Great color for an Avanti!

[Hawklover]

Saw a new GMC SUV today finished in the most amazing color red!, it I were to paint my Avanti again, this would be the color!

[rockne10]

Reviving an old comment: "Without pictures, it didn't happen."

[StudeRich]

To each his own I guess, but IMHO there is NO Color better than the '63 Avanti Red (Honduras Maroon Metallic) Color !



Here is a 2023 GMC Arcadia SLT FWD in Volcanic Red Tintcoat.
"TINTCOAT" ?? What?

Without seeing this in Person, it looks the same as Avanti Red.

[Hawklover]

Reviving an old comment: "Without pictures, it didn't happen."

I totally agree, but alas I had no way to capture the vehicles image for all to see;-)

[Hawklover]

To each his own I guess, but IMHO there is NO Color better than the '63 Avanti Red (Honduras Maroon Metallic) Color !



Here is a 2023 GMC Arcadia SLT FWD in Volcanic Red Tintcoat.
"TINTCOAT" ?? What?

Without seeing this in Person, it looks the same as Avanti Red.

Never liked the OEM Avanti red, which is why when I painted my Avanti in 1974 I eschewed said color, and repainted the car with Cadillac San Mateo Red (aka Titan Red Metallic)............a beautiful color. But!!!!!!!!!!! with the cost of a re-spray (needing a 2nd Mortgagee) I'll pass and let the next "caretaker" of my car assume the joy and the cost and the thrill of a new paint job:-)

[PackardV8]

FWIW, the new GM reds are a three-step process which is very expensive to do the first time and very complicated to match if it should need repair.

jack vines

[bezhawk]

I painted my old Avanti around 2000 in a tri-stage pearl red. I too think the factory Avanti red is awful and looks like a weathered brick. (or tomato soup)

[Hawklover]

In the flesh, Titan Red

[StudeRich]

Looks like a cross between Avanti Red (Maroon) and Avanti Maroon (Burgundy).

Maroon always Trumps RED, at least it is Not Red.

[Dwight FitzSimons]

I, too, think the Avanti Red is a little too light and too copperish for my taste. My '64 Avanti was painted a 1980s GM red, which I like much better. And, it's close enough to the original that I haven't been asked what color it is. I have attached two pix with different lighting. The car looks even better now that I have those good handling BF Goodrich Radial TA blackwall tires on it.
--Dwight

[Hawklover]

Dwight take a close look at my car. In 1967 I removed the front springs and replaced with 526134 HD and to gild the Lilly as it were, I put in 1/2 inch spacers, still sits up beautifully. In the rear, back in 1993 I brought the car to a well known HD truck spring facility (think Peterbilt, White, Mack etc). The owner at the time was an old gent who was doing springs at that location since the end of the Korean war. So after sitting down to discuss what I wanted, and he looking up specifics he advised me to return when the steel material arrived at his shop. Well this turned out to be an exercise in total frustration. I wanted HD springs made up, and initially he only ordered enough to make standard springs, no extra leaf as I requested. Ok, I now wait for the extra steel to arrive. In time I return and the HD springs are installed. Job gets finished, and SOAB!, the rear sits as low as it did before any work was undertaken.;-( To make a long story short, I made them take those springs out three additional times until I liked how the rear sat............they had to place the steel in that industrial oven and re-arc to get the lift I wanted. There is no doubt the shop made no profit on me,($350.00) and in the end I love how the car sits in the rear, and like I said this was done in 1993.

[Hawklover]

And this sitting in a parking lot.

[Dwight FitzSimons]

Dwight take a close look at my car. In 1967 I removed the front springs and replaced with 526134 HD and to gild the Lilly as it were, I put in 1/2 inch spacers, still sits up beautifully. In the rear, back in 1993 I brought the car to a well known HD truck spring facility (think Peterbilt, White, Mack etc). The owner at the time was an old gent who was doing springs at that location since the end of the Korean war. So after sitting down to discuss what I wanted, and he looking up specifics he advised me to return when the steel material arrived at his shop. Well this turned out to be an exercise in total frustration. I wanted HD springs made up, and initially he only ordered enough to make standard springs, no extra leaf as I requested. Ok, I now wait for the extra steel to arrive. In time I return and the HD springs are installed. Job gets finished, and SOAB!, the rear sits as low as it did before any work was undertaken.;-( To make a long story short, I made them take those springs out three additional times until I liked how the rear sat............they had to place the steel in that industrial oven and re-arc to get the lift I wanted. There is no doubt the shop made no profit on me,($350.00) and in the end I love how the car sits in the rear, and like I said this was done in 1993.

Mine sits a little high in the front as you can see in both of my pix. I'm not sure I will be doing anything about that as I will probably be selling it.

Your car looks good. Your car's color is pretty close to Avanti Maroon, which I think is beautiful.

--Dwight

[j.byrd]

Our car was the sort of "tan-ish-gold" that so many came with, and as soon as I could, we bought some Avanti Medium Red Metallic and shot that ! I wanted it Turquoise, but a friend beat me to it with his, so we went with the red. It looked pretty good, but I still wish I had painted it Turquoise anyway.... 1st two pics are as sold and then with the Shelby mags I ran most of the time we owned it. And last, the day I got it.... bleah !!!

[arkusvt]

for those of you who may not have noticed, the last 2 or 3 years of red that mazda uses is awesome. when you see one on the street, especially in sunlight, it leaps right out at you.