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Old Jun 20, 2011 | 11:37 PM
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What color should I paint my truck?!

Well heres the deal, I'm hopefully gonna have the rear long travel done on my truck by the end of summer which means I'm gonna have to install my rear fiberglass so I've decided at that point its time to repaint the truck instead of having the fenders mismatched from the rest of the truck. It's already starting to need it as the hoods starting to fade and the roof is faded like crazy. But I can't decide what color to do, I'm pretty much positive I want something different than black this time though. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated and anyone who is good with photoshop feel free to help out!

Here is a picture of the truck to give you an idea of what it looks like now, and the red on the wheels can be repainted any color too
 
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Old Jun 20, 2011 | 11:44 PM
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Red to match the wheels.
 
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Old Jun 20, 2011 | 11:52 PM
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Green
 
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Old Jun 20, 2011 | 11:59 PM
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White or Blue
 
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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 12:02 AM
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Green
Alot of people have told me green actually ha, but I'm not sure what shade of green to do. And blue is the color I thought about doing but I'm not sure how it'd turn out.
 
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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 12:03 AM
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Blue Flame Metallic or Race Red:

 
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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 12:06 AM
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Dang that blue does look good!
 
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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 12:08 AM
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I love the blue haha
 
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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 12:08 AM
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What color blue?

Here is a picture of my 2000 I used to have. It's deep wedgewood blue, but I always though Navy

 
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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 12:10 AM
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Blue Flame Metallic like on the 09+
 
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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 12:11 AM
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I love the blue haha
haha yea I love it too, thats what I wanted originally but I got mixed reactions from people when I asked what they thought. I don't want any color to dark where it looks almost black mostly because mine's already black.

Also anyone know how paint I will need to do the whole truck?
 
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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 12:19 AM
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Here's a guy on another forum who just repainted his supercrew blue flame and tuxedo black so I can ask him if you want. It might be in the thread but I didn't look too hard:
http://www.fordfullsize.com/forum/f7...t-thread-2934/
 
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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 12:30 AM
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Yea that blue looks awesome on his truck! But I wouldn't mind the color of jakes old truck either, and it'd probably be a little cheaper ha
 
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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 12:35 AM
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Ya with a drastic color change, there's a lot of body work that goes into it as you can see from his thread. Might be better to go with RBM like Jake's old truck if it is cheaper.
 
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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 12:38 AM
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Yea, I don't really mind the body work though its one of the few things I'm good at haha and it'll give me a project to do to keep me from getting bored for a while too. Luckily though, the places where most of the dents are on my truck (the front fenders and bed) will be gone with the new fiberglass anyways so that cuts out a lot of body work.
 
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