A couple years ago I had this cool idea for a show car....to have it painted with whatever those white road reflectors are made out of....I dunno if it comes in a paint form BUT...it would be awesome to see a whole car light up white when light its it

anyone else ever thought about this? I wish it could be done!

good idea for a show car - but not good idea for a daily driver as i think you would get in trouble with the law

never seen any form of paint available to the public like that though

This post has been edited by celicarus: Jan 12, 2006 - 8:19 PM

i know that reflector stuff is vinyal.
i use to make the road signs.

I think it would get real annoying real fast.

I was searching for something like this & so far i found these reflective beads but i dont think thats what you would want to use on a car lol...then again they are probably tiny...im sure they could be mixed into the paint before hand


but are they green? ehh i wanna see white!

Hmmm I wonder what this looks like when applied: REFLECT-A-LITE™ Clear Reflective Paint

you could just use the House of Kolor
glow in teh dark paint.....but that dies after about 2-6 months
but hey just watch out amy you might get

This post has been edited by playr158: Jan 13, 2006 - 8:08 AM

Just paint it chrome, like the E46 BMW M3 that was so popular last year. "Best of Show" guaranteed.

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oooh I would never do it I just wanna see it done lol...

I think it would be cooler to have light a white car, and then have like graphics or vinyls that dont show up unless you have special lighting (maybe black lights). I think that would look pretty cool.

Well there is a new style that some bodyshops do. Its more exspensive, but anyways its a vinyl they lay a vinyl over your whole car, So thats prob, how you could get your car to look like that. But ya if it was just a show car you would be fine but the law would be on you if it was a daily driver.

I used to have my car painted with the type of reflective material that you are looking for, house of Kolor made it, I did this about a year and a half ago .

My car was black with a design on the sides like the Veilside cars , and the design was in reflective gold.
Basically what it is is a reflective base(silver) that you do your design in and then you go over it with a candy(transparent) color of your choice.

I also tried vinyls although the didn't have anything i found that gave me the reflection I wanted. with the paint you get a reflation similar to that of the designs that are on cops' vehicles- the only difference was that when not under light the vinyl reflective material seemed dull and the paint held it's shine

I also tried the vinyl wraps that cover your whole car- mainly because it was cheaper than a full paint job.
it also was not as glossy as a real paint job, but it was like $800(everything on my car is molded so is was a little higher since it all had to be done in one peicesheet) and you can do any design/graphics you want plus if you ever get in a wreck they keep the design so that that way you can just redo a panel rather that the whole car to get a perfect color match

This post has been edited by dans_st: Jan 16, 2006 - 2:37 AM

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My dad had ghost flames on his 56 Ford pickup. It looked cool. You can only see them when the light hits it right. Very old trick.