Shite-est colours

[vulgalour]

Speaking of green...

 

 

 

 

[himoverthere]

Speaking of green...

 

 

 

 

Nothing wrong with Alfa Romeo 'Arctic Green'

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Ford made a couple of Autoshite coloured special editions in the late 70's early 80's

 

The Fiesta Sandpiper

 

 

 

The Granada Chausseur

I actually had a Chausseur and the much vaunted fitted leather luggage was pointless,took up boot space and in my car was smelly and mouldy.

[himoverthere]

 

The Granada Chausseur

I actually had a Chausseur and the much vaunted fitted leather luggage was pointless,took up boot space and in my car was smelly and mouldy.

 

The 'Chasseur' filtered in to my conscience about the same time as the even more exotic 'Chicken Chasseur' sauce in a jar that became a staple meal in our house as I grew up. I like that the car looks like it too has been simmered in a pan of ready-made brown sauce.

 

Fitted luggage though - didn't know that. Impressive.

[Tayne]

oh and that metallic Orange colour they put on Freelanders

 

 

This is a G4 challenge special edition

 

 

I'd say its destined to be as collectable as Mk1 Freelanders will get.

 

 

This is Tambora Flame

 

It was a mk2 launch colour (discontinued after the first year), but as they made quite a lot of them it'll likely end up as a historical footnote/

[Rusty_Rocket]

I've expressed my contempt for the colour of my LR on here before.. and I still think it's appalling!

 

Land Rover call it Aspen Silver, but it's not silver.  It's not gold really either, or beige.  It's just nothing.  I'd rather they'd left it unpainted aluminium - it could then be just like a Delorean, but even shiter.

 

[twosmoke300]

I meant the most common shite colours not which was best.

That purple colour is indeed on every corsa b round here.

[Split_Pin]

<Rowley Birkin QC> I remember the time..... I bought an orange Freelander....and regretted it. ......I'm afraid I was drunk.... </Rowley Birkin QC>

[Craig the Princess]

I thought every vauxhall looked like this, the shiteist of shite colours

[vulgalour]

I like that the garage door is also pogweaseling merrily in that picture.

[rml2345]

That really is pogtastic! Loads of cars round here are silver or other monochrome hues. Therefore I quite like anything that's an actual colour.

Apart from bright pink.

[Junkman]

What about this not green, not brown, not gold? I call it 'Undecided metallic'.

 

[Rusty_Rocket]

I think I quite like 'undecided metallic'   SWAPZ for Aspen Silver?!

[eddyramrod]

I hate brown and beige, including gold and any yellow that isn't practically acid.  Fortunately for me, as 70s cars age, the percentage of those shades around me decreases.  Unfortunately they are being replaced by my other pet hate, grey (to include any shade of silver and of course black).  These show no signs of dying out whatsoever, despite Sierras and mk2 Granadas (notoriously found in the abysmal Mercury Grey) constantly dying on the oval.  The Germans in particular seem to have embraced the grey spectrum like a long-lost daughter, to the point where I'm beginning to believe it's illegal to order your new car from any other page of the chart, if indeed there is another page.  It's so depressing.

 

I love colour.  Proper colour.  I've had one car resprayed in my lifetime.

Yes, Ford Peppermint, on a mk5 Cortina 2.0GL.  Peppermint wasn't offered on the mk5, only the mk4.  And I chose it deliberately.  Would I again?  You bet yer boots!

 

Take away the beige (sorry: if I ever have another Marina I'd want it in purple or red) and the grey, and bring me colours.  Colours that show off the chrome.  What, no chrome?  Take it away!

 

"Shite colours"?  70s: brown and beige.  80s and 90s: grey.  2000-on: grey and black.  Reds or greens if you're very lucky, in any of the above periods.

[charlie2555]

This is the shitest colour car I've ever seen.  Also, it's an atrocious conversion of a lovely little Hillman Imp...

 

 

 

 

 

[twosmoke300]

I worked at a honda dealer from 2000 to 2008 and nearly every bloody civic and jizz was satin silver metallic. Remember the paint code by heart nh623m. There was even a light blue met called blueish silver! I bloody hate silver cars

[JohnDeere]

I should know because it's the sort of useless thing I would know - my dad had an F plate mk3 Cavalier that colour. It was quite the thing at the time. They made a lot of them - the mk3 Cavalier had a waiting list when it was new - which in itself seems remarkable now - and my dad had a choice of 'ivejustvomittedglitterwine' or this sort of beige-gold-grey they did - it's almost not a colour at all.

 

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yugo_lada/8097381042/

 

That Cav goldysilverbeigey metallic looked great when it was new. Sonia and Gerry next door to my parents had a F-reg new after chopping in their E-reg white Astra GTE. They must have hoped that buying a sensible, grown-up car would save their marriage.  It didn't work as they got divorced and sold the house within the year.   The giffer that moved in has had an assortment of Nissan Primevals, which get polished to within an inch of their lives every weekend.

[ProgRocker]

How about an apricot Polo courtesy of GoldScotland71?

 

1994 Volkswagen Polo in peach! by GoldScotland71, on Flickr

[ayd]

 

This is Tambora Flame

 

It was a mk2 launch colour (discontinued after the first year), but as they made quite a lot of them it'll likely end up as a historical footnote/

 

 

This is the one...I'm really not a fan of it

[Shep Shepherd]

That Cav goldysilverbeigey metallic looked great when it was new. Sonia and Gerry next door to my parents had a F-reg new after chopping in their E-reg white Astra GTE. They must have hoped that buying a sensible, grown-up car would save their marriage.  It didn't work as they got divorced and sold the house within the year.   The giffer that moved in has had an assortment of Nissan Primevals, which get polished to within an inch of their lives every weekend.

 

Rembrandt Silver?

[Asimo]

This is the one...I'm really not a fan of it

A lovely colour, followed one today. In about 10 years I'll have one with the straight six petrol 3.2 please.

[inconsistant]

I have a faint feeling that the late 70s Ford bright colours were a special order and were called Signal... As in Signal Green, Signal Yellow etc.

Seem to remember an orange too? Or am I confusing that with something else?

 

Our neighbour was dead cool and had a 'Signal' green Cortina. My dads was Cordoba Beige.

[Asimo]

Since I first heard the Tom Waits song "Putnam County" I have wanted a "1958 Monkeyshit brown Buick Super"

 

Closest I got was a 1984 (chocolate?) brown Austin Ambassador. Auto so I could criuse around feeling chilled like mr Waits.

 

Anyone know what the Austin brown is called?

[londonm]

How about an apricot Polo courtesy of GoldScotland71? 1994 Volkswagen Polo in peach! by GoldScotland71, on Flickr

Fucking hell, teddy bear wheel trims. A new low.

[Craig the Princess]

Since I first heard the Tom Waits song "Putnam County" I have wanted a "1958 Monkeyshit brown Buick Super"

 

Closest I got was a 1984 (chocolate?) brown Austin Ambassador. Auto so I could criuse around feeling chilled like mr Waits.

 

Anyone know what the Austin brown is called?

 

1984 was Clove Brown

[HMC]

I hate brown and beige, including gold and any yellow that isn't practically acid.  Fortunately for me, as 70s cars age, the percentage of those shades around me decreases.  Unfortunately they are being replaced by my other pet hate, grey (to include any shade of silver and of course black).  These show no signs of dying out whatsoever, despite Sierras and mk2 Granadas (notoriously found in the abysmal Mercury Grey) constantly dying on the oval.  The Germans in particular seem to have embraced the grey spectrum like a long-lost daughter, to the point where I'm beginning to believe it's illegal to order your new car from any other page of the chart, if indeed there is another page.  It's so depressing.

 

I love colour.  Proper colour.  I've had one car resprayed in my lifetime.

Peppermint.jpg

Yes, Ford Peppermint, on a mk5 Cortina 2.0GL.  Peppermint wasn't offered on the mk5, only the mk4.  And I chose it deliberately.  Would I again?  You bet yer boots!

 

Take away the beige (sorry: if I ever have another Marina I'd want it in purple or red) and the grey, and bring me colours.  Colours that show off the chrome.  What, no chrome?  Take it away!

 

"Shite colours"?  70s: brown and beige.  80s and 90s: grey.  2000-on: grey and black.  Reds or greens if you're very lucky, in any of the above periods.

 Eddy, your old car pics crop up on threads, but i recon they would make a great read all on their own!

[Split_Pin]

I like ALL of the colours posted up so far. I have a silver car and it is terribly unrewarding to polish. Always looks the same as before no matter how hard you try.

 

Ford Titan blue from the early 80s is my all time favourite colour, especially on a MK3 Escort. I sprayed 3 of my models this colour.

[stormee]

What about this not green, not brown, not gold? I call it 'Undecided metallic'.

 

Any idea to that colour? This is clearly no VW paint, newer BMW or Porsche maybe?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Fucking hell, teddy bear wheel trims. A new low.

 

They're not trims,they're actual alloys,Ronal, I believe and quite sort after apparently.

[Hendry]

Vauxhall seemed to introduce two new shit colours with the original Corsa:

 

this purple was very fashionable for a while. I think all L and M plate Corsa's are this colour:

 

 

unless they are this equally vile green. I had a courtesy car just like this once -a diesel with no power steering. I loved it not at all.

 

Thankfully the most common colour for the facelift Corsa Bs (the V grille ones) is actually one of the best colours IMO, Arden blue.

 

Likewise the Peugeot 206, most common colour was light sapphire blue, as was the 1 I had, colour was the only likeable thing about the fucking POS

 

IMO blue is the best colour for cars, but yeah most future shite will be dull boring silver.