All great ideas. I think there’s strong support (at least in our householdChris and I will be pushing hard for great historic colors in modern flavors in addition to a few standard "suit" colors.
Here are some historic Scout colors as an idea. The last 20 years of resto-mod action has seen a plethora of great modern interpretations of these types of colors:
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) for bringing back any of the strong “retro” colours in metallic and/or pearlescent. We loved the colour of the reveal Traveller.My big concern is paint quality AND durability… I’m looking for Audi/Toyota level finish… it should be a target for production, especially with the awesome colour suggestions from the Scout team.
I once saw a new delivery Tesla Model S (supposedly in a premium trim) with horrendous rear quarter panel orange peel and I’ve heard a Ram truck owner describe how the door paint started flaking on their brand new vehicle months after delivery. Granted both examples were a few years ago now, but aside from clearcoat flaking at 200k (!!!) on my parked outside 4Runner I have not experienced paint problems with any of my Toyota and Audi vehicles.
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