Too Yellow?

My '73L and '71 'Goose are yellow, more greenish yellow than yours. I love the color. My pantera came with the pantera scripting on the rockers. I like the "retro" look of the rocker scripting. See them on my web site.

Hello Danny,

welcome to the DeTomaso Internet Community (aka DTIC). Glad to have you with us.

I think your car is perfect just as it is. Its not too pale, not too dark, its not orange-ish like school bus yellow. It reminds me of a Lamborghini yellow.

Yellow was Alejandro DeTomaso's favorite Pantera color. The first Pantera was yellow.

I have a couple of ideas for you. Play with this picture in photoshop, experiment with different accents, and trim. If you don't have photoshop, then print several copies of this picture and experiment with marking pens.

You can also look at all of the Pantera pictures that are available on-line, such as at the Pantera International web site, under the tab "feature stories":

http://www.panteracars.com/news1010.html

perhaps you'll find one picture that will grab you just right and make you say, that's it! Or perhaps you'll come up with something unique, and you'll be the inspiration for someone else in the future. Or perhaps your cars classic look will grow on you. Isn't it great that you can personalize the Pantera without feeling guilty?

take care, George

Or maybe like this.

Don't do it! It's perfect just the way it is. And a car as good looking as your Pantera deserves a bright color (like your yellow) that screams look at me. Then again, I'm partial to yellow.

Do what YOU want. Maybe start with the graphics and see how that sits with you before paintaing anything else. But your car is stunning as it is right now!

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Originally posted by DannyOcean:
My "new" car ('74 Electron Yellow) is a little too yellow for my taste... All comments welcome.

Danny, I'd leave her as-is. I think the car looks great. Just in case you're not sure...

Mark; You're such a wizz with the Photoshop and it's great to be able to visualize the potential effect.

Danny; I would say definitely keep it original for the color scheme, it's a great looking car too nice a shade of yellow for the blackout.

If I were to change anything about this car (my personal taste) I'd switch to the euro bumperettes (or Kirk Evans bumpers that hide the shock holes as well) as I find the black 'L' bumper somewhat overpowering against the clean lines of the yellow.

Julian

I think the yellow is great. Plenty of red and black Panteras (not that there is anything wrong with that).
Try Kirk's bumpers. It will minimize the black against yellow escpecially at the front of the car. The rear bumper has always been less annoying to me.

I was going to say leave it alone but Mark Charltons post looks pretty cool.

Mark maybe you can do my car in Orange one of these days

I love your car as is .. but Marks photoshop changes look nice also.

Ron

Thanks, all. Great response to my first post. Looking forward to more. After seeing the leopard-spotted car in Mr. Pence's post, I've decided to duplicate that. The perfect balance of black/yellow...

The photo-chop helped. I think I'll start with the Pantera script first and see how it goes from there. The black hood & engine cover may be too much.

I've e-mailed Kirk Evans about his bumpers. Those are a must.

Thanks again,

D. Ocean

Danny - That car is beautiful. Pantera across the bottom would look nice as well. As everyone has said, do whatever looks good to you.

Mark if I post a photo of my car, could you photochop a full resto on it?

Looks freat. If you had Argent Silver Campys on the car, it would tone it down a bit. Why change a good thing.

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Originally posted by Mark Mensen:
Mark maybe you can do my car in Orange one of these days

Here you go Mark. Careful, the paint's still wet. Sorry for the thread-drift.

Wasn't this car or at least the picture in eBay lately?

I'd leave the paint alone it looks great just the way it is. But that's just me.

I also second Julian with going with the Euro bumperettes or pre-L bumpers.

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Originally posted by Joules5:
Mark; You're such a wizz with the Photoshop and it's great to be able to visualize the potential effect. I'd switch to the euro bumperettes (or Kirk Evans bumpers...

Julian

Thanks Juian. You know if we keep working on this, we might be able to rescue this wreck and turn it into something!

Mark,

nice work!

John

Is anyone aware of the availability of a rocker panel script in the fashion of the Porsche Carrera script?