Factory Five Paint Color Contest

[Mad Dog]

Help Name the All-New Factory Five Line of Sherwin Williams Paint Colors


The Summit Racing-Factory Five Mk4 project car used two of the new FFR-SW paints.

Factory Five has teamed up with Sherwin Williams to release an all-new line of custom Factory Five paint colors. Lots of folks have seen us at shows or come to our showroom and asked us, “What color did you paint that car?”

We have worked for years with Carl’s Collision here in Massachusetts, a high-end shop that not only does collision repair and paint, but also has an in-house facility where they host training sessions for auto-body technicians. Carl’s uses paint by Sherwin Williams, so our cars are all painted with Sherwin Williams paint as well.

Working directly with both of these companies, we created a line of paints to match the palette used for all of our favorite cars. We’re about ready to release them, but we need some help coming up with the names.

Have a look at photos below and share your name suggestions by filling out the form and hitting submit at the bottom of the page. The winner for each color will be awarded a $50 Factory Five gift certificate!

The contest ends on May 15, 2013. Factory Five Racing will announce the winners and award prizes at it's sole discretion. Void where prohibited.

Click here to submit your name suggestions.

[Mad Dog]

Color #1 - Solid Gloss Black. Current Name: Gloss Black



Color #2 - Bright crisp solid white commonly used for stripes on Roadsters and Coupes. Current Name: Modern Competition White



Color #3 - Solid off-white, similar to vintage Ford "Wimbledon" white. Current Name: Vintage White



Color #4 - Dark sapphire blue, near black indoors. Current Name: Phantom Blue-Black Metallic



Color #5 - Bright blue metallic, used on FFR 818R. Current Name: Modern Race Blue Metallic



Color #6 - One of the most common dark blue metallics used of Factory Fives. Used on FFR Type 65 Coupe demo car #5. Current Name: Classic Deep Blue Metallic



Color #7 - Light blue metallic color, seen on classic race cars, FIA Cobras, and 289 Daytona Coupes. Current Name: Vintage LeMans Blue Metallic

[Mad Dog]

Color #8 - Factory Five demo Mk4 Roadster color, solid red. Current Name: Classic 427 Red



Color #9 - Brilliant metallic tri-coat modern red. Used on FFR GTM. Current Name: Ultimate Red Metallic



Color #10 - Modern solid red, used on Summit Racing 427 stripes. Brighter than Classic 427 Red. Current Name: Hyper Red



Color #11 - High metallic silver used on Mk4 intro car. Current Name: Iridium Silver Metallic



Color #12 - Solid modern yellow, similar to Chevrolet Corvette race yellow. Current Name: Competition Yellow

[Mad Dog]

Color #13 - Charcoal metallic silver, used on Summint Racing Mk4 Roadster. Current Name: Gunmetal Gray Metallic



Color #14 - Brilliant modern yellow with bright pearl metallic mid-coat. Used on FFR Gen 2 GTM showcar. Current Name: Supercar Yellow Metallic



Color #15 - Base/clear bright orange metallic. Current Name: Sunburst Orange Metallic



Color #16 - Base/clear deep green metallic. Similar to Ford Bullitt Mustang Green. Current Name: Steve McGreen

[David Hodgkins]

EDIT: Didn't see the link!

Entering...

[68GT500MAN]

Entry submitted.
Doug

[bil1024]

Task Completed!

[myjones]

Color #10
Lambo chop red
Couldn't resist that one
DB

[conmech]

submitted

[conmech]

With the contest ending on May 15, results will be posted when?

[ursa5000]

One entry per person? I entered early and now I have a whole new batch of color names.

Da Bear

[2FAST4U]

Great idea. Now I know the color for my roadster

[Rich]

I submitted!

[MRSQSL]

One entry per person? I entered early and now I have a whole new batch of color names.

Da Bear

I didn't see any restrictions on the number of times you can enter. I had the same problem. I came up with a new idea after I had already entered, so I conned Alyssa into making a submission so I could incorporate my new idea. Of course, she's only 17 so I hope there's not an age problem.

[Mad Dog]

The Factory Five-Sherwin Williams Paint Line Naming Contest ends next week, so if you haven't submitted your ideas for the color names, you'd better hurry! We've had a bunch of great entries so far, and the decision making process will be tough. Here's the link with more details - http://bit.ly/Xkpxou.

[Mad Dog]

Wanted to remind everyone that today is the last day to submit your paint color names!

[Rich]

when/how/where will you announce the winners?

[Mad Dog]

We have a lot of submissions to go through and great names to select from so I'm not positive on when we'll be announcing the winners, but we will contact the winners directly - probably by e-mail - and post them on FFR's webiste, the forum, Facebook, etc.

[bil1024]

TTT! Any winners yet ?

[conmech]

+1


How many people entered?

[cobrajj]

Any results yet on the paint contest?

[tcarlson]

How about posting the color names people submitted and having a poll to see what folks like?

[longislandwrx]

Yeah I put a lot of thought into this and never got the results! what's the deal?

[conmech]

Lol, make us think REALLY HARD, submit our brain killing thoughts............................... and then forget us.

[bil1024]

I feel used

[Mad Dog]

The crew here has been working on picking the names over the past few weeks to narrow the choices down (there was a lot of great names to pick from). I think we are very close to being ready to announce the winners. Don't worry - we haven't forgotten.

[Rich]

Hurry.

[conmech]

I feel used

thank God, not abused....................

Don't worry - we haven't forgotten.

Ummm, what was this about?

[conmech]

41 days later.......... I feel like that joke... How do you keep an idiot in suspense? I'll tell ya later.

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[bil1024]

Ttt

[LuckyWinner]

so.......wanting to find out what i will call the color on my Roadster besides LeMans Blue

[Mad Dog]

Hi everyone,

We've picked the final colors (and names) and submitted them to Sherwin Williams. It's a big company and they don't move as quickly as we do, but I believe we'll have the final names and awards before SEMA.

[conmech]

Hi everyone,

We've picked the final colors (and names) and submitted them to Sherwin Williams. It's a big company and they don't move as quickly as we do, but I believe we'll have the final names and awards before SEMA.

SEMA............. Of 20__?

[tcarlson]

I'm looking forward to the seeing what names people came up with!

[conmech]

Hey Dave,. mind if we post up OUR lists that we submitted?

[Rich]

That was the big mistake of this contest....no social aspect. Could have been a social media blitz. Oh well.

[Mad Dog]

Hey Dave,. mind if we post up OUR lists that we submitted?

That sounds like a fun idea! If we don't hear back from Sherwin Williams soon, we'll post all of the submissions as there's some hilarious suggestions.

The trouble with the social media is that these names have to be vetted against trademarks and existing paint names and related names making general submissions and their publicity a real challenge to balance. Still, once the names are released, we're going to try to make a big deal out of it on the roll out and have some fun.

[ursa5000]

Paint names and color "trade dress" issues are a new arm of copyright law, and litigation over these issues is quite profitable- for the lawyers. For example, a few years ago Revlon and Clinique had the exact same name for a lipstick color. (They were different shades) The lawyers fees to solve this so-called problem were 50 times higher then all the lipstick sold with that particular name by both companies.

Da Bear

[Rich]

Any updates?

[ursa5000]

Just my "swag", i'll bet it will be 2014 before we hear anything definitive, based on the 818 rollout, then SEMA, followed by Thanksgiving and Chrismas, and the normal glacial pace that the lawyers for Sherwin -Williams and FFR move things along.

Da Bear