Paint, What about a matte color? Options

[turnaround89]

I am getting really close to painting my car and have been having some thoughts about painting with a matte color, something different, yet can look really slick in my opinion. I was thinking of something like this, same color. what do you guys think?
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[charliew]

I built a 3/4 ton suburban for towing and bumming around like going back and forth to the deer lease and such. When I got some decent body panels on it I painted it with medium od green with a enamel that I got from a old military supply place in College Station, TX. Brent Mullins, check out his military collection- http://www.mullinsjeepparts.com/BMJP+Collection of course is flat and when I got through it would show some mars it got when it brushed into tree limbs on the ranch roads. To make it look ok I scotchbrited the sides and gave it a even texture and it looks ok again. The gallon of good enamel is 25.00 if you buy 4 gallons it's 20.00 so it is good for my purposes on hunting stuff. It seems to hold up very good as we go to a yearly old military weekend at the place and most everything there is painted with one of the three shades of the od. You should see them fire all the old military weapons. Blanks of course.

My first hot rod had a primered paint job. It got washed almost every day. I think semigloss paints are neat but everyones taste is different. One thing for sure is a duller gloss or a paint with more orangepeel will not show body imperfections nearly as well as a high gloss finish.