Whats the best colour for a Griff ?

[keith mac]

I vote for Orange, because its different. Too many greens and blues, too many wood dashes.

[wargriff]

Lotus Imperial Green.

[Bluebottle]

Ocean Haze, my first love

[tbdgriff500]

Bluebottle said:

Ocean Haze, my first love

+1

[wycoller]

Monza Red, weish colour, devillish in ya face loud really quite unsuitable for a Griff, better with the more feminite blues and greens what ya say girls!!!

[chris52]

Halcyon Atlantis

[davegriff]

steve prevett's dark grey griff with anthracite spiders looks amazing....and sportmotive had (have?) a griff in viper blue that looked great as well.

[Del 203]

[ESDavey]

Black & cream top combo .... With silver wheels (not those black ones which look rubbish on any car)

[LordGrover]

I don't have an issue with green, a classic combination of shape and colour. But the I would say that wouldn't I?

Edited by LordGrover on Tuesday 30th March 07:48

[neutral 3]

All down to personal taste , but like an E-Type i think that Darker Colours show off the Lines of the Griff better than the lighter ones and a Darker Colour is also more discrete .
Am i correct in saying that TVR used a lot of BMW Colours for them ?

[Corky]

Red, red and red!

[JKY]

BMW Avus blue :-)

[keith mac]

neutral 3 said:

All down to personal taste , but like an E-Type i think that Darker Colours show off the Lines of the Griff better than the lighter ones and a Darker Colour is also more discrete .
Am i correct in saying that TVR used a lot of BMW Colours for them ?

Dont see a Griff as being discrete. I think the early E Types suit darker colours later ones I prefer white/pastels.

[mrmaggit]

neutral 3 said:

All down to personal taste , but like an E-Type i think that Darker Colours show off the Lines of the Griff better than the lighter ones and a Darker Colour is also more discrete .
Am i correct in saying that TVR used a lot of BMW Colours for them ?

Wol is in Montreal Blue, which is a BMW colour, apparently.

[neutral 3]

Re Colours and being discrete , the "Late Great" Motoring Writer and Author ( Motor Sport magazine , Mila-Milia Winner with Moss ) Dennis Jenkinson Ordered Jaguar Carmen Red for his first E-Type Coupe when he took delivery of it from the Factory in 1965 . He chose Red as it stood out against ANY background , which was Vital as he crossed Europe at very high speeds in his E on his way to report from Race meetings . H would often encoounter elderly Renaults and Fiats travelling at a fraction of his speed and needed them to see his as aerly as possible.
In Later years he wrote that to drive fast discreteely nowadays ,it is vital that you attract as little attention as possible to yourself and that bright colours were a definate No for any performance car .
For me personally there is only one colour to have on a griff and that is one of the Dark Blues .

[RichB]

keith mac said:

... Too many greens and blues, too many wood dashes...

There are hardly 'too many' of any colour or style of dash. Indeed I can't remember the last time I passed a Griff on the road.

[Gnasher]

I must have looked at a dozen or more Griffs, in reds, blues, & greens, & then I saw a silver one.

Or should I say then I saw my silver one, 3 years on & I still think it looks great.

I'm surprised it wasn't more a more popular choice when they were new.

SteveD

[V8 GRF]

chris52 said:

Halcyon Atlantis

[BliarOut]

Aston California Sage Green, even though I do like my current Cureton Green.