Brown back in vogue???

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Fire99

9,844 posts

231 months

Saturday 10th May 2014
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aka_kerrly said:
These on the other hand are beautiful


yes

ajmulh

1 posts

121 months

Saturday 10th May 2014
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Brown cars super popular here in Amman, Jordan.

Here's mine:



Edited by ajmulh on Saturday 10th May 20:11

lord trumpton

7,492 posts

128 months

Saturday 10th May 2014
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I think brown cars are like dogs, great when they belong to someone else

Aeroresh

1,429 posts

234 months

Sunday 11th May 2014
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I love my brown range rover......its all personal taste of course!


s m

23,318 posts

205 months

Sunday 11th May 2014
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aka_kerrly said:
I do agree to an extent, this for example is hideous.
That was a pretty popular colour for those.

Don't recall seeing many black, silver or grey ones - a few white ones though driven by fashionista wink

northwest monkey

6,370 posts

191 months

Sunday 11th May 2014
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Aeroresh said:
I love my brown range rover......its all personal taste of course!

That's the colour I saw one in-it looked lovely.

aeropilot

35,007 posts

229 months

Sunday 11th May 2014
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s m said:
aka_kerrly said:
I do agree to an extent, this for example is hideous.
That was a pretty popular colour for those.
Russet Brown was a very popular choice on a lot of other BL stuff from the same era, Mini's, Stag's, 2000/2500's, TR7's, Range Rovers, SDI's, Spitfires, MGB's etc.

A friend of my Dad had a Russet Brown 2500S estate.

Earl of Petrol

512 posts

124 months

Friday 13th June 2014
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The 70's;
Russet (BL), Bark Metallic (Talbot/Chrysler), Roman Bronze (Ford), Milan Brown (shame on you M-B).
Often seen with a vinyl roof and contrasting velour.
If you're too young to remember that's your advantage.
Believe me, you don't want it back.
A car, is a sophisticated piece of engineering, would you want a brown iPod?
I rest my case.

gizlaroc

17,251 posts

226 months

Friday 13th June 2014
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Always loved this image when the M6 came out....




skyrover

12,682 posts

206 months

Friday 13th June 2014
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Always thought the early brown defenders looked classy.


ess

793 posts

180 months

Friday 13th June 2014
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Lorneg said:
No, not lovely! It looks a little......, brown.
911s should be 'sharp blue', like the one I had. This was my first car and the one I taught my wife to drive in 20 something years ago. She's doing a hand stand on the beach because she'd just learned how to control the nasty rear end tendency of 1980's 911s
What is it with girls and hand stands ?

Anyway, on topic -




ess

793 posts

180 months

Friday 13th June 2014
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aeropilot said:
Poo Brown was good enough for Bodie & Doyle and Regan & Carter back in the seventiessmile

I think that's 'Goose turd green'

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buzzer

3,544 posts

242 months

Friday 13th June 2014
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Around 1980 I painted a van for an Asian guy.... He wanted cheap... Very cheap. He moaned at the price of the paint and I said I could use some cock up colour that the paint supplier had mixed up slightly wrong.... But even that was too expensive.

In the end I used the slops from the bucket the paint company threw their discarded paint. It was brown.... Slops are always brown.... So I painted this van. In st brown... It really was like ... We'll st. Even the owner winced when he saw it.


Since then I just can't get my head around a brown car....

Leptons

5,150 posts

178 months

Saturday 14th June 2014
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buzzer said:
Around 1980 I painted a van for an Asian guy.... He wanted cheap... Very cheap. He moaned at the price of the paint and I said I could use some cock up colour that the paint supplier had mixed up slightly wrong.... But even that was too expensive.

In the end I used the slops from the bucket the paint company threw their discarded paint. It was brown.... Slops are always brown.... So I painted this van. In st brown... It really was like ... We'll st. Even the owner winced when he saw it.


Since then I just can't get my head around a brown car....
laugh

anonymous-user

56 months

Saturday 14th June 2014
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Can look great & allows contrasting brown leather interior etc which doesn't go with most other colours..

johnny fotze

394 posts

127 months

Saturday 14th June 2014
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As far as I recall I've only ever had one brown car; a BMW e21. This was the original 3 series, with the overbite/sharknose front. It's a magnificent looking car; in any colour except dysentry beige, which mine was. If it had been red it might still have been alive today.

lamboman100

1,445 posts

123 months

Saturday 14th June 2014
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Nobody should be driving a car the same colour as my loggers. It's not right.

g7jhp

6,974 posts

240 months

Saturday 14th June 2014
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Interesting Nougat Brown Metallic 3.2 Carrera just sold by JZ Machtech.


Randy Winkman

16,484 posts

191 months

Saturday 14th June 2014
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Here's a nice brown Urraco. When I was a kid, there was a lovely brown Berlinetta Boxer near where we lived in Petts Wood.

the-photographer

3,571 posts

178 months

Saturday 14th June 2014
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