Is there any particular reason that Allison does not offer metal flake colors, fades, more eye appealiing color combinations and striping designs? I'm not hatin on Allisons, I still think they look pretty good. But they could look a lot better if they offered more color combiniations, especially metal flake colors.
I am shooting in the dark here because I know nothing about Allison colors but I bet you can get all the metal flake you want for a upcharge..
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Being a former owner of an Allison and living just afew miles from the factory . I asked the same question.
Darris asked me if i would buy a new truck with that big flake.
I got the impression he doesn't like it.
The main reasons are weight, durability & longevity. When metal flake is used there is a gelcoat base, flake & then clearcoat. This all adds weight & build up of gelcoat which induces gelcoat stress cracks since it has no structure. When the sun reflects off of the flake through the clear coat, it burns the clear coat off. Darris wants his boats to last a lifetime, unlike other manufacturers. Plain gelcoat can be buffed out several times to look near new by someone in the biusness, where as with clear coat next thing you know you're buffing the color off of the flake making them all silver. Not having 1/8" gelcoat is part of the reason you hardly ever see stress cracks in Allisons unless they're totally abused. The last reason is that when you have a sleek looking boat, you don't need all the glitter to get attention!
Gel all the way. My Allison was red and black gel and if you look real closely, my Champion is all gel.
Makes sense. Thanks for the input. I'm sure life without metalflake would not be so bad if I were doing 75-80+ with 200 hp or less getting 5+ mpg.
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