Brown interior poll on another forum!

[M'coli]

A forum that I frequent has this poll on the go currently:

Question: Are you bothered about a brown dash & interior ?Not bothered at all - 4 (100%)old mans car but i'll live with it - 0 (0%)would never been seen dead in one - 0 (0%) Total Voters: 4

Good stuff!

[mouseflakes]

A must-have feature in my book...

 

 

Ajopolies for the fuzzy pic

[Richard]

I don't particularly like brown but brown cars used to survive better than other colours, I think it was because the kind of people who would choose brown in a new car tended not to be hard on them.

[pogweasel]

Can't beat a bit of brown. Umm, er, I mean....A welcome break in these days of homogenised blandness when dashboards are available in only a tiny number of styles/finishes...i.e.(1) Elephant's arse effect grey (poverty spec)(2) As above with a liberal splattering of cheap faux-chrome (sporty/modern pretensions)(3) As per (1) with a liberal splattering of cheap, strangely shiny faux-wood (luxury pretenstions)And that's all the differentiation you get. Every vehicle will be quiet but unexceiting with disappointing performance, a bone-jarring ride due to over-large wheels and rock hard seats.

[j-j]

I love brown interiors on old French cars

 

This is the glory of my of GSA:

 

 

This car even had brown tinted glass!

[retrogeezer]

I'd love a retro car with a brown interior.....preferably brown or beige outside too!

[Spottedlaurel]

Lovely dark brown interior on the Bluebird (though, mysteriously, with one blue door handle).Had plenty of shades of brown/beige/caramel on my Japanese stuff over the years.Maroon as on the Laurel beats it though...

[Guest]

Here's some brown dashboard action for you, the OJC uploading thing is a bit knackered today so I've nabbed some pics off SL.

 

Charmant sports a nice light brown with woodgrain trim:

(nicked from SL)

 

Stanza has a similar arrangement, but a bit more plasticky:

 

Galant wins:

(nicked from SL)

[mk2_craig]

 

From my 1600-engined Fiesta Ghia a few years ago, this car is now in bits awaiting reassembly as an XR2 replica but its lovely velour beige and brown-ness is safely stored away in a dry Edinburgh loft.

[Pillock]

My lovely Scirocco Storm was finished in Havana Brown (aka Metallic Shit Poo), with tan leather and carpets and brown dash. Lovely!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hey its a full-on brownfest round your gaff Hirst.

[Guest]

The 323 Wagon has a brown interior too, but inexplicably I have no good pictures of it.

[Mash]

Got two brown interiors in current fleet and it doesn't really offend me. It's a definite talking point with new passengers!

 

My preference is for the other wildly colour coded interiors from the 80s like blues and burgundies. Vauxhall did some belting greens on early Novas, Mazda were good at completely blue interiors and this Accord has a lovely cabin where virtually nothing is left un-matched:

 

[Milford Cubicle]

My grandad had a navy blue Peugeot 309 with a matching interior, I remember it being quite sick-inducing.Someone I know has a brown 2001 Santa Fe with matching brown interior - it's amazing how slow it took Hyundai to acknowledge 'European' tastes (i.e. the blandness mentioned by pog).

[pogweasel]

 

From my 1600-engined Fiesta Ghia a few years ago, this car is now in bits awaiting reassembly as an XR2 replica but its lovely velour beige and brown-ness is safely stored away in a dry Edinburgh loft.

Hey that's supa kool.

 

Mrs Pog's first car had that interior too, though techically it was only a 1.3L Fezza.

It was also AWESOME in that it was hearing aid beige with a BROWN vinyl roof.

Bollocks to this "B289" stuff with VW's. "B2-95" is where it is at.

[VWPowered]

 

nothing wrong with a brown interior

[seth]

[M'coli]

Here's the Avenger:

The steering wheel glove came with the car!!!

 

MAsked it up for a bit of primer spraying today, which it took badly - sinkage of the paint where there's wag underneath. Bastard, that'll need wet-flatted during the week...

[Richard]

Is that a dummy gauge where you'd expect to find a rev counter?

[M'coli]

Is that a dummy gauge where you'd expect to find a rev counter?

Yes...

[r.welfare]

Awesome Avenger!I must find some pictures of my Belmont GLS in metallic brown with brown crushed velour interior. Mmm. And that craggy cliff-face of a Mk2 Astra dash does look best in brown...