Underside of car: body color or black?

[Musclerodz]

I plan to drive my Camaro when fiinished so I know the obvious choice would be black for sanitary reasons. I would prefer to paint it body color for detail and contrast. I know rock chips would so more as well. I thought I read here somewhere about a 3M clearcoat treatment to help prevent damage. Does anyone else remember it being mentioned in a thread? What are your opinions on this issue if you had the choice. Thanks.

Mike

[T Bell]

I really don't see the point in matching the top paint with the underside. I plan to do a undercoating like Line-X or something. If that is deemed too expensive, I would just go with black. With maybe a chipguard in it.

[Musclerodz]

There is no point other than I am anal about detail and body color since it will be red would show much more detail rather than hide the work. I plan to line-x the inside floor for sound deadning.

Mike

[BC69]

Its your call. You are right, the body color will emphasize the work underneith a bit more, but it makes for more cleaning too. If you look there are a mix on the site I am sure you have been checking pics, some cars do some dont.

The chevelle Scott and Jody drove on tour had body color underside, and they drove it alot.

Do what you want, it is your car, and itll look good either way.

Tim

[Roarvette]

On the Roarvette, I am going to use a product called Hippo Liner. It is available from Glue Products, and probably other places as well. 1-800-771-1863. It is a truck bed liner material. The part # BCYH is around $75.00 and I will need two packages to do the entire bottom of the Roarvette. The best part, is that it can be mixed with 6 oz. of polyurethane paint to get a color match. I plan on doing a dark grey, to contrast the silver powdercoat on the chassis, and the dark silver that I am planning to use on the body.
The firewall and inner wheel wells will be the same dark grey, but will be smooth and painted. The bottom will be same color but truck bed liner. This seems like a great way to have your cake and eat it too. It goes on with brush roller or undercoating gun.
I'll be spraying mine in the next month or so.

Roarvette

[DCreations]

Body color it can always be touched up down the road.

[Musclerodz]

I am not looking for someone to make up my mind, just other people opinions. I will porbably be argueing with myself right up to putting paint in the gun.

Mike

[907rs]

Another body color vote.

[Musclerodz]

Is your wheelwells blue or black? That is probably the reason I am undecided is the wheel wells. I don't want to touch them up!

Mike

[Derek69SS]

Do you intend to do any wheelies with it?

IMHO, it all depends on the car and the color. There has to be some contrast, like body-color floors, with black framerails/suspension goodies.

Also, any bright or light colors look horrid if they are visible through the grille, in the wheelwells, or hang below the rocker panels... just my opinion though.