I am looking into painting my 64 SS black, but I want to have a deep cherry red tint to it. I am not sure exactly how to describe what I am talking about, but almost as if I would lay down a candy red first then paint black over it. Is this sort of thing possible, if so is it prohibitively expensive and will it last?

It is called "Black Cherry" and is just the opposite, you spray the black first, then the candy over that. The candy is transparent remember. So you apply the candy over the black and you see the black thru it.

It is one of the easier candy colors to apply, but still a CANDY color and VERY difficult.

I thought I would expand on my comment. Candy colors are made by applying this transparent candy paint over a base, thus the base will change the final color. The amount of candy you spray over the base will also change the color. The more coats, the more the final color will look like the candy color in the can. The hard part is that things like overlap will be adding more candy thus darkening the final color at that particular place. In other words, if you were to spray one coat on the door, then one coat on the fender, at the point the two meet, you would be applying TWO coats. At that point the color will be much darker than in the middle of the panel. This doesn't happen with painting experiance of course but to a newbe or even an experiance painter who hasn't done a lot of candies, it can be a disaster.

There are plenty of simple bc/cc colors that look similar to the Black Cherry candy color, I recommend them instead.