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What do you guys think if Lincoln brought back the option of 2 tone paint schemes? No one outside of Rolls Royce or Bugatti offers them anymore. If done right it could be a way to really stand out from the crowd. I personally LOVED the Mark V with the nautical-inspired Bill Blass blue & white color scheme so I did a quick mock up of an MKZ BB edition for fun. What do you think?

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I would Like

-- "subtle" like the old LS400(#?) = good. As well as

-- "striking" like the Mark = Very good, tho too strong for many

but

--NOT the way most Panther 2tones ended up = why bother

&

frankly I don't trust FLincMoCo to

-- do it right, not just ANY styling works imho

-- KEEP doing it right

-- Keep it exclusive to Lincoln (if it has any success at all)

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Here's a couple more "classic" Lincoln designer series color schemes. I left off all the twin accent pinstriping, wire wheels, and carriage roofs.

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from a comment on TheMustangSource,

maybe for a sport-model

BlackChromePaint + BlackLustrePaint(not really 'matte')? (neither are truly 'black' either, just very dark & rich).

could easily be done with 'chrome'/silver too

& maybe a blue and a red.

 

^all more one-color-2-finishes = subtle-but-Not

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Anyone know why outside of possible changes in taste, why painted two tone paint jobs went away? Seems like most cars from the mid 1970s till the mid 1980s had a two tone option. I remember some of them looking pretty decent like the older square Thunderbirds in blue and beige.

 

The closest you come to a two tone car these days is all the plastic on the lower cladding area....the Escape has a TON of it. I put some Adam's VRT on my parents Escape this weekend and I was shocked at all the grey plastic in the lower areas...it had more then my SHO!

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