Yesterday's colours: best colour on a car
Discussion
Mr Snrub said:
P5BNij said:
Same one at the NEC in 2012, my mate and I couldn't take our eyes off it...
Your mate liked the colour scheme so much that he bought the shoes to matchDinkel - love the muscle car shot you posted earlier, brightened up my day no end, that
One of the lads at work has a custard yellow Camaro, I'll try and bag a photo sometime.
No, definitely crystal blue. I have owned the car from new, March 1989
Man of gas said:
eglf said:
Ford crystal blue (metallic). Although I may be a bit biased.
That looks like Paris blue to me. I loved that colour but it was discontinued in 1987 when I bought a new XR2 so had to settle for mercury grey!
Edited by Man of gas on Tuesday 17th January 10:15
Mr Tidy said:
And I love Valencia Orange - probably for the same reason!
I love Valencia - had a 1-series in it. Looked superb when it was clean and the sun was out.Really wanted a bright colour on my 5-series, but all the standard choices are very dull. Ended up with Mediterranean Blue. But I'd have loved Melbourne Red, Estoril Blue, even Valencia!
VW do a really nice brown on the CC - 'dark oak brown'. Best part is you can have it was a black / Caramac colour interior. Shame they're so dated (still look good, but the tech. is miles off the pace) these days,or I'd have been tempted.
P5BNij said:
My three current cars are metallic red, dark metallic purple and metallic British racing green.
Many thanks for those gems! Just reminds me what a terrible colour palette BL offered in the 70s! XJ6 in Lavender anyone?
The P6 Rovers caught my eye though - duck-poo green then Tobacco Leaf - mainly because I had a 3500S in Mexico Brown back in the day! I did look at a Monza Red one, but someone had fitted a small Motalita steering wheel and with a V8 up front and no PAS you could barely change direction at less than 20 mph!
My cousin had a P6 3500 in Cameroon Green at the time, which was one of the better options.
I still have nightmares about Teal Blue Marinas with green interiors and purple ones with red trim - what were they thinking?
Mr Tidy said:
P5BNij said:
My three current cars are metallic red, dark metallic purple and metallic British racing green.
Many thanks for those gems! Just reminds me what a terrible colour palette BL offered in the 70s! XJ6 in Lavender anyone?
The P6 Rovers caught my eye though - duck-poo green then Tobacco Leaf - mainly because I had a 3500S in Mexico Brown back in the day! I did look at a Monza Red one, but someone had fitted a small Motalita steering wheel and with a V8 up front and no PAS you could barely change direction at less than 20 mph!
My cousin had a P6 3500 in Cameroon Green at the time, which was one of the better options.
I still have nightmares about Teal Blue Marinas with green interiors and purple ones with red trim - what were they thinking?
The Teal Blue / green interior was also used on the Mk3 Cooper S, Mini 850 / 1000 and 1275GT, there aren't many around in that colour today. One of the old boys who worked in our local motor factor had a beautiful early 1275GT in purple with red side stripes and red interior, he'd swapped the standard Rostyles for a set of Wolfrace 5''x10''s and it looked a real gem.
The very last P6B to come off the line at Solihull was an Avocado 3500S, it was at Gaydon for many years but now belongs to a guy in the P6 Club...
Edited by P5BNij on Sunday 22 January 11:32
Edited by P5BNij on Sunday 22 January 11:33
P5BNij said:
My last P6B was Monza Red with a black leather interior, it looked the business with its 'Captain Scarlet' 3500S wheel trims, it had a 14" Mountney steering wheel and PAS which made it a great drive, even for an auto. The one before that was Cameron Green with buckskin leather interior and looked like an old man's car in comparison with the full boot mounted spare kit!
The Teal Blue / green interior was also used on the Mk3 Cooper S, Mini 850 / 1000 and 1275GT, there aren't many around in that colour today. One of the old boys who worked in our local motor factor had a beautiful early 1275GT in purple with red side stripes and red interior, he'd swapped the standard Rostyles for a set of Wolfrace 5''x10''s and it looked a real gem.
The very last P6B to come off the line at Solihull was an Avocado 3500S, it was at Gaydon for many years but now belongs to a guy in the P6 Club...
That sort of transcends awful to look rather good! The Teal Blue / green interior was also used on the Mk3 Cooper S, Mini 850 / 1000 and 1275GT, there aren't many around in that colour today. One of the old boys who worked in our local motor factor had a beautiful early 1275GT in purple with red side stripes and red interior, he'd swapped the standard Rostyles for a set of Wolfrace 5''x10''s and it looked a real gem.
The very last P6B to come off the line at Solihull was an Avocado 3500S, it was at Gaydon for many years but now belongs to a guy in the P6 Club...
Edited by P5BNij on Sunday 22 January 11:32
Edited by P5BNij on Sunday 22 January 11:33
Robert-nszl1 said:
Whilst we all decry the silver/ grey/ black brigade, especially I find with modern Porsches, even I would say that is a bold choice with depreciation/ eventual sale in mind!
I suspect I have little or no chance of recouping any of the ridiculous paint to sample price that Porsche charges !As for the rest of the car though residuals are rock solid and I don't see the colour dragging it down.
Either way though I intend to hold on to it for a good while yet as I find it a really good all rounder and the yellowness is an added bonus
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