20 Paint Jobs On Sports Cars
The automobile is a surprisingly versatile way for people to express themselves, even with something as simple as which car you buy. They might paint them radically, and not everyone might understand it. But this is self expression, and that’s really cool at the end of the day. Let’s take a look at 20 sports car paint jobs that not everyone will understand.
20 METALLIC PAINT BUCKETS
This paint job looks like someone had buckets of liquid colored metal and splashed them over this Corvette. The end result is a pretty slick looking car, with an unexpected amount of flair and boldness.
It works pretty well with the black accents, making the car look more serious than the paint job would make it look alone. Talk about one of a kind self-expression. The best part about this Corvette is that it isn’t really compromised in a any way, it’ll still perform as exceptionally as a stock Corvette, while looking entirely different.
19 JANIS JOPLIN HAS ECLECTIC TASTE
This super retro Porsche outlandishly painted in psychedelic rainbows of art belongs to someone you may or may not have heard of, Janis Joplin.
This singer from the 60s was a true free spirit, and created some of the most incredible music the world has ever heard. She was a revolutionary, in a way, and this car really shows how eclectic and unique of a person she was.
The Porsche itself is mostly untouched, which means it’s still a pristine classic. It’s just got a psychedelic 60s suit on. I’d love to have a Porsche like this.
18 WUBBA LUBBA PAINT JOB, MORTY
The owner of this rather pitiful Chevy Cobalt has decided to spice it up a little bit by having a custom paint job done. Of all the patterns and designs they could’ve chosen to paint their car, they settled on Rick and Morty, an adult cartoon show that’s become extremely popular in recent years (with good reason, in my humble opinion.)
This person took their love of the show to new levels by covering their car in visual art reminiscent of the show. Good for them for having the passion to do it. Except for those wheels. Yikes.
17 COLOR WHEEL–SHATTERED
his Lamborghini Gallardo hasn’t seen colors like this ever before. It looks like there’s a slight hint of yellow on the back there, as if they just left the stock paint on and started adding layer after laying of airbrushed patterns and colors.
The end result is a chaotic explosion of color and design, with darker accents bringing it all back down, grounding it, keeping it from being too loud.
At least, relatively speaking, that is. To some this is much louder and brighter than any car they would ever dream of owning. Including myself, probably.
16 RETRO 70’S WALLPAPER ON A CAR
This paint job is a particularly outlandish one, relying on not only the most poignantly, and vividly, dated color scheme possible, but also employing the kind of pattern that you’d find on smoke-laden, moth-pocket drapes from the densest. The wallpaper, you’d find in your strange uncle’s kitchen.
All of those textures, embodied in the paint of one lone Camaro.
It borders on impressive really, in the most scary way possible. At least it was done by a professional, which means at least it looks finished and polished. Which helps things a lot, really.
15 GEOMETRICS AND FLAMES
This Camaro, not unlike our last one, finds a way to combine some pretty strange designs all together in the same paint job. They’ve managed to include a funky, neon, geometric airbrush pattern with primary blues and greens and purples, while also including a mean, fiery, badass flame airbrush pattern.
Let’s just say that it doesn’t work. No really at all. There’s no flow, there’s no matching, it’s just tacky. That’s not even saying anything about the bodykit, rims or the spoiler. Or the car. But now I’m just getting opinionated.
14 RACING INTO NEON HYPERSPACE
This wide body, racing tuned BMW looks like it came out of an Andy Warhol version of hyperspace from Star Wars. The fact that the ride is pitching into a turn helps that illusion immensely, too, and having the stripes all originate from the front end, gives the impression that this car is really fast – streaking by so quickly even the colors stretch and blend.
The paint job is pretty cool. To be honest, though, I’m not a huge fan of the absolutely bright colors they used. The advantage of this kind of pattern is your simultaneously a distraction to the other racers.
13 POP CULTURE AT ITS FINEST
This Porsche is pretty groovy, there’s no denying that fact. With the street art, spray paint-esque vibe it’s giving off, and the Japanese writing on the sides, this Porsche is about as pop culture as you can get. For some reason these older models of Porsche lend themselves incredibly well to this kind of paint job.
Janis Joplin’s Porsche we featured at number 19 is another great example of it. It’s like an entire mural across the body of it, but the design and styling for some reason just compliments any art painted on it.
12 NO IT’S NOT A REFLECTION
Having already looked at several different pictures of this exact Bugatti Veyron, I still find it hard to understand what exactly is going on with the paint job. It looks like a super shiny metallic chrome finish, with the white being the reflection from the lights above. But, that’s just not the case.
Those are painted white stripes on a blue car.
Which, at face value, doesn’t seem like it would bee much of an illusion. But the pattern of white is arrayed in just such a way that it fools your eye almost every time.
11 LIGHT AS A FEATHER
This old Volkswagen Beetle really is the definition of flower power, with floral designs and feathers in vibrant pastel array across every surface of the car. I’m trying to figure out what exactly is happening on the back end, it kind of looks like they’ve taken the entire back end off.
Which is where the engine is, so I am quite confused as to whether or not this Beetle can actually drive or not. I guess, either way, the paint job is still pretty rad. An art car at it’s most retro finest.
10 THAT’S ANOTHER PORSCHE, YES
This is yet another decked out funky and painted Porsche, this one the most modern of the ones we’ve featured so far. This is definitely also one of the more intricately painted cars on the list, too. It also happens to be painted by one of my all-time favorite artists, Zio Ziegler.
While he primarily does paintings, murals, and sculptures, often times he’ll do smaller commission works, like designing Vans, or a template for skateboard graphics. Or painting an entire Porsche.
The lush, geometric designs are amazing, and so detailed. You could look at his art for hours.
9 MURAL INCEPTION
This is probably one of the more original car paintings out there and one of the more unique, if that’s a nice way of putting it. I’m not sure what would compel someone to have this painted onto their car.
It’s really easy to see, though, and I’m sure it makes a lot of people smile, or even laugh. Just to sum up what this picture is, this is a painting on a car hood of Bob Ross painting onto a car hood not another Bob Ross painting but rather, a cat DJ-ing in space with a pizza. Welcome to the generation of the Millennials.
8 MINI CHECKERS AND STRIPES
This old-school Mini Cooper has never seen such colors before in its rather long and storied life. While still keeping the original checkered side view mirrors, this man, clearly proud of his work and his car, has made the entire car a menagerie of stripes and colors, with different colored fenders, a matching green front and back end, and every color you can imagine in between.
It looks pretty cool, actually, though I’d prefer a forest green one over anything any day. There’s just something about that classic, traditional British look that I can’t get enough.
7 MERCEDES-BENZ PRISM
This Mercedes-Benz has been painted, lengthwise, like a rainbow. Not just the cartoon idea of a rainbow, either, with solid lines between the colors. This is blended, a scale, just like a real rainbow is. It’s interesting to see an entire car entirely painted as a rainbow. You can’t see it, but I imagine that, just like the red is on the side of the car, that the missing color, purple, is just out of sight on the far side of the Merc. There’s something about these retro cars that just works for having the craziest paint jobs.
6 HIGH CONTRAST GRAPHICS
This Lamborghini is pretty luxuriously decorated, with neon, spindly designs contrasted against dark black under layers and some pitch black rims. The end result is a bold, bright, unique and eye catching Italian supercar that doesn’t look too over the top, or too bright and bubbly, but artsy, dramatic, and classy. Just like a Lamborghini should be.
It makes a pretty bold statement to drive around a custom painted Lamborghini, but if you’ve already got the supercar, why not make everything about it super? Including the radical paint job.
5 THAT’S A CHEETAH, NOT A JAGUAR
This is a bit of a rolling, driving contradiction, because this is an old Jaguar convertible that’s been painted (quite terribly, to be honest) to look like a cheetah, or a leopard maybe. But not a jaguar. So it doesn’t really make sense.
Though to be honest, it doesn’t really ever make sense to paint your entire car to look like an animal. Some people like animals enough to make their cars look like them, I guess. I just can’t get over how tiny those little arms are in comparison to the massive face. Kind of like a T-Rex.
4 HOT PINK FLAMES AND CHROME
This is without a doubt one of the worst offenders on this list. There’s really nothing about this paint job that’s expressive, unique, artsy, original, or anything besides ugly.
The SSR is one of the most universally hated cars ever made, and there’s good reason for it. Add to that a hot pink flame job, pink headlights, and appalling chrome aftermarket rims, and everything gets worse, much much worse.
If I was seen driving one of these, for any feasible reason, and I think I’d pass of shame. The embarrassment would be too much to deal with.
3 HOT ROD PAINTED WITH CRAYONS
The arrangement of stripes along this hot rod is just little too much. It looks like someone melted a box of crayons along it, with colors from every side of the color wheel. It’s kind of just ugly, especially on display with a bunch of other striped items and things.
It looks too busy and hard to look at. I’m not sure why the back fender looks like that, either, it doesn’t really blend or flow at all. But the job is done professionally, at least, which helps things a lot.
2 LEXUS GLOW-IN-THE-DARK
Talk about an eye-catching, show stopping kind of paint job, complete with not only a beautifully vibrant aquamarine glow in the dark sheen, but accents of white and contrasts of black.
It looks futuristic, modern, and somehow quite retro as well. I don’t know if I would appreciate owning it, as the hood would probably be quite distracting to drive with at night. But it’s a part piece of a paint job, for sure, and if it’s your taste then that’s awesome. I personally don’t think I’d like either the car or the paint job, but that’s just me.
1 COMIC BOOK-ESQUE
The graphics on this BMW are really interesting, almost as if they came straight from a comic book or a graphic novel. The gold lighting and black webbing creates a mini world on the side of the car, and the simple gold stripe and dark brown paint on the rest of the car balances things out pretty well.
The color scheme isn’t gaudy, so it doesn’t immediately stand out and the rims match surprisingly well.
Overall, this BMW is a fascinating example of a paint job on a sports car that has us scratching our heads.
Sources: consumerreports.org, motor1.com
