I just bought a 94 civic EX coupe to work on and the original owner had it painted captiva blue. I don't know how I feel about that color on the coupe. It's kind of a toss up right now. Sometimes it looks good to me and sometimes it doesn't. Also, there are some spots that are already starting to fade like the rear panels under the tail lights.

I've recently started to tear it down and get it ready for a roll cage and clean off the nasty vomit stains left for me. Since, I've recently picked up some krylon semi-flat black paint to do the interior black and am going to be doing the engine bay as well (it's currently that stock plum color) I was really thinking of rattle canning the whole car semi flat black as my interior has turned out way better than I expected (maybe it's due to the German jumbo spray tips I used versus the stock cone tip on the can.)

I know you can't tell me or force me to paint it or leave it but I would like to hear your feed back.

here are some current pics of the tear down process and referencing of the captiva blue paint:

 

captiva blue

 

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Captive will win this poll

 

captiva blue

flat black ftl

 

tl:dr
story was too long, cliffs required.

hot paint over no shine?

 

CBP

 

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if the paints decent keep it

 

blue for sure

 

how bout that stock purple paint?

 

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flat black ftl</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

That blue looks sharp

 

keep it that way

 

dude i cant even belive you would post this....captiva is one of the nicest honda colors....

flat black cars make it look like your to poor to afford a real paint job. so you went to walmart and bought like 40$ worth of spray cans..

if you wanna paint anything black do the engine bay.

 

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keep rockin the blue

 

blue

 

serious??

I've never even seen a captiva blue coupe, **** is nice man!!

don't 'expletive it up, g/l on the build

 

flat black looks like *** in any case IMO keep the blue

 

If the paint still in good condition keep it blue....if not you know what to do.

 

flat black sucks!

 

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keep it blue.just paint match the bay and you will be good to go.

 

I personally think the captiva blue is only meant for the hatches. I choose the flat black if it's done right.