Unusual Colour - Orange Chimaera

[v41ley]

I've never seeen one of these before.
Original colour or a respray ?

www.lotsofmotors.com/motorFrame.php?dealerID=42
(scroll down the stock list to see the car in question)

[burriana]

Well, by the look of the colour coded stitching on the seats, I'd say original.

[Hughesie II]

Theres a few dotted around, guy in Dorset had one as did Fourwheeldrift for a while...

[markh]

Great colour

[that daddy]

markh said:

Great colour

Yeh,i like that to unusual.

[madbadger]

That looks like Dom (Shorts!) old 5.0.

His was S reg and wuld have been sold on 50k+ miles a few years ago.

Was a cracking car.

[Nano2nd]

mines orange

[forthright MC]

i think that colour looks great on the Chim, certainly very different and unique! the shade itself looks a bit like Sanguine orange, theres a Tamora for sale in the classifieds which looks very similar.

[waynester]

I like that. Good value too.

[apache]

Nano2nd said:

mines orange

Did that used to be green?

[WazzaL]

I like that a lot.

Was originally looking for a yellow one, but told I wasn't allowed such a colour. Think I may have broken the 'rules' if this had come up for sale when I was looking.

[chim666]

Hughesie II said:

Theres a few dotted around, guy in Dorset had one as did Fourwheeldrift for a while...

Do you mean Dean by any chance?
www.tvrcc-wiltshire.co.uk/gallery.asp?offset=10

[Chimjunkie]

What would be gorgeous is Ford electric orange as used on the new Focus ST. Expensive paint though.

[Nano2nd]

apache said:

Nano2nd said:

mines orange

Did that used to be green?

yup was repainted at the factory due to a fault with the original paint mix

[shorts!]

Madbadger might be right again, that could well be my old car. Orange was hardly flavour of the month back in 1998 and Gerbil worked hard to find a colour we would both be happy with but as always he came up trumps.
If it is mine it has a navy interior (and roof/hood) with orange, but not too bright, stitching on the leather with almost white dials. Just as important to some is what it doesn't have. No aircon and no POWER STEERING. I think that's probably as rare as the orange paint.
I though it was brilliant. We did about 50k miles in two and a half years. Motorways, A roads, country lanes, race tracks. . . We got through a few tyres and tank(er)s of petrol but all those miles were on one engine and one clutch. Oh, we got a few speeding points too.
I traded it in at Barnet in spring or summer of 2001 and it was sold later by the guys at Castle.
I had lots of fun with this car and I hope whoever had it after me did too. I really hope this is my old car, it's always good to know your old car is still going strong.

Edited by shorts! on Saturday 24th February 00:26

[GTvr]

did you change your number plates as registration is different?

[apache]

Nano2nd said:

apache said:

Nano2nd said:

mines orange

Did that used to be green?

yup was repainted at the factory due to a fault with the original paint mix

We met at Cambridge, did you get the same colour as the Griff?

[Nano2nd]

apache said:

Nano2nd said:

apache said:

Nano2nd said:

mines orange

Did that used to be green?

yup was repainted at the factory due to a fault with the original paint mix

We met at Cambridge, did you get the same colour as the Griff?

I think that was the previous owner, he lived near cambridge i bought it almost 3 years ago

yeah it is the same colour as yours, i believe theres one other chim and your griff, 3 Apache cars

[DC53]

Bloody gorgeous if you ask me, i would love to see it in some decent sun light!

[over_the_hill]

A well known car here in the W Mids

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/profile.asp?h=0&memberId=28484