Odyssey Blue- the best colour!

[Roman Knows]

Here's 2 for the price of one, mine is in front and the one nearest the camara belongs to a friend who lives oly 2 miles away.

[richie slow]

Roman Knows said:

Here's 2 for the price of one, mine is in front and the one nearest the camara belongs to a friend who lives oly 2 miles away.

Nice

[Hex]

richie slow said:

Sparky's is red, I seem to remember. And very nice condition too!

Ahh sorry my bad.

[davegreg]

If this has worked there should be a lovely pic of my Odyssey Blue Ro! It is currently in storage, but i did take it out for a blast a few days ago whilst there is still no snow on the ground.

[578HSV]

Mine is also the glorious colour in question

[bigwheel]

paul450 said:

bigwheel has one that colour

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/profile.asp?mem...

Thanks Paul.. the pic is of me at Greens showroom.

The day I collected mine brand new June '06 from Greens, the Vauxhall dealer in Kent (how many guys remember their significant contribution as a Wortec agent) there was an Odyssey CV8 on the back of a recovery truck with a very bent near-side. I asked on it's likely future and write-off was the assumption. I believe another met the same fate.
The salesman told me that I had got the last Odyssey.
I bought it over the phone without seeing it in the raw and thought I was getting a "Gunmetal" colour from the i-net photos! I was well chuffed when I saw it for real.

Edited by bigwheel on Monday 5th December 18:46

[bigwheel]

richie slow said:

I know this makes me sound a bit of an anorak, but there were 29 Odyssey Blue CV8s originally (the same number as yellow) and in the 2 1/2 years I've had mine and all the meets I've been to, I've only ever seen one other.( Owned by a Scottish guy called George, who is a lurker!)

It would be interesting to know how many of this rare colour are still at large. I know some of you are lurkers, so it would be nice if I could tempt you into posting.

I'll start the ball rolling with mine.

It is such an unusual colour and always gets positive comments.

Hey, Richard. Your front number plate is too big! With your characters, you're a cinch for having a legal plate. Check Gav's photo. Greens told me they were obliged to fit a full-size plate to mine but recommended me to shorten mine

[anonymous-user]

Here's mine.

[bigwheel]

Do the USA GTO's have the same Odyssey colour but with a different name?

[richie slow]

Thank you everybody for the pics

I'll put the list together tomorrow. It will be interesting to see how many of the 29 we can account for.

[Sparky1983]

richie slow said:

Hex said:

I believe sparky1983 has one in the best colour too.

Sparky's is red, I seem to remember. And very nice condition too!

As Hex said the best colour...... Red

But on a more serious note, I've seen quite a few of the older shaped monaros and VXR versions on the road but still have need seen another 05 cv8 on the road apart from meets and at the fish. Maybe I should do one for the reds.

[richie slow]

richie slow said:

Thank you everybody for the pics

I'll put the list together tomorrow. It will be interesting to see how many of the 29 we can account for.

The list so far......

Richie Slow
bigwheel
Hex
Wormus
Roman Knows
Roman Know's mate who lives 2 miles away
davegreg
578HSV

Also, known to be at large:

ex Wolfracer/ Johnny English car
ex Swordfishcoupe car.
Scottish George who lives in Norfolk, (Wisbech I think).

2 cars written off,

That's 13 of the 29 so far, not bad for one days digging.

[Hex]

Paint details



Taken from the faded label:

Colour Name..........Granite Grey
Car manufacturer.....GM (Holden)
Manufacturers Code...276M
Variant Code.........Original Shade
Pro-Spray Number.....GR64209BC
Construction Year....04
Without Lead Medium..Solids (MS)

It is an exact match, and wasnt mixed specially as I had my car 200 miles away - one repainted door handle using the paint.



Hopefully some use to you guys.

[richie slow]

Thanks Hex, very interesting. 276M is the correct code, but there does seem to be a problem where paint shops use machines to mix it themselves. I'd love to re-spray the front bumper and get rid of the stone chips, it's the only part of the car that isn't perfect.

Maybe the answer is to buy the paint and give it to the shop to use.

[007 VXR]

richie slow said:

I'd love to re-spray the front bumper and get rid of the stone chips, it's the only part of the car that isn't perfect.

(Other the the driver)

[richie slow]

007 VXR said:

richie slow said:

I'd love to re-spray the front bumper and get rid of the stone chips, it's the only part of the car that isn't perfect.

(Other the the driver)

What are the chances of having a serious thread, just for once. Please.

Edited by richie slow on Tuesday 6th December 12:44

[007 VXR]

richie slow said:

[well_fans]

Thats swordfishcoupe's old car as I say now owned by Paulo but up for sale....

and this is one I had forgotten about in my local scrapyard a good few years ago, was meant to re-appear as a track car but no idea what happened in the long term

Edited by well_fans on Tuesday 6th December 16:20

[M11 MFP]

'nuther survivor.

Still only 22k.

[anonymous-user]

Forgot to mention, my Dad also has an Odyssey CV8 locked in his garage. Completely original with < 1000 miles!