Check the pic on the bottom of the site...

[url]http://www.mileageman.com[/url

http://www.mileageman.com/Logos.Pics/Shadow-Chrome-M3.jpg

Is or was that color ever offered as an option? or is it a custom paint job. Makes TiAg look like crap...

The color was never offered... It has only appeared on the M3 concept cars.... The Color is actually called Shadow Chrome...

Is there an official BMW Paint Code #? It wouls be cool to paint my inner headlight trim peices that color.

i think that for twenty thousand dollars you can get it...:eek2:

"chrome shadow" you'll never obtain it unless you know all the RIGHT people and have more $ than you know what to do with...

or call your favorite custom guy and offer him 15K..

I like it but Imagine it in the sunlight. youd blind millions of the roads

DuPont has a sweet chrome illusion color, sprayed it once when i painted for a while. Expensive as shit and hard as hell to get it to look right on the car. When I was painting it was about $500-$750 per gallon. But def. good looking if the right guy does the job.

Nate

They never offered this color for the reasons already expressed. Very expensive and extremely difficult to get it right. Imagine if you have to repair a body panel? You would have to paint the whole damn car to get it right. But man o man, what a beautiful color.:eek:

It's called Chrome Shadow. It was a $20k paint job for the BMW concept cars (both regular M3 and CSL for a while). It was not an offered color. Somebody managed to track the paint code down to one specific company. But like stated above... to paint the car was $20k and repairing a body panels would be a nightmare.

I can only imagine your local (or not-so-local) body shop attempting to match the color.

With the sunlight issues, it would seem that you could only drive it at night. Imagine the sunshine shining off of the hood onto your face.

I believe another issue with the paint was the lead content. Not sure if it was a rumor or not, but I've been told that it has such a high content that it will be very dangerous to work with at most paint shops. Also, this makes importing it to the US somewhat difficult.

Alright alright, i meant to say chrome shadow...my bad. lol yeah kevlar, i used to have a pearl white a4 and i shredded a fender, they had to repaint half the car to match it. I can't even imagine how on earth you could possibly match that color.

My helmet is a KBC Wolf and its painted that color. They call it Black Chrome though.

Where would one go about finding the DuPont paint in a similar color? I assume it would not be that difficult to paint some small plastic items, such as headlight surrounds, in that color.

I bought an HVLP spray gun the other day and am going to give it a shot.

my dad's bike is that color with blue flames.. ill get pictures

Covering the whole car with Reynold wrapping paper could be a quick solution :-)

I saw that Chrome Shadow M3 in person a few years back. It was absolutely beautiful!!!

Like others have said, that paint job costs a fortune relatively. Also, I heard that it is not very durable, and more susceptible to rock chips, etc.

I think that BMW is trying to come out with similar colors, because everyone loves that chrome shadow.

Steel Grey, Silver Grey, Sterling Grey

http://www.blaklite.com/NAIAS/pictures/BMW%20M3%201.jpg