Jewl Green Or Reef Blue?

[tommyturbo]

My 95 MTX is the Deep Jewl Green, from the factory. I did see that 95 MTX's even in green are somewhat rare, at 786 Produced. It is a very late build date too, 5-95.

The paint is absolutely done on this car, and it does need to be painted bad.
I'm trying to decide between keeping it the factory Deep Jewl Green, or going with another ford color called Reef Blue. It was a color on 93 Mustangs, it's more of a dark teal, more blue in it, but it's not the bright teal you might see on other cars of that time.

I do plan on having a good job done, door jambs, trunk jambs.

Would love to get opinions on this.

 

[intimdatr]

If you are going to have very professorial job done, i vote Blue. Im a sucker for SHO's in Blue.

 

[Irish Pride]

Jewel*

 

[rubydist]

green SHOs are rare only in the way that ugly girls are rare.

 

[AREA 91]

I vote blue.

 

[SHO Continental]

Blue!!!

 

[SHOdded]

http://www.allfordmustangs.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/114038

Gives an idea of the BLUE we're looking at. Not to be confused with Moonlight Blue at all!

I vote for Jewel Green in this instance.

 

[SHO Continental]

 

[SHOdded]

Need to do a mockup to prove it, but RB may be better suited for Gen I?

 

[zak]

tommy - cost will be a factor. If you change to blue you will need to paint the door jams and inside door edges which raises cost.

You can offset this cost sometimes if you are illing to do much of the paint prep/disassembly/reassembly

 

[kevinspann]

I don't think reef blue will look good, personally.

 

[platoribs]

Jewel Green may be over represented during the G1-G2 SHO production years.

But that Blue compared to a pristine factory Jewel Green... no comparison, no question, JG ftw. To say nothing of the lower cost to shoot it the same color and not make it look like a cheap job (read: engine bay, windows, door/trunk wells).


Of course I've got a 95 Jewel (of a) Green SHO with a pretty decent finish so I may be slightly biased.
Pay no attention to the wheel gap, I live up a wicked rutty trail.:laugh_ti:

 

[LJRuddy]

I am also one of the weirdos who think the JG SHOs are really nice to look at.

 

[SHO_OFF]

I would either stay Jewel Green, or look at the '95 Mustang Teal Blue. 3 of the 9 SHO's I've owned have been Green. A '92 and Two '93's...

Here is the '95 Mustang Teal Blue

 

[SHOdded]

If I had a choice, I would probably go with burgundy, or cinnamon metallic (gen IV SHOs)

 

[Ocnaj]

Jewel Green FTW. It is definitely a better looking color.

 

[tommyturbo]

Thanks for everyone thoughts. The teal color on the 95 mustang above is the color my 94 SC is, and it is a good color, with a gray interior, I don't think it would look good with mocha. The reef blue is much darker (mustang LX pic above), and I think could work with mocha interior.

Reds are nice, I do like ford electric red, but I am not looking to do the engine compartment, so that would be too obvious a change.

I will probably stick with the green, just for ease of repainting purposes, but I haven't made up my mind.

 

[cowboy0ne]

I got a Opel frost 94 I love the color but reef blue vs green id go blue btw anyone know where I can buy Opel frost id love to repaint mine

 

[tommyturbo]

Well, after some changes last week at work (laid off) paint job is on hold. Glad I hadn't just sent the car to the body shop.

 

[intimdatr]

Well, after some changes last week at work (laid off) paint job is on hold. Glad I hadn't just sent the car to the body shop.

Ouch! Hope everything works out!