The paint you see mostly on VW bugs that looks purple at first glance,

[Mountain Girl]

then it changes...? It's irridescent, kind of resembles carnival glass; goes from purple to blue to orange to green, all mixed together. I've heard the paint is terribly expensive. How does it work?

 

[bassetfreak]

I wonder if it's like opal

it looks different depending on the way the light hits it

don't know for sure, but it sounds like my dream color !!

 

[mister ed]

are you sure you posted this in the right section you might want to try cars - transportation -- otherwise i would not be much stock in some of the answers -- give me another wine cooler and i will write a tomb on the subject!!!

 

[isotope2007]

My friend has his car painted like that, he owns a body shop and he told me its done by layers of paint on the car, some kind of special paint though. His had 8 layers - and it was like that - a different colour depending on whether you were looking at it from the front, the back or the sides - very very beautiful - and he said it WAS very expensive