56 olds original color combo? see pic, is it rare?

[olds88]

Hi, Here is my 56 olds that I am about ready to send to the body and paint shop. Most of the ones I have seen have the color split more between the top and bottom of the car, I have yet to see another one like this with just the white top. Is this common for the plain 88's? The paint code is 70-60 whiich I believe means alcan white upper and turquoise lower but why is it that most of the ones you see have the paint like one color on the top and hood and top half of fender, and the second color on the lower half of body and trunk? I was planning on going with the original color, what do you think?

[Guest imported_pete324rock]

I'm not familiar with the post model but I wonder where you would split the paint to make it any other way considering the door frames-maybe I'm missing something.The holidays have no color issues with the door frames which makes the split easy... I would think. Nice looking car-mind if I ask what type of paint you plan to use? pete

[olds88]

Hey you are right, I guess there is no way to split it clean on two colors. I have seen one in a picture that was solid black color but have not seen too many lkie this. I am not sure what kind of paint to use, I was just going by what the body shop says on that, they did say something about number of coats and amount of shine desired and of course amount of cost, depending on how I wanted it to look. any suggestions out there on paint type?

[imported_Badger Guy]

Split it like this!

[olds88]

hard to tell, but is yours a 4 door post, because on mine I am not sure how the 88 4 dorr post could have been split because there is no clean line with the stainless trim. Not that I want to split the paint anyway because I wanted it like original.

[imported_Badger Guy]

The 56 in the pic is a 2dr post, but has the same trim as your 4dr. The holes for attaching the trim was used for the paint line. So the trim goes right down the middle of the paint line. The car is in the body shop of a friend of mine. He wasn't real fond of pink, but thats what the guy wanted. The paint is clear coat.