what color should i paint my 69' el camino?
 

just looking for some suggestions of what color i should get her painted :)

The engines not in it right now so thats why its sittin so high . :cool:
http://i39.tinypic.com/2d8lee.jpg

White. It stays herds cooler in the summertime, it's highly visible, it's (believe it or not) lighter weight than most other paints. Also doesn't tend to draw cop cars. Of course, you may not like white. In that case I would like to suggest ... ...white.

Orange field (top too) with white stripes. I like factory colors and stripping. Redo the chrome too.

another vote for white here..

By the way rivereye, havent really thought that white is lighter than most paint.. hmmmm.. will keep that in mind..

White's a little harder to keep clean,as darker pigments hide dirt better. If you keep it washed and waxed, nothing looks better. It's great for pinstriping and other treatments, shows them off in a good contrast.

Gwampa's got a good suggestion,too. Nothing turns heads better than a classic in original paint. It's almost like a journey into the past. You have to have seen at least one classic like that. Makes you go "Whoa!".

Rivereye makes a good point about White...and since my Impala is white I agree. So if you don't use Orange, White is right.

I think it should be silver w/black stripes

I'm a fan of silver with black stripes. To be honest with you all, I really hate white vehicles, maybe it's because I live in Michigan and we see way too much white, maybe it's because they look like service vehicles.

I would say:

Black with Silver stripes (or Inverted)
Purple with Yellow stripes
Orange with black
solid blue

im just going to throw this out... but my auto body teacher told me about his 69. and btw... i consider you damn lucky to own that beautiful car. i love those babies. and the SS is just icing. but my teacher told me how hes got 43 years of every magazine of hot rod, classic car, muscle car all those... i mean he said he has a room of mags alone. and hes paged through them all. and he chose how he wants his paint. he said there aint a lot of brown cars in mags or at shows. you just never see brown looking cars. and hes painting it in what seems like a very good color brown with some other color. white sounds good but i think white and another color. like some two tone. make that baby shine man. shine it all. i know its common but a nice metallic black. deep black and ghost flames. or ghost something. when i think camino i think good car but bad ass twin side.

My vote goes to black.

Can't beat the look :)

http://www.72ss454elcamino.com/web%2...arlBlack71.jpg

http://yourgarage.nbc.com/sn/b/b/4/a...c0134c1363.jpg

The second one has metallic red stripes...looks great.