CARabber!!!

[uwe]

Ich sammle nicht wegen Lackierungen.

[dadagoboi]

of any CAR basses that pop up i have not seen one in true candy apple red imo. they are closer to  chinese red or fire engine red. they are just not dark enough. i'm taking my color cue from the candy apple paints that are used on hot rods and custom cars and trucks. saw a nice 1955 chevy pickup in true CAR yestertday. in guitar land my lowly kramer p is the closest to a CAR i have seen. i sure your results will vary....

The original (and IMO only) Candy Apple Red was named that because it was translucent red tinted clear over a metallic, preferably gold basecoat and it looked like a 'candy apple'.  You can call a solid color candy apple but it ain't.  Candy colors are tints over metallics and there are a lot more than red.

[Grog]

At my age, you have to work with all kinds of tricks and self-deceptions, you just wait, Rob!

About 25 years ago, I used "Self Inflicked Brainwashing" to con myself into quiting smoking. I decided that I would put the money, that otherwise would have gone up in smoke, into something I would still have at the end of the day. I started collecting guitars, basses, amps & other guitar related stuff. Now I have a GAS addiction..................

[uwe]

The original (and IMO only) Candy Apple Red was named that because it was translucent red tinted clear over a metallic, preferably gold basecoat and it looked like a 'candy apple'.  You can call a solid color candy apple but it ain't.  Candy colors are tints over metallics and there are a lot more than red.

My G 3 matches that car's color pretty closely, if not with the same lustrous depth. But then it can't drive either. 

[Grog]

Isn't it close to Sparkling Burgandy?

[dadagoboi]

No base, no candy.  Metallics are close but the metal bits are suspended in the translucent so the finish doesn't have the depth of a true candy.

Vintage CAR over gold base, not a very good shot.

[lowend1]

My CAR P-Bass Special...

[uwe]

Yeah, sparkling burgundy is not bad as a comparison except that it turns montezuma gold-brown over the decades, something I have not seen CAR do yet and my oldest CAR basses are 30 years old. Maybe they need another five years. 35 was the age of my once burgundy sparkle EB-2 and that was already gold-brown when I got it.

[patman]

My favorite Fender color...bar none...

Had a CAR p bass years ago.

I like the candy cola color on the current Fenders, too.

[EvilLordJuju]

IIRC that red one was made the same day as a blue one - they are both 83152** - was that your blue one Uwe?

[Denis]

My only guitar is CAR. In a couple of places where it's chipped the gold undercoat is clearly visible.

[Highlander]

Ich sammle nicht wegen Lackierungen.

Dank...

[uwe]

IIRC that red one was made the same day as a blue one - they are both 83152** - was that your blue one Uwe?

Naw, my Grabber Blue - still a skunk stripe with non-grafted straight headstock - was most likely a NAMM prop in 1974 alluding to the then popular Ford Mustangs of the same name/color.

[dadagoboi]

Actual 1974 Mustang
"... Many collectors consider the Mustang II the worst Mustang ever made."


IIRC Ford called that color 'Candy Apple Red', it probably started the whole mess.  Definitely pissed off a lot of hotrodders.

[gearHed289]

Actual 1974 Mustang
"... Many collectors consider the Mustang II the worst Mustang ever made."


IIRC Ford called that color 'Candy Apple Red', it probably started the whole mess.  Definitely pissed off a lot of hotrodders.

But it was the right car for the times. A miniature Torino on a Pinto platform. LOL! It got the Mustang back to its humble beginnings as a "secretary's car" as Mr. Iaccoca put it. I was in 4th grade at the time, already a Mustang fan, and I didn't mind it at all.