Favourite colours for cars

[myglaren]

The only white car I have had was the GS.

[Gibbo2286]

I had a white Austin Westminster, kept getting stopped by the cops with "I like your car, was it one of ours?"

[mickthemaverick]

I thought I had had 3 white cars but when I looked in my library for pictures to post I realised I have had 6 including a C15 van!!

My first self employed van

My first real rally car!

Fast and comfortable but no good for kids!

Library picture I used mine for rallying and autotests

Loved it!

My favourite of all that I've owned

[CitroJim]

I do a bit of C3 Picasso spotting when out and about and see plenty now I'm looking for them

During my run this morning I spotted this one in what I think is the very best Picasso colour ever

This is a series 1 pre-facelift which I prefer the looks of...

[NewcastleFalcon]

During my run this morning I spotted this one in what I think is the very best Picasso colour ever

Like nail varnish, blue is never just blue....so has a chance to be

KGW Bleu Belle Ile Met (in French) my hamfisted translation would be Beautiful Island Blue Metallic!

Neil

[CitroJim]

KGW Bleu Belle Ile Met (in French) my hamfisted translation would be Beautiful Island Blue Metallic!

There a bit of a coincidence there Neil, dad's 1967 half-timbered Mini Traveller was in island Blue... That was a solid colour and not too different to Bluebell's Poseidon Blue...

Maybe that's why I like blue cars... I loved that Traveller and was inconsolable when he traded it in for a bloody awful Maria in Black Tulip...

[NewcastleFalcon]

KGW Bleu Belle Ile Met (in French) my hamfisted translation would be Beautiful Island Blue Metallic!

There a bit of a coincidence there Neil, dad's 1967 half-timbered Mini Traveller was in island Blue... That was a solid colour and not too different to Bluebell's Poseidon Blue...

Maybe that's why I like blue cars... I loved that Traveller and was inc onsolable when he traded it in for a bloody awful Maria in Black Tulip...

The only time I shed tears for a car, and plenty of them, was when we replaced our Ford Anglia, our first ever car with the monstrosity of a Morris Cowley in Black . It couldn’t have been more old fashioned and stodgy compared to the Anglia.

Neil

[Gibbo2286]

But it was a better car and much more comfortable Neil the garage man here in the village has one in his collection, It was the cheap version of the Oxford ( a bit like the Popular was to the Prefect) with a smaller engine.
Indian loved them as taxis, there are still quite a few on the streets over there together with the later Ambassadors, mostly upgrades with Japanese engines.

[mickthemaverick]

Do I assume that was a 100E Anglia rather than the 105E Neil?

[NewcastleFalcon]

Do I assume that was a 100E Anglia rather than the 105E Neil?

Yes I have a black and white pic of it somewhere 100E, it was a blue green colour.
Shoved it on this thread viewtopic.php?p=782121#p782121

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

My eye was caught by this light green metallic Astra and just for fun lobbed in the blue Corsa near to it. Light green metallic has featured recently with a Scimitar, and was a colour of Polo's and Ford Escorts of the early 80's.

I always classify a colour as "interesting" if it moves me to take a picture of it!

Neil

[CitroJim]

I actually quite like that green... Prefer the blue though, not necessarily on that car perhaps

[mickthemaverick]

I can't make my mind up whether this belongs here or not! Any ideas?

BFTW

Details here

[CitroJim]

It's a bit adventurous and I'm not sure if I like it or not yet...

[mickthemaverick]

This is more about the colour combination than the actual colour. I painted my Lambretta SX150 in exactly this combination, using metal flake cans, and I thought it looked great!

Bftw

Details here