Who makes the blackest of black paint

[ricka]

boy, i don't know. mercedes always looks the best in black to me. looks like an ink well.

[O.C.Detailing]

Make sure you use a Euro clearcoat over whichever black you choose...it has a blue tint to it where as most of the standard clears end up with some sort of brownish hue to them...like my BMW. I hate the way it looks. Thank GOODNESS it's chipping off of my car. I need to sell it and get a more utilitarian vehicle.

[David Fermani]

You could use the blackest bccc black and it still wouldn't be blacker that single stage. Clear will detract from the color and look. I love single stage black and it's a sinch to maintain.

[Mike Phillips]

Mike, post up that picture of the old Ford Pick Up done in single stage black... That picture is burnt into my collective memory as the deepest most intense black I have seen...


edit: went off searching for said picture...


edit 2: FOUND IT! Linked from other website - please advise if this is unacceptable and I will pull it down.

Those pictures are hosted on MOL and perfectly acceptable to post over here. I usually find them by typing in 1956 F150 to the search box.

This was a fun truck to buff out, it's a 1956 Ford F150 that won the award for America's Most Beautiful Ford F150, I don't remember the year. When I was buffing this out Chezoom was parked right next to it and the owners of the shop were going to have me buff-out Chezoom after they finished doing a ton of upgrades to it but alas, I never heard from them. The mistake I made was while I was buffing out the above 1956 Ford F150 I also took some time to show their in-house detailer how to detail cars using a rotary buffer and a DA Polisher, so that's probably where my job went. Oh well, everything works out for a reason...

The above pant job is actually a single stage urethane finish. The owner didn't want the plasticy look a clear coat imparts to black paint, or any color paint for that matter.

[sullysdetailing]

I would say go Single Stage black and base/clear for the white stripes. To me with single stage black you get the deepest and wettest look out of it. Plus it is easy to polish