Brown Classic Cars

[Keep it stiff]

Brown must be the least common colour for a classic indeed it is rare to see brown modern cars.

My Dad was a Rover man, a couple of P5's followed by three P6's, the last of which was a V8, and later an SD1. One of his P6's was brown, same as this pic.

It got me thinking about what other cars were available in brown, I think BL had the option for the Mini and the Princess but I'm struggling to remember others. Brown classic car owners must be a pretty exclusive group.

[vixen1700]

Had a Russett Brown MGB GT with a 3.9 Rover V8 conversion back in the early '90s. Sounded nice, but not really a looker.

[Doofus]

[LuS1fer]

Loads. Brown was a popular colour, especially metallics. It was seen as a classy colour.

Cortina Mk III and the Mk IV was very popular with a light vinyl roof. Capris and Granada's too.
Renault 25 Monaco. I think all the top level Monacos were brown but Renault liked brown.
Lotus used to do some nice metallic browns in the Plus 2S/130 and wedge Elites.

Porsche 911s, Rollers, TR7, Dolly Sprint, Citroen SM, Toyotas.

There were lighter variations such as sable or mink.

This Cortina combination was immensely popular

Edited by LuS1fer on Thursday 18th December 15:10

[stuartmmcfc]

I had a russet brown Spitfire. The brown hid the rust quite well.

[rlw]

https://www.jamesedition.com/cars/ferrari/365/1970...

[Rob Dko]

Sienna brown

[mikeiow]

I had the option of brown on my 2014 XC60, back in the day.
Or “DS Brown”, as I called it - dog st brown!
I can see why it is not in favour these days, although some of those classics look okay.

[aeropilot]

Yep, various shades of brown was a very popular colour in the 70's, with pretty much most mass makers of the day offering a brown or multiple shades of brown in their colour palette's from Mini's to.....

[LotusOmega375D]

My dad had a brown TR7 coupe. My grandad had a brown Vauxhall Viva. To be fair I think everybody’s grandad had a brown Viva at that time.

[MDMA .]

This was at the local meet today.

[gt40steve]

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Roman Bronze metallic, so much nicer than most browns offered by the competition.

[aeropilot]

Popular choice on 911's back in the day as well

[vixen1700]

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1782504

I'd be quite happy with this.

[cliffords]

I find myself really liking some of those cars in Brown. Seems to suit some of them very much.

[Lotusgone]

I remember seeing this at the NEC Classic Car Show, on the Meguiars' stand, possibly.

Steve McQueen's car! A Ferrari! But it's brown...

[aeropilot]

Lotusgone said:

I remember seeing this at the NEC Classic Car Show, on the Meguiars' stand, possibly.

Steve McQueen's car! A Ferrari! But it's brown...

He liked brown.
His Mini Cooper S that he bought, he had painted a similar shade met brown as well.

[LuS1fer]

The launch Citroen SM was brown, IIRC and the "re-invention" sported the same hue.

[aeropilot]

Even the Miura could be had in brown

[MDMA .]

aeropilot said:

Even the Miura could be had in brown

Looks like you could have a few shades of brown as an option on that car