post your pics! I am thinking about painting my 85 coupe grabber blue
post your pics! I am thinking about painting my 85 coupe grabber blue
Do a Goggle search and you will find some Fox Mustangs in Grabber Blue. Most are Aero cars, but will give you the basic look.
Obviously your car and you can paint it any color you want. My .02 worth (that you didn't really ask for ) is that the Grabber Blue is a cool color, but just doesn't work as well as hoped on the Fox Body. I can't tell you exactly why, but for me the color just doesn't "Look Right" I like the color on the ole '69/'70 cars and it looks good on the new S197 Mustangs, but something is off on the Fox with that color.
If you are dead set on the color, then IMHO you need to add plenty of Black or Charcoal Gray (it is an '85 model ) accents to help tone down the Grabber Blue and break it up a bit. Then it can look better. Again all of this is my personal opinion and yours may vary.
Trey
"I Don't build it hoping for your approval! I built it because it meets mine!"
"I've spent most of my money on Mustangs, racing, and women... the rest I just wasted."
Mustangs Past: Too many to remember!
Current Mustangs:
1969 Mach 1
1979 Pace Car now 5.0/5 speed
1982 GT Stalled RestoModification
1984 SVO Still Waiting Restoration
1986 GT Under going Wide Body Conversion Currently
Current Capris:
1981 Capri Roller
1981 Capri Black Magic Roller Basket Case
1982 Capri RS 5.0/4spd T-top Full Restoration Stalled in TX
1984 Capri RS T-top Roller
1983-84 Gloy Racing Trans Am/IMSA Body Parts
Have to agree with wraith- it looks kind of - -meh.
Much better looking in darker blue
1983 Mustang G.T. No-option stripper- I like strippers.
5.0, GT40P heads, Comp Cams XE270HR-12 on 1.6 rockers, TFI spring kit, Weiand 174 blower, Holley 750 mechanical secondarys, Mishimoto radiator, Edelbrock street performer mechanical pump, BBK shortys, T-5 conversion, 8.8 rear, 3.73 gears, carbon fiber clutches, SS Machine lowers, Maximum Motorsport XL subframes, "B" springs.
This one, 4eye betta
Mike
1986 Mustang convertible ---> BUILD THREAD
Past Fox-chassis "four eyes":
1983 Mercury Cougar LS
1986 Ford Thunderbird ELAN
1980 Capri RS Turbo
Work in progress website ---> http://carb-rebuilds-plus.boards.net/
The two posted so far look more like '03 Mach 1 Azure Blue than Grabber..
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Brad
'79 Mercury Zephyr ES 5.0L GT40 EFI, T-5
'17 Ford Focus ST
'14 Ford Fusion SE Manual
I painted mine Eastwood's Royal Blue with black trim.
Scotty
1985 Fox Notch 4-banger Ranger tube header Eastwood Royal Blue
1988 Fox LX 5.0 AOD Vert BBK 170mph speedo Candy Apple Red
1999 Mustang Coupe V6 Auto Chrome Yellow -Daily Driver.
Past Pony's.....
68 Coupe Inline-6 3-Speed-Man. Primer
78 II Hatch 302 3-Speed-Auto Sunroof Black
81 4-Eye Coupe 4-Banger 4-Speed-Man. White
When I think of grabber blue, two cars come to mind before most others. The shortened Supercoupe and the 89 choptop mustang, both built by Autokraft back in the early 90's.
http://www.autokraftnebraska.com/Cus...Choptopweb.htm
this is mine. competition orange. maybe I should keep that color. it needs a repaint. overall its not too bad.
Scotty
1985 Fox Notch 4-banger Ranger tube header Eastwood Royal Blue
1988 Fox LX 5.0 AOD Vert BBK 170mph speedo Candy Apple Red
1999 Mustang Coupe V6 Auto Chrome Yellow -Daily Driver.
Past Pony's.....
68 Coupe Inline-6 3-Speed-Man. Primer
78 II Hatch 302 3-Speed-Auto Sunroof Black
81 4-Eye Coupe 4-Banger 4-Speed-Man. White
thanks!
There just aren't enough orange foxes out there. Grabber blue is cool too, though...
You could move to Gainesville, FL and paint it BOTH! You'd get some free beers out of that.
lol....I may keep the orange. not too sure just yet
Solid shade Grabber blue, green, orange, yellow, need a balanced amount of black to break up the brightness.
A tiny bit of a third accent color or chrome can work.
White, argent, stripes also work.
Orange body color with black and argent ok, like the 80's GT emblems.
Take a ft spoiler in body color. It don't work. Black only.
Trim- pretty much has to be non-gloss black.
The coupe in post #4 is almost there
Needs all the black body side moldings to sport it up.
Black door trim, molding, mirrors instead of body color.
Lose the black roof stripe.
Black pinstripe accent may work.
Traditional hood blackout has always been matte, flat, satin. Never gloss.
Chrome rims ok.
Funny how some items and combos work and dont.
Like Magnum 500 wheels. Sharp on 60's-70's cars. Not so on newer.
Vice versa with TRX.
if I stay with my competition orange or change the color I will keep the black on the car. totally agree about needing black on the car.
DarranOriginally Posted by BLUECRAPI
1982-1C (Black) GT T-Top:http://vb.foureyedpride.com/showthre...he-Road-Thread
1986-9L (Oxford White) SVO: http://vb.foureyedpride.com/showthre...d-did-1986-SVO
1979 (85:Tangerine) Coupe (my son's): http://vb.foureyedpride.com/showthre...gerine-Machine
1979 (3F:Light Medium Blue) Coupe (one day to be my other son's!) http://vb.foureyedpride.com/showthre...um-Blue-Bomber!
very nice!
Attachment 117563
Does NOT work for me. YMMV of course.
Mike
My '78 Fairmont build - http://vb.foureyedpride.com/showthre...539-78-Big-Red
I honestly like the look and think it looks pretty good. There is enough black to help balance out the Grabber Blue IMHO. The dark tinted windows really help and without that it might now work as well.
As many have suggested just as I did early on, there needs to be enough black/charcoal grey to offset the Brightness of the Grabber Blue. Balance it out well and it can be a really good look. Too little and Grabber Blue, Competition Orange, Lime Green, Retina Piercing Yellow, etc. all become too over powering on virtually any car and you get a washed out look that IMHO just doesn't do the car justice. Best of Luck!
Trey
"I Don't build it hoping for your approval! I built it because it meets mine!"
"I've spent most of my money on Mustangs, racing, and women... the rest I just wasted."
Mustangs Past: Too many to remember!
Current Mustangs:
1969 Mach 1
1979 Pace Car now 5.0/5 speed
1982 GT Stalled RestoModification
1984 SVO Still Waiting Restoration
1986 GT Under going Wide Body Conversion Currently
Current Capris:
1981 Capri Roller
1981 Capri Black Magic Roller Basket Case
1982 Capri RS 5.0/4spd T-top Full Restoration Stalled in TX
1984 Capri RS T-top Roller
1983-84 Gloy Racing Trans Am/IMSA Body Parts
that looks nice. just enough black
Love Ford Grabber blue on a fox.
Jess
Previously owned;
1979 Mustang, v6 swapped to EFI 393, custom installed m122 blower, 4r70w trans, Megasquirt II, T-top swaped in.
1990 Mustang, 545 BBF, C-4 with brake, ladder bars.
1983 Mustang, 1984 SVO Mustang
1984 Mustang convertible, v6 swapped to 351
1986 Mustang GT, 1989 Mustang GT convertible
1992 Mustang coupe, 4 swapped to 302
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