Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
I was torn between going really wild on the paint scheme or doing it up more subtly. I had considered candy colors, metalflakes, and multi-color schemes. - Maybe using one of Chrysler's high optic colors. I played around with different striping ideas. I knew that if I played it too safe, the car would never have that eye-candy pop and appeal that I wanted. But at the same time I liked the idea of toning down the flash. No matter what - I wanted it to look like a muscle car.
I knew that the car had originally been blue. I knew that I sort of liked the gray that someone had chosen to re-paint it. I spent a lot of time online looking at as many pictures of early Barracudas as I could find in hopes that it would help me to decide what to pick.
One of my favorite things that I had seen Chrysler do was their use of tail stripes on the Dodges when they started the Dodge Scat Pack campaign. I realize that it was never a Plymouth thing, but after owning a '69 Superbee and a "68 Charger R/T, the look had really grown on me. I started toying around with tape across the rear of the car to see if I thought I could make it work. Dodge had made multiple versions of their stripes. Most of the time they incorporated an insignia with them. If I wanted to make it appear as if it was some form of factory stripe, I'd have to come up with the right combination of widths and a logo.
I went back online looking for any type of fish or barracuda cartoon image I could find that could be used. I liked the look of the Superbee and Rumblebee emblems and wanted something similar. The closest I could find was the design that Plymouth had used a one time in their advertizing. It was pretty good but I thought I'd like to make it a bit more subtle by doing a monotone version of it. A friend of mine had stopped by while I was working on the design and asked me what it was a picture of. I think the image was still a bit too complex. The wheels were distorted. The tail and fin were hard to identify. I decided I'd better modify it more to make it work.
I still wanted people to think of the image used in the old ads when they saw it so there'd be the impression that it was some form of factory stripe. This is what I came up with.
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I was torn between going really wild on the paint scheme or doing it up more subtly. I had considered candy colors, metalflakes, and multi-color schemes. - Maybe using one of Chrysler's high optic colors. I played around with different striping ideas. I knew that if I played it too safe, the car would never have that eye-candy pop and appeal that I wanted. But at the same time I liked the idea of toning down the flash. No matter what - I wanted it to look like a muscle car.
I knew that the car had originally been blue. I knew that I sort of liked the gray that someone had chosen to re-paint it. I spent a lot of time online looking at as many pictures of early Barracudas as I could find in hopes that it would help me to decide what to pick.
One of my favorite things that I had seen Chrysler do was their use of tail stripes on the Dodges when they started the Dodge Scat Pack campaign. I realize that it was never a Plymouth thing, but after owning a '69 Superbee and a "68 Charger R/T, the look had really grown on me. I started toying around with tape across the rear of the car to see if I thought I could make it work. Dodge had made multiple versions of their stripes. Most of the time they incorporated an insignia with them. If I wanted to make it appear as if it was some form of factory stripe, I'd have to come up with the right combination of widths and a logo.
I went back online looking for any type of fish or barracuda cartoon image I could find that could be used. I liked the look of the Superbee and Rumblebee emblems and wanted something similar. The closest I could find was the design that Plymouth had used a one time in their advertizing. It was pretty good but I thought I'd like to make it a bit more subtle by doing a monotone version of it. A friend of mine had stopped by while I was working on the design and asked me what it was a picture of. I think the image was still a bit too complex. The wheels were distorted. The tail and fin were hard to identify. I decided I'd better modify it more to make it work.
I still wanted people to think of the image used in the old ads when they saw it so there'd be the impression that it was some form of factory stripe. This is what I came up with.
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