[Shotimes] opal frost

[Adam J. Green]

"Opal Frost is not a pretty color. They always look dirty, whether they are 
clean or not. Parked next to a silver frost, it's a very dull-looking 
paint."


Thats a bunch of bs. I have a hard time seeing the dirt on my Opal than the 
green one, and the opal frost isn't meant to be a silver color, it's meant 
to be Opal... I think it looks pearlish and very luminescent on a bright day 
and is an attractive car. I understand about the body panel thing, cause i'm 
sure I've had one repainted cause I can see a slight differentce in color 
like the sprayed it the wrong direction or something, but it is a minor 
detail and that's any multi layer paint that is on the brighter side.


           -Adam

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
To: "Jon Heese" <shotimes@jonheese.com>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 2:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] opal frost


> What I should have said is that I understand your logic, but it makes no 
> sense.
>
> If that makes sense!!
>
> Ron Porter
>
> Ron Porter <ronporter@prodigy.net> wrote:
> Uhhhh.....no
>
> Sorry, I have no clue what you are describing, not with a number of other 
> colors with far lower production numbers, in years with fewer SHOs built.
>
> FWIW, and I know this is a highly personal preference, so I don't want a 
> "discussion" on it, but I'm in the camp that feels the Opal Frost is not a 
> pretty color. They always look dirty, whether they are clean or not. 
> Parked next to a silver frost, it's a very dull-looking paint.
>
> OTOH, it's a great color for someone who nevers waxes their car!!!
>
> Also, you better not ever need a panel repainted, as it will never match.
>
> Ron Porter
>
> Jon Heese wrote:
> I meant that based on the number of Opal Frost SHO's made (according to
> the quoted website), if you had a big bag of all of the Gen1/2 SHO's of
> all colors and reached in and picked one at random, Opal Frost has the
> least probability of being selected.
>
> 1,302 Opal Frost SHO's were made in from 1989 to 1995, which is the
> smallest number for any single color on that time period.
>
> Make sense?
>
> Regards,
> Jon Heese
>
> Ron Porter wrote:
>> ??????
>>
>> I don't understand your comment about Opal Frost being the rarest color 
>> of SHO.
>>
>> Ron Porter
>>
>> Jon Heese wrote:
>> Woops. Skipped a few rare color/year combinations...
>>
>> Starting at the most rare:
>>
>> Oxford White 89's (325)
>> Royal Blue 92's (818)
>> Moonlight Blue 95's (861)
>> Emerald Green 91's (900)
>> Black 92's (921)
>> Silver Frost 95's (1,243)
>> Moonlight Blue 94's (1,275)
>> Opal Frost 94's (1,302)
>>
>> Of course, if you ignore the year, Opal Frost is the rarest color of
>> SHO, just barely ahead of Mocha Frost (with 1,346).
>>
>> All of this assumes that the numbers quoted on the webpage below are
>> accurate; an assumption whose veracity I have no way of testing.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jon Heese
>>
>> Jon Heese wrote:
>>
>>>According to this page:
>>>
>>>http://www.geocities.com/sho_off_1993/production.html
>>>
>>>there were only 1,302 Opal Frost SHOs ever built, and they were *all*
>>>built in 1994. So, except for the Black 92's and the Moonlight Blue
>>>95's, it's the rarest color/year combination.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Jon Heese
>>>
>>>Robert Bruce wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I once saw production numbers for various colors on a web site, but 
>>>>can't
>>>>seem to find that page again. Was the Opal Frost a rare color? This one
>>>>seems to be in exceptional shape.
>>>>
>>>>Robert Bruce
>>>>92 w/3.2
>>>>http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/810875
>>
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