of it like they did mine. It definitely changes as the goodies go on. Nice work.

 

[okie4570]

Looks good, I like it!

 

[jeff_gates]

it's the great pumpkin charlie brown...

I like it.

 

[Nathan43]

Looks awesome bud. Keep the updates coming.Nothing is more exciting than a project coming together.

 

[tmacstickman]

I love the color! Looking forward to seeing the progress.

 

[Tiko433]

2x thumbs up on the color ! Good job

 

[TheGanzman]

LQQKS great! I've had two brightly colored SUV's in the recent past; no shame in THAT game!

 

[gnsteam]

Fantastic! I would like to know the color as well. I'm looking into shades of orange for my 76.

 

[AZ73]

Totally jealous. Congrats!

 

[904Bronco]

It looks a little like Grabber Orange... A Ford color from the 70's and later...

(My 09 Mustang in the attached picture)

 

[cldonley]

That color is awesome! Texas Longhorns everywhere are proud. But seriously, that is a great color and will look awesome when all the good stuff is bolted on.

 

[sprdv1]

Great color chief. congrats. She'll look great w/everything back together

 

[elan]

This will look good once all the component's are attached. Depending if it has the optional Sport package, I find oranges and reds do well with chrome bumpers and stock caps on the wheels. If the roof is to go on, the white will tone down orange just so.

I like the color, well done.

 

[JAFO]

Thanks everyone.
1973 BMW Colorado Orange is the color.
What got me headed down the orange route was watching some car show and this guy had an old 1939 Bantam Truck that was Bantam Orange and black. It just looked cool. I tried and tried to find Bantam orange, but it was near impossible. I found one color chip, with color code that nobody could match using the numbers. So finally I went down to the Sherwin-Williams auto paint store and poured through paint chips. Finally came on three colors that I liked, close to the Bantam color. Bought three few ounces of color samples and went home and did test shots. I used a single stage urathane. It actually looked a little different than what I ended up with. The painter used the numbers I gave him and bought the Colorado orange in a two stage. Seems that the higher gloss looks different, but still good enough. I'll post the pic of my test shot I did in a bit.