Stu
I have read some on this color. I believe Ford called this paint
"MYSTIC". It reflects color much like the feathers on a Hummingbird,
changing color as you view it from different angles. This paint is also
very expensive, at one time I heard that it cost $1000 per quart. I do not
know if that is still true.
Ron Fraser
-----Original Message-----
From: stuart_brennan@agilent.com [mailto:stuart_brennan@agilent.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 10:27 AM
To: Tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: Paint (non-tiger content)
So I was driving through Providence RI late last Saturday afternoon, on my
way
to do pit crew duties at that evening's competition. (Cool your hormones,
folks, this is a high school marching band pit crew. Load and unload a 24
foot
Ryder truck several times in one evening.) Anyway, I saw in my mirror that
I
was about to be passed by a fairly new Mercedes sedan that was a nice sort
of
maroon color. Now if I ever get around to painting the Tiger again, I might
consider something other than green, so I planned to glance at the car a
couple
times as it passed, to check out the shade. Imagine my surprise when a
yellowish greenish goldish Mercedes fender crept into my peripheral; view.
I
looked left, and the rear of the car was still maroon, then there was a
transition zone and the front was gold. As it completed the pass, the whole
side was gold, but the rear facing panels remained maroon.
I'd heard of this weird paint being used on some show cars, and didn't Jeff
Gordon or somebody do a night race with this stuff,? But it looks really
weird
on the street. Is this stuff more common in California? Does anyone know
how
it works? What do the cops write on tickets under "color"?
And, NO! I would NEVER put this stuff on my Tiger.
Stu
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