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When these flip paints came out I initially thought they were well cool. Then every chav-wagon on the block was painted some flip shade (usually electric blue-purple or emerald green-gold-pink) and everyone was like "eeeeeew". This was not helped by the shoddy execution of many of them and the cheap pigments used in some. Then some of the older cheaper jobs started losing their flip and ended up in these yukky nondescript browny messes.
But this morning I saw a really nice Mk2 Goof in a flip paint, gleaming and shifting in the morning spring sun and I thought, yeah, I like that.
So am I sick in the head or can these things "work"?
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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I once saw a Flip-flop paintjob, that was just dark-green to black. It was really adorable. But I say 99% of all other flips are flops for me. Doesn´t matter how expensive the where.
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Two words.
'Global Hypercolor'
Don't do it!!! :-)
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Rewind ten years and every car within 10 miles of Sunderland had chromoflair paint I reckon it can work well with the right application of paint/choice of colours. Remember that 'salt flats' Roadrunner? I'm sure that was rolling with satin-finished gold/red chromoflair paint at one stage. It worked really well; the satin made the 'changes' less brash, more subtle and more smooth/graded. I remember having 'change colour cars' as a kid that changed colour with temperature...A Corvette Stingray which went from red, through orange and to yellow as it warmed and a Trans Am which went from purple, through blue and to white. THAT would be cool. *n
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Top grammar tips! Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum
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Lol...i've been looking for a global hypercolour t-shirt for ages! Flip paint normally sickens me but there was an mazda 4 at the rotary meet i went to that had a purple to red one that was lovely. Cant help thinking most cars with it would look better in a straight shade...so i vote - fool
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Your car is not 'epic', this thread is not 'epic'....the OCEAN is epic, the UNIVERSE is epic.... please stop misusing this word!! It would appear Hotrods are the new VWs - aint fashion funny! '69 BUICK LESABRE 350
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DutyFreeSaviour
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I have to admit to admiring that pale blue the Alfa's use. It seems a bit more subtle, but can't be doing with any of the others - I was another initial, that looks great - wonder how it would be on the (insert car here) but that faded sharpish.
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Back from the dead..... kind of
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Two words. 'Global Hypercolor' Don't do it!!! :-) We had a thread about heat reactive paint before... it must be in the archives somewhere !
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I think Alsa do a heat reactive paint.
The Alfa is a pearl not a flip.
Also a "Flip-Flop" is a trade name for a particular kind of pearl layed over coloured bases which was fashionable in the 1970s. Metalflake Inc still make it!
I thought flip would be great for flames. I only saw one other person who thought this enough to do it, and IMO he chose the wrong colours for it as his flames flipped from purple to brown and brown flames are just wrong, even on a '57 Chevy. Or maybe especially on a '57 Chevy...
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Found this the other day and had been wondering where to post it... www.microtower.com/volvo/When the TVR Tuscan first came out with that blue green flip paint I thought it was the coolest thing on earth. Now, when I regularly see a Rover estate and a Nova with a similar job, not so much...
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Last Edit: May 8, 2008 8:07:46 GMT by stripey
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Lol...i've been looking for a global hypercolour t-shirt for ages! Flip paint normally sickens me but there was an mazda 4 at the rotary meet I went to that had a purple to red one that was lovely. Cant help thinking most cars with it would look better in a straight shade...so I vote - fool Not the "norm" for these cars but works quite well i reckon...
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Rob
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I just can't get on with this at all... All I can see are young Polish gentlemen driving orange/green green/orange Rover 214s...
Not for me.
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Wasn't Nissan the first to offer it on production cars with the limited run of Primeras and Micras.
IIRC, if you needed a panel spraying after an accident, it basically wrote off the car because the paint is £150 a litre!
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Wasn't Nissan the first to offer it on production cars with the limited run of Primeras and Micras. IIRC, if you needed a panel spraying after an accident, it basically wrote off the car because the paint is £150 a litre! I think Hyundai started offering it on their Coupe years ago too. Personally I don't like it. I think if you have a well modified car, the flip paint just confuses the eye so you can't appreciate the bodywork.
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Wasn't Nissan the first to offer it on production cars with the limited run of Primeras and Micras. Yup...That's why there's so many of them in the North East. The paintshop guys were bringing in a flask (of 'tea'), filling it with paint and taking it home... *n
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Top grammar tips! Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum
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Thinking about this a bit more, I think the reason why I don't like these flip paints is that often, the colours used are minging. Gold, green and purple? NASTY! It would work much better if it was, say, three shades of the same colour. More subtle.
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mym
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Yup...That's why there's so many of them in the North East. The paintshop guys were bringing in a flask (of 'tea'), filling it with paint and taking it home... *n ROFL, why dosent that surprise me. explains some of the micras and primeras i keep seeing though
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Tim
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Rewind ten years and every car within 10 miles of Sunderland had chromoflair paint *n I could never figure out how anybody could afford a paintjob like that on a cheap hatch
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Wrong on so many levels. Leave it to the twerps in Rover 25s and Corsas etc with their big mouth bumpers and 'wikkid' kits innit.
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Corsa Apology Champion 2014.
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i saw a metro driving round huddersfield with flip paint, it was bog standard apart from the paint, it was awful but i loved it at the time
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sav
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I've seen so many hideous chav chariots shonking around with flip paint that I just can't see it being a good thing at all now. Maybe with colours which harmonise with each other it might work, but IMO it always seems to detract from the rest of the vehicle. Just a visual assault in all the wrong ways. I used to really like the pearlescent white Audis that were available years ago though. ;D
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