Colour scheme for race car

[obrut]

I have a 73RS replica race car which has just completed its 5th tarmac rally and is in need of a little tidy up. I'll include links to a few pics below.

The tub came freshly painted midnight blue which is very dark and often confused for black. When I built it I bought some newly refurbished red Fuchs and went for a blue/red colour scheme - which I'm now over.

I'm about to strip all the stickers to have the rear guards resprayed.

Any thoughts as to a colour scheme than can be easily applied using stickers to a very dark blue car? I also have a second set of Fuchs which can be sprayed any colour.

One thought is one or two centre stripes in white with white wheels - but the wheels would be a pain to keep clean.

Another is one or two centre stripes in light silver with silver wheels.

Something different would be baby/gulf blue stripes/wheels...

Please put your creative hats on and send all ideas this way.

First scheme:
More pic's - Tarmac Rally

Second scheme:
Targa Tasmania Tarmac Rally - Story/Pics (longish)

ps: I'm anti Carrera stripes on replica cars...

[Doog]

Yellow Decals

Yellow fuchs.

[Langers]

How 'bout covering the whole car in a lot of orange vinyl...you know u want to

[Rich Lambert]

I vote for #1 scheme.

[Series900]

Rothmans livery, paint the hood,roof,tail white, stripe the red and gold, leave the bottom blue. Add hood mounted lights,Unmistakable rallye car

[masraum]

What about gulf colors?

[Zeke]

Red and blue are tough to look at. The combination can look good or not so good. I like the white or silver stripes. I don't think the Fuchs necessarily have to match. Natural Fuchs (bead blasted centers, polished lips) look good on any color scheme.

[Eric Coffey]

I think either yellow or green stripe/Fuchs.

Here are a couple (very) quick versions of your first pic:

[golfnow]

My vote would be for the first one. I like RED

[Jim Richards]

Ryan, here's what I'd suggest. Looking at this pic, imagine your midnight blue 911 with the narrow red stripe and the wider silver stripe + silver (or grey) painted Fuchs centers. White number circles and sponsor logos as necessary. Hope this helps...

[obrut]

Thanks all

Eric - can you redo that shot 2 more times? once with silver stripe/wheels and once with white stripe/wheels

What about a chrome stripe?

[Eric Coffey]

Ok, here are a couple more quick n' dirty resamples with silver and white:

[Langers]

Either yellow or silver stripes look quite nice.

[Adam]

Island said it best when he said:

"Dude, cover it in black velvet and paint a giant Elvis on the hood"

[bento]

I gotta say that while i wasn:t expecting to, but I really like that green mock up. With the green fuchs, i think it looks really nice.

db

[obrut]

I'm tending towards a silver stripe with natural (ie. stripped) light grey wheels.

Although I'm keen to see what it would look like with a light blue stripe and wheels - like this car of Timmin's



How about it Eric - can I get one more?

[Porschekid962]

psychadelic martini colors! or pink pig style, havent seen one done up that way.

[racea911]

Eric's black with green looks very cool! I love it.

[Eric Coffey]

Ok here you go:

[Crachian]

No question. Deep purple over Midnight blue: