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Color for the Hellcat

6.2K views 18 replies 16 participants last post by  conceptmachine  
#1 ·
Okay folks.........this HELLCAT needs to be different, totally different as far as color is concerned. I think only two colors should be offered.......Metallic Brown or Gold. Those colors would let you know it was a Hellcat. One of the most beautiful cars I have ever seen was a metallic Brown 68 Charger with black pinstripes.
 
#2 ·
Leopard spotted, pink panther, or tiger striped.
 
#3 ·
Maybe they will offer a top banana variation??


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#6 ·
Not a fan or brown or gold on a muscle car. To make the color of the Hellcat unique, why not a custom candy apple? I know that it is more expensive and labor intensive (silver base coat, several colors of a transparent red, a few coats of clear, and final sanding, polishing, and buffing) and, probably, would not be practical for a mass produced car, but we can dream, can't we?
 

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#7 ·
Not a fan or brown or gold on a muscle car. To make the color of the Hellcat unique, why not a custom candy apple? I know that it is more expensive and labor intensive (silver base coat, several colors of a transparent red, a few coats of clear, and final sanding, polishing, and buffing), and, probably, would not be practical for a mass produced car, but we can dream, can't we?
Yea, but I think Chrysler is thinking that the SRT8 brand will be for that type of thing. Low production, special parts, colors, hand made type things....
 
#8 ·
I'd like to see those colors offered as well. At least a rendering to see what it would look like. Most awesome color I've seen on any car was a rootbeer color with dust metalflake. WOW was it nice. Takes your breath away... and still remember it today and it was 35 years ago.
I'd like to see several colors with it... a red, blue, green, gold or brown.
I'm sure there will be a black... hope some other nice colors. Don't know if sublime is going to come in it... since it supposed to be a 2013 color.
 
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I mentioned the Metalflake Brown and Gold so this "would" be different than the others that are in the wild colors. Having it in all the other colors (including Black especially) would make it blend in and be unidentifiable at a glance which would defeat the purpose. There was a very good reason Hurst cars were only offered in two combinations of colors down through the years. Think of the Olds 442's for instance that were Hurst. That's my point. the same "RootBeer" Brown is what I am thinking of also. "It" would stand out.....period.

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#14 ·
LOL, define "old fart". I just turned 48 yesterday :)
The candy rootbeer would be a killer finish but like was already stated, that would be a lot of hand finishing that probably just would not happen.

Another option would be a pearl finish like my toxic orange. But, a rootbeer brown base with a gold pearl might yield a unique color.

I think if they went with any of the "skittles" colors then it would not stand out from any of the other Challengers that have been produced.
 
#16 ·
If brown or gold was an available color that would be ok, as long as there was something else, anything else. Those are the worst two colors, period, even worse than the "frost blue" or "seafoam green" colors of the past. The local dealer tried and tried to sell me a brown Durango years ago. No, hell no!
 
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I like that old green and would give it a serious look. My brother and I had a 74' Charger and Challenger in that dark green matalic. Can' remember the name of it, but I liked that color!

Aluminum would be cool, but it would need clear coated. I kinda like that new paint they've been doing on some newer cars where they chrome paint it, and then paint it a candy color over the top. Gives it a super glowing color. I'm old school and prefer those. One color they haven't done on the challenger is an aqua color... Must look too girlish in that color, but I'd like to see it anyway.