Yesterday's colours: best colour on a car

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Our streets and roads show grey, black, white and sometimes dark blue cars. The occasional red Alfa or yellow Saab aside colour seems to be a forgotten design element. A shame really because there are so many gorgeous colours and each has a perfect fit for a particular car design. I understand folks hate to loose a pound or two when they sell their wheels... IMO sustainability is keeping your stuff until it breaks. Anyways, let's throw in cars dressed in 'forgotten colours'.

Let's kick of:

How achingly pretty does this blue make the boxy Beta?

And what about this one:

Apart from the hideous design elements this is a C you will never forget.

I often bump into a yellow S1 MX-5 for sale and I don't mind:


Over to you guys.

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I used to see quite a lot of red MR2s and I remember a period review where the Toyota got mistaken for a Ferrari!

I think this colour suits the later model very well:

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DavidY said:

Wow and wow. I snapped this one:

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Yellow Ghibli: Goodwood Brekkie a zillion years ago.

On the Alfa theme:

Love mustard on a 105 Coupe. #Ring


Yellow Spider no problemo.


Ouch, Montreal.


DP214 Aston in that particular green. Epic, just epic.

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I love this light blue on the Bizza.

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Purple looks good on Coke Bottle Muscle.

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Red looks great on Yank muscle:

Camaro SS


C1 Corvette


1958 Buick Skylark


C1 rumble in bronze - wow.

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Ouch how good does that green look on the Rover?!

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I love this typical French light blue on the Talbot Lago T26C:

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Deisel Weisel said:

Almera GTi in Tropical Green

Liking that.

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Imagine this colour on a modern car!