I've been looking at Z's quite awhile now and I can't figure something out. Is the G Nose and overfenders on 240ZG dark grey or black?

Dark grey, I'm pretty sure.

Yeah, I'm thinking that too and I've never seen it in real life to know. Some pictures they look black but compared to the tires they look grey and then in some pictures they just already look grey so this is confusing.

The original Factory colour was a metallic Gunmetal Grey.

BMW used to have a stock colour called 'Anthracite' which is just about perfect.

I got a small bottle of touch-up paint from a fellow ZG owner in Japan, and he had it mixed to match his Factory paint on the lower panel. Its an almost perfect match to the BMW Anthracite.

Almost any dark metallic grey colour is going to look OK. They were never black from the Factory.

Alan T.

Alright, thanks alot, good to know. I've been dying to know this for awhile now and now I finally do. :classic:

Actually, do you think the grey on the Nissan Xterra bumpers would look right? It's pretty dark too....

View the pic here.

That looks much too dark to me.

You need to be aiming for a mid to dark gunmetal grey metallic. I don't know what cars you would have locally that I could point the colour out from ( I live in London, England ), so its a bit difficult!

Its definitely better to err on the grey side rather than have it too dark, in my opinion. However, some Japanese replica ZG's can be seen with darker shades of metallic grey. I notice that the owners of white ZG replicas in particular sometimes seem to go for either a darker or lighter shade than the original Factory colour.

Have a look at the pictures of my Factory ZG in my Gallery. I think there are some pics in there that will give you a good clue to the correct shade if you blow them up a bit.

Good luck,

Alan T.

Yeah, your right. I've been looking closely to some pictures and it does look a lot lighter than that pic I put up of the Xterra, now that I know it's dark grey though I'll look into it more, and thanks alot.