Time for a colour change.

[Major Fallout]

Im thinking about a colour change for my old speedster, I wanted to move away from black.

Everyone says model T fords were only sold in black, but thats not true, in the early brass years you could have it in any colour you wanted. and in the black radiator days it was big business painting Ts.

So, what do you guys think? I have had a play with photoshop and I think I know what I want, I just want everyone else to pick the same.

This is it now

[Johnspex]

In order of preference-
White, black, grey.

Not that hideous purple!

[Mark A S]

White

[Dave Hedgehog]

purple

[vixen1700]

Kinda like the red.

[spitfire-ian]

White

[TooMany2cvs]

Don't paint it. It's GORGEOUS. If you don't like it any more, give it to me, and I promise to love it exactly as is.

[benjj]

Great car.

If it was mine I would probably go for bare metal if it's tidy enough under the paint. If not an off white or a flat battleship grey.

[Riley Blue]

Shame to paint it, it'll lose a hundred years of patina and lots of character.

[dbdb]

Is the paint original or very old and patinated? Is so, then don't paint it!

if the current paint is modern, then though I like the black it currently wears, I also like it in red, blue and yellow. But PLEASE don't paint it if the paint is decades old.

[BoRED S2upid]

White or the silver / grey for me.

Lovely car btw any colour would look great.

[CAPP0]

Grey. Anything too bright/modern just wouldn't look right IMO.

[Major Fallout]

The paint is mostly not original, there are a few bits with the original paint the bonnet being one.

The problem was I was next to a friends car at a hill climb event (tarmac not mud type) and his car was immaculate it just been restored, and I was quite apologetic about the state of mine it really did look like a shed.

I was leaning to the navy blue, maybe a little more subtle than my photoshop.

[Major Fallout]

Thank you for the kind words about it, it's my pride and joy.

[TooMany2cvs]

Major Fallout said:

The problem was I was next to a friends car at a hill climb event (tarmac not mud type) and his car was immaculate it just been restored, and I was quite apologetic about the state of mine it really did look like a shed.

Is that a bad thing?

A couple of times lately, there's been a 3-litre Bentley burble down our lane. The patina on it is totally unfakeable - the paint on the bonnet has bloody great big cracks in it. It is _GORGEOUS_.

[occrj]

Hmmm I'd leave well alone if it was mine, but white is ok (although it might look a little Germanic in that colour), I think grey would be my choice, nothing too flashy

RJ

[AC43]

Lovely car.

Personally I'd leave it black or repaint in black.

Failing that, grey.

Or maybe white.

[dbdb]

Personally, whilst I believe more modern cars generally look better with shiny new paint, anything genuinely old looks better with its old paint, whether it is a bit scruffy or not. Yours looks truly marvellous.

Although I would enjoy looking at your friend's car with its new paint job, the pleasure yours would bring me with its original paint couldn't be repeated by any sprayer, no matter how talented. Your car looks utterly wonderful to my eyes - leave it as it is!!

[cahami]

Have you got a picture of your friends car so we can get an idea of what a brand new 100 year old car looks like? For me it would be leave it as is and wipe over with oily rag but if you have to paint it and after all its your car your choice, the grey looks good.
Cracking car by the way.

[jamieandthemagic]

Grey