red/white DTM cars

[helvetica]

while looking at Jake's DTM tour, it cross my mind to wonder if these cars were originally red cars, painted white or they just painted the inside of the car red on what already a white car. The reason for asking this, is because im thinking about painting my engine bay, trunk, and where-ever else red on the inside of the car. Would this look strange?

something like this maybe?

[vlad]

unless you are building a full blown DTM replica, what's the point?

[paintpro21]

1. its the biggest pain to paint the inside parts of a car because everything has to be removed.

2. it makes it look like your car has been repainted externally and you went with a different exterior color

don't bother unless you have the whole car stripped and match the color inside and out.

[helvetica]

i see what you guys are saying. i was just thinking about it, since the car is getting repainted.

[BMWM3DTM]

The BMW Works Teams have had different colours for the inside of there cars. Schnitzer painted the inside red, Bigazzi was white and the Linder Team painted the inside blue like this.


http://www.muzzimotorsport.com/index...id=10&PageNo=3

[travis816]

I am actually interested in this aswell, because im highly thinking about doing a replica one of these cars, as its already completely stripped. not that i think its totally nescecarry to go red but i am also just courius.

[travis816]

i just found a link that shows that they were red cars. http://www.s14.net/forums/showthread.php?t=10958 go to like the last pic and you can see the undercaraige is red, i dont thinkg they would go through the effort to paint it red. here is a pic
http://www.geocities.jp/m_saburo_ys_...mgsrc_r-35.jpg

[dtmman]

Hi guys,

like M3DTM sayed, the teams had different colours for the body shells inside, engine and trunk bay and floor underneath. And don´t forget the famous, inside white painted BMW M Team Zakspeed cars, where I worked on. To me all painted in alpine white is the best choice...the brighter a race car inside and underneath, the better to work on and to find leaks and other problems.

Regards
Guido