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Old 12-05-2000 | 06:17 PM
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pearl or artic white?

gettin my 89 rs painted and have narrowed it down to pearl [99 caddy pearl] or the old artic white. opinons anyone?
Old 12-05-2000 | 06:46 PM
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Pearl.
Old 12-05-2000 | 07:08 PM
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PEARL BUDDY PEARL!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going white with blue pearl
Old 12-05-2000 | 07:11 PM
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I just had my 89 Formula painted Arctic White and tossed around the idea of Pearl myself. Anyway go with Arctic White, youll be glad you did. I am.
Old 12-05-2000 | 07:16 PM
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I would choose Arctic White if it were my car. I have looked at a lot of Pearl White cars and they all have a funny cast to them in my opinion.

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Old 12-05-2000 | 07:42 PM
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I'm more partial to the Artic White. The pearl just looks like (especially on the caddys) like an old persons color,, and seems to always have a 'dirty' look to it. Kind of like black,, it's neat to look at but, not to own . Just my lowly opinion.

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Old 12-05-2000 | 09:00 PM
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I like the pearl personally.But the only problem with the pearl that I've heard,is that if you need to replace or re-paint an area,the paint won't exactly match.My body-man told me this and another guy from a different paint shop told me the same thing.
Old 12-06-2000 | 08:44 AM
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I like the pearl, depending on which one it is. A friend painted his mustang white pearl, and it looks great (especially with the ghost flames). His has a bit of a pink tint to it, which I don't care for, but the color itself looks good and white, not dirty like a lot of them look. I'm painting my GTA white pearl and I haven't picked out a color yet, but I'm going to look at the Lexus color and see how it looks. GM makes a good looking pearl, but I won't use it just because of the name. It's called something like "Fannie May Pink Pearl".

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Old 12-06-2000 | 12:41 PM
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i love the caddy pearl.
Old 12-07-2000 | 09:38 PM
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Arctic White all the way.

White is the only way to go, as said earlier, the pearl kinda looks dirty (in most cases) I also dont think that a thirdgen would look good in a pearl

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