Resale colours

[Pete Lewis]

we have a nice  local Stag in brown  for sale            its not sold yet  

says it all  

Pete

[dougbgt6]

Our beloved ex-AO Mark had a brown Spitfire which I thought suited it, see below, also who can forget Andy's flying log!

Doug

[dougbgt6]

14 hours ago, Sws999 said:

If anyone from this neck of the woods would like to contact me I would be more than pleased. 

Devon has two very active Local Areas I think the Southern one met in Newton Abbot and is nearest to Tavistock.

https://www.tssc.org.uk/tssc/areas_final.asp?area_ID=47&area=South West, Devon

Doug

 

[johny]

I know someone who has just bought a TR6 in that maroon colour and its not to everyones tastes but is so 70s I think its spot on👍

[PeteH]

I had a white Vitesse, which was resprayed Red. Most of my "other" cars have been Fords.

A Powder blue Escourt, and a Maroon one and a White, Green, Yellow, and multicoloured too, 5 or 6 in all. Most where "Rally" victim`s. The Spot welds where an issue, being thrashed around Forest Stages, and cuddling the ocasional tree. (Over-Enthusastic amatur!!. me back when.)

A Green Mini Van. hand painted blue. White Mini Estate. Two Red Mk111 Cortina`s. The List goes on and on. All different colours, my Current "modern wheels" is Black. SWMBO had a Bright Orange M2 2liter Capri, you needed sunglasses for that one!.

Not a real Fan of Brown. The Dolly, so coloured, was stolen and trashed on the Pirbright Ranges.

Life can be multicoloured.👍😁 and too short to worry what colour it is so long as it drives and gives "joy".

Pete

[johny]

I like green as theres so few cars around in that colour these days....

[PeteH]

9 minutes ago, johny said:

I like green as theres so few cars around in that colour these days....

Ahh! The Old BRG.? . Some think Unlucky? Mike Hawthorne was driving a BRG Mk 1 3.4 when he was killed. Superstition??.

Pete

[johny]

No not really BRG but 1970s lighter green like some Marinas had👍

[foshi]

personally going by my own experience , white or red sells i normally only keep my classics a year then move on to the next, have had trouble selling a green spitfire, mimosa yellow stag, and a maroon m g b . going to take a chance with my herald 12/50 coifer green only because it is so original just going to receive a white flash down the sides . usually would be out with the spray gun  red or white . paul

[Iain T]

For me the interior colour is very important. A nice tan or biscuit colour goes with most body colours and makes it much lighter inside. 

Iain 

[Adrian Cooper]

This morning I spotted an advert for an Aston Martin DB6 in a colour described as 'beautiful burnt almond'. In the picture you can see that it is a cunning renaming of a colour that is clearly poo brown.

This reminded me of a paint shop in Lewes that gives creative names to their custom colours; my favourite is a muddy pink colour called 'prosthetic limb'

Adrian 

 

[Colin Lindsay]

2 hours ago, Adrian Cooper said:

This morning I spotted an advert for an Aston Martin DB6 in a colour described as 'beautiful burnt almond'. In the picture you can see that it is a cunning renaming of a colour that is clearly poo brown.

This reminded me of a paint shop in Lewes that gives creative names to their custom colours; my favourite is a muddy pink colour called 'prosthetic limb'

Adrian 

 

Paint is like smelly candles, they have some weird ideas. I saw candles recently called 'Moonrise', 'Dawn' and 'Sadness'. What on earth does Moonrise smell like? Round here it depends on what they've sprayed on the fields. I know sadness is an empty box of Maltesers, but it may vary from person to person.

Emulsion Paint also comes in Dead Salmon, Cats Paw, Pigeon and Mouse's Back. Ford had car colours called Freudian Gilt and Anti-Establishment Mint, but Opel had one called A Star Is Brown and Rolls Royce called their brown New Sable.

[Pete Lewis]

i call mine all sorts of things it never answers  then its french   blue  

i may need to translate  for it 

Pete

[PeteH]

My Runabout is Black, That needs careful handling in to-days society. Noir?. Even more care in Spanish - Negro?.

Do I get it re-sprayed perhaps? would a Red one be more politically Correct? Would a pink one earn kudo`s with the alternative society?.

😁 Matron, Screens, he`s off again.

Pete

[daverclasper]

Life not always as black and white, maybe? 

[dougbgt6]

1 hour ago, PeteH said:

would a Red one be more politically Correct?

Oh no! An American sports team has been forced to change it's name from the Redskins VERY non PC. 

Mimosoa is nice.

Doug

[Chris A]

13 minutes ago, dougbgt6 said:

Oh no! An American sports team has been forced to change it's name from the Redskins VERY non PC. 

Mimosoa is nice.

Doug

Does this mean red skin onions are non pc? 

[Colin Lindsay]

9 minutes ago, Chris A said:

Does this mean red skin onions are non pc? 

Triumph is certainly supremacist and needs to go. The 'Subservient Herald' sounds much better.

[Unkel Kunkel]

19 hours ago, Colin Lindsay said:

Paint is like smelly candles, they have some weird ideas. I saw candles recently called 'Moonrise', 'Dawn' and 'Sadness'. What on earth does Moonrise smell like? Round here it depends on what they've sprayed on the fields. I know sadness is an empty box of Maltesers, but it may vary from person to person.

Emulsion Paint also comes in Dead Salmon, Cats Paw, Pigeon and Mouse's Back. Ford had car colours called Freudian Gilt and Anti-Establishment Mint, but Opel had one called A Star Is Brown and Rolls Royce called their brown New Sable.

For house interiors, grey in its  many shades,  still seems to be  “ In” (to use a very out- of- date expression)

One of the most popular is,  to my unsophisticated eye,  a sort of beige/ grey that goes by the name of  “Elephant’s breath”

That  doesn’t convey a colour  to me.

More an image of being engulfed in an enormous cloud of hot  splattery halitosis.

 

PS .. Returning to the topic ( and I must say a very reasonable question to ask in my opinion!)

Definitely.. Red.

taxis - black

Buses, post boxes, Royal mail vans ..red.

Sports cars .. Red

 

[Paul H]

Side stripe for my Vitesse 

Paul

[johny]

I think if I do the same I'll have a go with that plastic wrap....

[foshi]

found that a very good paint . in fact bulkhead area left as gun finish looks great nice shine paul

[68vitesse]

Bulkhead of my Vitesse red Hammerite smooth good match for colour 32 signal red with white 19 stripe.

Regards

Paul

 

[daverclasper]

Used some Hammerite on lower bulkhead a few years ago. Still holding up. It did get a bad rep, some time ago. Maybe improved now?.

That looks a very tidy car. Did you restore it?

[dougbgt6]

Yellow Hammerite is almost indistinguishable from Mimosa, I did my floor pans with it, under the carpets now, so I could'a used any colour really. Bulkhead I finished off with Club Shop mimosa rattle cans only needed two.

Doug