I have a 69 chevelle malibu that i want to paint but i dont know what color. I dont know how much it matters in the end when i have to sell it if it is worth painting it an orignial color. or will it sell too if it has a really nice color nice paint job, but just not an original color. Is dark blue a color for a 1969 chevelle malibu. If not what are some. did the chevelle in 69 have raceing stripes. would that hurt the final sale of the car or would it boost the sale. i dont want to ruin the car by painting stripes and not an orginal color. I Just think it would look a lot cooler with stripes.

If you are restoring it to original with the eventual idea of reselling it - go strictly original, but if you are building YOUR car for YOU to enjoy, then do it like you want it. It's up to you how you want it. Decide what you want to end up with - show, collector, driver, beater - then make it that way!! YOU have to decide.

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thanks but a car like that with unoriginal paint and stripes wont sell?

69CM, Make up your mind - in your first post you seem timid about going non-original. After 283 gives you the proper reply you seem to take the modified side.

As far as I'm concerned, if you can't make up your mind on what color you would like to have on your car someone should relieve you of that pressure by taking the car off your hands. I'm sorry, I know that seems overly harsh, its just that I have never understood why someone would want to anguish over such matters - and meanwhile deprive themselves of what they really want all because of some future unknown buyer of your car when you decide to move on to something else. Man, this is supposed to be all about having some FUN, just do it your way and never look back http://www.chevelles.com/forum/smile.gif

Ok, on to my Chevelles and my thoughts on color. The Bomber was originally Granada Gold - a color I never did like even when it was new. When (and if) the Bomber gets repainted it will likely be in Marina Blue which is a color I've always thought looked real good. My latest purchase kind of suprised me when I discovered that it was originally Plum Mist (under several layers of repaints). I found a partially protected part of the door jamb and polished out the original Plum Mist paint and have been showing it to everybody because it is an unusual color. I decided I liked it, and I've been suprised at how many positive responses it gets when people look at the polished up section. I even went out and ordered vanity plates "PLUM 67". Then, this last week I was at a show and saw a '55 first series Chevy truck painted in Plum - only it looked even better than I thought it should have. The owner verified that it had indeed been painted Plum, but with a twist; it was a custom blended Candy Plum. It looked so good that I'm going to get the guy to let me get a digital spectrometer to read the paint, so that I can mix up some more of this Candy Plum (he doesn't have the mixing instructions, it was painted six years ago).

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"Bomber" '67 El Camino, Beater comes back to life.
Was 350/TH350 14.90 @ 93mph, 360,000+ miles on car
Now 406 roller, 340rwhp, more hp coming, 3.08 gears
Street radials, left in drive, 13.20 e.t.@108.35 mph
*New* added Plum Mist '67 to collection