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:) My mates and i were sitting around last night brainstorming ideas as to what colour choice our friends R34 should be resprayed. There was obviously mixed suggestions but in my opinion i suggested something more mainsteam not too over the top even if he went down the path of a "kandy" respray. I guess my argument here is given the fact that cops are in force, vicroads are eyeing our "imports" and every other tom dick and harry with a "zorst" is getting EPAed, why would you want to attract unwanted attention if it had to be a daily driver. Keep it clean, definately no rice or "mugen...type r..." stickers(lol- vtec- YO!). Show cars are one thing but daily drivers are definately another. If it was upto me i would go pearl white, gun metal grey or kandy wine red. Something that makes a "im unique" statement but enough to get the message across to any cop eyeballing my car that im still following the rules. Anyway what do you guys think? What would you respray it if it were a daily driver or showcase masterpiece??
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yeah im with jezza, a nice shiny black car always looks awesome.

in all honesty i cant stand those candy coloured paint jobs - looks stupid to me.

Id rather a nice simple colour with some pearl but no f**king 'lime green' or 'electric blues'.

factory colour codes are always good because its always easy to get a colour match if you need to touch up/respray panels in the future. Plus a fresh paintjob is always gonna look mint.

Im getting my r32 respryed in the same factory metallic black.

Matte black.

I think the cheapest way to get something like it are the hot rod flats line of paints.

There was a pic of a matte black R34 GTR somewhere on the forum, but I can't find it. Here's one of the 35

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am in the same situation man only with a 33, was thinking black roof orange body or just pure lambo orange. but already been screwed over by fuzz and will definatley not pass rwc again i have decided to go really glossy black with a blue pearl over top to match my blue and black tri-spoke Advans :blush: .

good luck with it man, in the end as long as your happy nothing else matters.

Black look sweet but you'll be forever cleaning the thing. Finger prints, bird crap, dust, dirt, water stains from ya washers, pain in the ass if you ask me. Be different, Go Calsonic Blue with white rims *drool*

no...with black rims :blush:

stay away from bright "different" colours...they hurt the eyes. blue is good...not enough blues around

yeah im with jezza, a nice shiny black car always looks awesome.

in all honesty i cant stand those candy coloured paint jobs - looks stupid to me.

Id rather a nice simple colour with some pearl but no f**king 'lime green' or 'electric blues'.

Well said! I completely agree..

Matte black.

I think the cheapest way to get something like it are the hot rod flats line of paints.

There was a pic of a matte black R34 GTR somewhere on the forum, but I can't find it. Here's one of the 35

That 35 GTR was a vinyl job, not paint

That 35 GTR was a vinyl job, not paint

Oic, never mind then, my bad. Wish I could find that 34 pic.

Not sure how to describe this blue/green colour it looks unique without being overstated:

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Black is one of the worst colours to go......Cop bait IMO,they will see a gorgeous new black paint job and then follow up with a defect and a reaming.

Why do I say this? Every time a cop pulls me over (just minding my own business) they say the usual? "We pulled you over because of the car, shiny black paint, nice rims etc etc....."

White is the most inconspicious (spelling) colour you can get. They wont look twice unless your unleashing some externally venting gate at their car window etc :P

White is the most inconspicious (spelling) colour you can get. They wont look twice unless your unleashing some externally venting gate at their car window etc :P

True and you can always offset the white with some nice black LMGT4's!

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