We had to make a mold first and custom lenses to fit. While Spoerndle liked the design of the original Mako Shark, she felt the paint job was too gray and not bright enough to suit her tastes. I'm not a gray person, so I wanted more blue, I wanted it to stand out more, plus I didn't want this car to be exactly the same color or a copy. Thus, the color of the finished car moves up from the white belly of the shark to light blues on the side and dark blues at the top. Also, whereas the original Mako Shark used solid colors, Secaur went with mica's and pearls.
Metallics reflect back little silver specks.
The micas are similar, but they have a reflective quality and they can reflect back different colors. And then these paints have pearls in them, actual pearl, and that also acts as a reflected media. Last March, cancer finally took Sandy Labaree's life after a 20-year struggle. But cancer never could take her fighting spirit, and this January, a cancer-fighting shark of the Corvette species joined the battle in her memory. Joan Spoerndle debuted the car at the NCRS Regionals in Orlando, Fla., on Jan 11.