Colour scheme - post up your favourites please!
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Just been with a mate to spec a new Caterham. Lots of choice, and he still has to decide which car. It will be a road car mainly, but the odd track day.
Presently he's veering toward a Supersport 140 standard body with wet gear and a few other bits.
Now the big question is colour.
At the moment, the winning scheme is the Caterham F1 finish, which they had in the showroom. Lovely metallic green with the yellow stripe.
Black is also being considered.
What say you?
Presently he's veering toward a Supersport 140 standard body with wet gear and a few other bits.
Now the big question is colour.
At the moment, the winning scheme is the Caterham F1 finish, which they had in the showroom. Lovely metallic green with the yellow stripe.
Black is also being considered.
What say you?
"Bright" rather than "dark".
I had 10 years with an Imola Blue 7 (dark blue) and had a number of close calls with people pulling out on me as they hadn't seen me coming (combination of visibility + low car).
My current preference is bright orange with black pack as that's what I have now.
You will get as many different opinions as there are colours :-)
I had 10 years with an Imola Blue 7 (dark blue) and had a number of close calls with people pulling out on me as they hadn't seen me coming (combination of visibility + low car).
My current preference is bright orange with black pack as that's what I have now.
You will get as many different opinions as there are colours :-)
edo said:
Just been with a mate to spec a new Caterham. Lots of choice, and he still has to decide which car. It will be a road car mainly, but the odd track day.
Presently he's veering toward a Supersport 140 standard body with wet gear and a few other bits.
Now the big question is colour.
At the moment, the winning scheme is the Caterham F1 finish, which they had in the showroom. Lovely metallic green with the yellow stripe.
Black is also being considered.
What say you?
Glad you like my cars colour scheme!Presently he's veering toward a Supersport 140 standard body with wet gear and a few other bits.
Now the big question is colour.
At the moment, the winning scheme is the Caterham F1 finish, which they had in the showroom. Lovely metallic green with the yellow stripe.
Black is also being considered.
What say you?
nigelpugh7 said:
edo said:
Just been with a mate to spec a new Caterham. Lots of choice, and he still has to decide which car. It will be a road car mainly, but the odd track day.
Presently he's veering toward a Supersport 140 standard body with wet gear and a few other bits.
Now the big question is colour.
At the moment, the winning scheme is the Caterham F1 finish, which they had in the showroom. Lovely metallic green with the yellow stripe.
Black is also being considered.
What say you?
Glad you like my cars colour scheme!Presently he's veering toward a Supersport 140 standard body with wet gear and a few other bits.
Now the big question is colour.
At the moment, the winning scheme is the Caterham F1 finish, which they had in the showroom. Lovely metallic green with the yellow stripe.
Black is also being considered.
What say you?
edo said:
nigelpugh7 said:
edo said:
Just been with a mate to spec a new Caterham. Lots of choice, and he still has to decide which car. It will be a road car mainly, but the odd track day.
Presently he's veering toward a Supersport 140 standard body with wet gear and a few other bits.
Now the big question is colour.
At the moment, the winning scheme is the Caterham F1 finish, which they had in the showroom. Lovely metallic green with the yellow stripe.
Black is also being considered.
What say you?
Glad you like my cars colour scheme!Presently he's veering toward a Supersport 140 standard body with wet gear and a few other bits.
Now the big question is colour.
At the moment, the winning scheme is the Caterham F1 finish, which they had in the showroom. Lovely metallic green with the yellow stripe.
Black is also being considered.
What say you?
I've done many a sticker up for Le Mans and often spend £100. So even at £200 on top of a respray, it's quite a bit cheaper.
Gingerbread Man said:
Paint one solid colour and then put some vinyl graphics on?
I've done many a sticker up for Le Mans and often spend £100. So even at £200 on top of a respray, it's quite a bit cheaper.
Er no, not exactly.I've done many a sticker up for Le Mans and often spend £100. So even at £200 on top of a respray, it's quite a bit cheaper.
My car is one of only 10 limited edition F1 colour Scheme painted cars.
There are no cheap vinyl stick on graphics on my car,or any of the ltd edition caterhams with the F1 colour scheme.
Each layer was hand painted and detailed, and the stripes on the bonnet, nose and Door panels are individual layers, applied separately and then lacquered for the final finish!
Lots of examples of cars on www.thecaterhamregister.net .... just choose a model and pick a colour!
nigelpugh7 said:
Gingerbread Man said:
Paint one solid colour and then put some vinyl graphics on?
I've done many a sticker up for Le Mans and often spend £100. So even at £200 on top of a respray, it's quite a bit cheaper.
Er no, not exactly.I've done many a sticker up for Le Mans and often spend £100. So even at £200 on top of a respray, it's quite a bit cheaper.
My car is one of only 10 limited edition F1 colour Scheme painted cars.
There are no cheap vinyl stick on graphics on my car,or any of the ltd edition caterhams with the F1 colour scheme.
Each layer was hand painted and detailed, and the stripes on the bonnet, nose and Door panels are individual layers, applied separately and then lacquered for the final finish!
I just mentioned a cheaper way of doing that paint job if he liked it which would be nearer the £1200 rather than the £3000.
Not sure how your bee got in your bonnet?
Gingerbread Man said:
That's all well and nice. But he liked the paint job. But not the £3K price hike over the £1200 quotes for other paint jobs. His is never going to be a limited edition run of 10 from the factory. It really doesn't come into it. I didn't say the original (yours) was done with vinyl.
I just mentioned a cheaper way of doing that paint job if he liked it which would be nearer the £1200 rather than the £3000.
Not sure how your bee got in your bonnet?
Mmm, lets see shall we? I just mentioned a cheaper way of doing that paint job if he liked it which would be nearer the £1200 rather than the £3000.
Not sure how your bee got in your bonnet?
Could it be where you compared a hand applied, limited edition,,specialist paint scheme to a £100 sticker that you applied yourself?
Go figure!
edo said:
Only issue is they want about £3k for it, compared with £1200 or so for a bogo colour...
hhhhmmmmm dunno where they get £3k to do the F1 colour scheme, its a standard metallic green with a couple of colours fine lined and masked up over the green base coat then laquered certainly nothing special or that would result in an £1800 increase, I"ve done loads of cars / motorbikes that way and on a Caterham its an extra 2 hours work max to do and no more than £50 in extra materials over doing it one colour. JeffC said:
hhhhmmmmm dunno where they get £3k to do the F1 colour scheme, its a standard metallic green with a couple of colours fine lined and masked up over the green base coat then laquered certainly nothing special or that would result in an £1800 increase, I"ve done loads of cars / motorbikes that way and on a Caterham its an extra 2 hours work max to do and no more than £50 in extra materials over doing it one colour.
Must.......... Resist.........an.........immediate......rebuttal!...............nigelpugh7 said:
Gingerbread Man said:
That's all well and nice. But he liked the paint job. But not the £3K price hike over the £1200 quotes for other paint jobs. His is never going to be a limited edition run of 10 from the factory. It really doesn't come into it. I didn't say the original (yours) was done with vinyl.
I just mentioned a cheaper way of doing that paint job if he liked it which would be nearer the £1200 rather than the £3000.
Not sure how your bee got in your bonnet?
Mmm, lets see shall we? I just mentioned a cheaper way of doing that paint job if he liked it which would be nearer the £1200 rather than the £3000.
Not sure how your bee got in your bonnet?
Could it be where you compared a hand applied, limited edition,,specialist paint scheme to a £100 sticker that you applied yourself?
Go figure!
Bloody hell. you seem to have made a simple comment into a problem for you. It really wasn't anything other than a simple comment. My god.
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