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Old Grumpy
My son's '69 SportsRoof was Acapulco Blue from the factory with a standard blue interior. By the time he bought it in '94, the car had been repainted to some shade of maroon resembling Vintage Burgundy, but without the metallic. Later we had it repainted to Royal Maroon, an authentic '69 color, but he hated it and eventually had it repainted a darker non-metallic shade of maroon. I had a '69 Corvette had a scruffy original Le Mans Blue paint job and I didn't particularly like it, but the car was a matching #s 427, so I had it repainted in the same Le Mans Blue. The painter did a magnificent job on the car and it wound up winning a best paint job award at a really large Corvette show. After the repaint it was really stunning. I'm not a big fan of Black Jade either. Looks too much like olive drab. But if the car is original and in good shape, have it repainted in the original color. If it is otherwise modified then you can do what you want. Please don't wrap it. I've seen guys who painted vintage Corvettes with Rustoleum and a roller (lotsa between coat sanding) that I would prefer to a wrap.Thanks for the input. I didn't think a wrap would please me but since it is original I thought I would ask. Yes that's her on the left, and no, she isn't a rare car. The color is currently that dark metallic green from the 60s known as Jade Black or Black Jade by some. You've convinced me to paint it...now I just have decide on the color.