Favourite colours for cars

[bobins]

Ah, But were you ever a boy racer back in the day, Gibbo ? I think we should be told

[mickthemaverick]

I can just see Gibbo burning up the roads of Birmingham in one of these:

BFTW

[Gibbo2286]

Series E Morris 8, worked on a lot of them but never owned one Mick, my first job in the garage when I left school was with a small business owned by an ex soldier, he said "So you want to be a mechanic, take the gearbox out of that." pointing to a pre war Morris 8 like this.
Never was a boy racer Bobins.

[Gibbo2286]

Just remembered my younger brother had the Wolseley version of that series E, he wasn't licensed or insured and he demolished a lot of newly erected brickwork on the Perry Bar underpass they were building in Brum at the time.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Snapdragon Yellow

Neil

[CitroJim]

They look good in yellow... As do most cars

[NewcastleFalcon]

Every colour on an E-type loads of pictures from XKE Data Catalogue with the colour gallery listed from A to Z
E-Type Colours Gallery
http://www.xkedata.com/catalog/colors/

Willow Green in the flesh

and one of the colours is indeed Heather 1973/1974 quite fitting for the period when things were a little less grey white and black in the world of car paint...but hasn't been deposited here maybe because I should have added rather than "favourite" , "interesting/awful" to the thread title.

In the flesh it may appear a little less pink...than this viewtopic.php?p=796504#p796504

Heather
http://www.xkedata.com/gallery/zoom/?id=119890

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

...from POTD re the Persuaders Bahama Yellow Aston Martin DBS

Maybe just my eyes, it seems to have hints of Jensen Interceptor about it...

Came across this Jensen Interceptor for sale at Barons Southampton this weekend. Nice location , and Reef Blue is a striking enough colour, but what caught my eye were the shadow stripes of a nearby fence making a quirky image.

Sale Particulars

https://www.barons-auctions.com/content ... 8&cid=5616

First the Fence and a Nice Louvred Bonnet
Then the Shadow Stripes on the Reef Blue Jensen

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

A lovely scheme methinks:

BFTW

Details here

[NewcastleFalcon]

Window shopping, choose your car choose your colour from this...the life blood of the thread...proper colour chart with actual pictures.

http://citroensmpassion.free.fr/ch6/couleurs.htm

AC319 Feuille Doree Metallise of course

This one posted by Steve Yesterday is AC 637 Bleu de Bregancon Metallise



Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Looks more "bronze-ey" in real life but if it is a new one then its probably what they call Runway Red...er duff name KIA!

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Colour in Spades

Neil

[CitroJim]

Gosh! That's a bit lively!

[NewcastleFalcon]

A convoluted way to get one of today's Falcon shutter clicks into a thread

Do like the C3 Picasso in Purple though, nicely stands out. Gibbo may know the garage where it is for sale its in Chepstow.

Spoiler: show

Neil

[CitroJim]

Yes, I think the Picasso looks awesome in purple. I recall seeing one at the Chevrons Rally last year...

Well loved by the looks of it and towing rather an interesting caravan

My photos...