Daft car colour names

[stormee]

Great idea of Mr Junkman, here we go.

Saxon blue.

 

[plasticvandan]

London Red

[Junkman]

Plum Crazy - my favourite name, but not my favourite colour

Panther Pink

Thanks Vermillion

Anti Establish Mint

Moulin Rouge - that's what Plymouth called Dodge's Panther Pink

In Violet - Plymouth speak for Plum Crazy

Vitamin C Orange - Dodge called it Go Mango

Lemon Twist on Plymouths was called Top Banana on Dodges

Sassy Grass

Sublime

Blue Fire

Sunny Melon

Highclass Grey

Caviar

Hardly Green

Countrypolitain

Original Cinnamon

Bring ‘Em Back Olive

Three Putt Green

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There She Blue

Young Turquoise

Hulla Blue

Good Clean Fawn

Counter Revolutionary Red

Knight White

Freudian Gilt

History Onyx

[320touring]

Luxorbeige metallic

[richardthestag]

Lunar grey

 

[derskine]

Champagne Beige

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

flamenco red- its quite clearly ORANGE!

[Partridge]

SIAC call what we'd call Ferrari Red "Manchester Red".

[hairnet]

bike colours

 

honda famous for stupid names.......

 

pearl acid yellow - actually lime green

 

boon silver metallic - does michael elphick come and clean it for you

 

cb900f in 1981 - cortina white - WIN

[Taff]

Jewish Racing Gold

[Spiny Norman]

Pogweasel pink.

[Noel Tidybeard]

Blueish Silver- does exactly as it says on the can

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But which colour is it, the bonnet or the rest of the car?

[Rocket88]

RUSsetT brown...................brilliantly predictive..................

[Sloth in a bowl]

Improved Engine Green and yes the designer (Stroudley) was colour blind.

 

[Taff]

according to Ford literature of the era, my Galaxie is tri-tone white, my assumption being that the roof was one shade, the area above the chrome a second and the lower body a third shade.

 

I suppose "tri-tone white" sounds far classier than "white"

 

[Craig the Princess]

Champagne Beige

 

 

 

Champagne Beige

[mercrocker]

Nobody has mentioned Wardance yet.

 

this site, etc...

[vulgalour]

Moonraker is utterly meaningless as a colour name.

 

[brickwall]

Vitamin "c"

 

[brickwall]

Anti-Establish Mint (seriously)

 

[steve_earwig]

Nobody has mentioned Wardance yet.

 

this site, etc...

The atmosphere's strange...

 

Ok then

 

Wardance

 

May as well do Sundance while we're here

[Sloth in a bowl]

Vitamin "c"

 

 

 

Well calling it, 'This will make you shit buckets' failed the customer survey test.

[Uncle Jimmy]

All car paint colour names?? Those for the Leyland P76 must rank as some of the most mental ever.

[Taff]

apologies for a tangent but I served my apprenticeship in a factory that made cranes. The paint for these cranes didn't have names, it had codes such as A6F or G3K, depending on the customer.

 

On my second day, I was sent to the stores for 20 litres of K9P.

[kinkersaab]

Calor Gas blue.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Renault call this Hessian on the logbook its beige. It is of course a total misrepresentation , much like thinking Espaces are viable transportation devices.

 

If you ask many people of a certain age in the motor trade in and around Milton Keynes,what colour this is. They will reply "Q-plate green" Milton Keynes Paint &Equipment even listed it as such in the mid nineties.

This is due to a prolific Transit ringer who was in league with the woman from the local DVLA office and painted all his vans this colour. He once placed Land Rover wheels next to a mk1 Astra estate to get a Q plate Frontera!

Both he and the crooked DVLA lady ended up in prison for quite a few years.

[kinkersaab]

Tahiti blue

[kinkersaab]

pannacotta...

[Partridge]

Volvo would sell you a V70 R in "saffron yellow" even though actual saffron is pinky reddy orange. They actually did a pinky reddy orange for it, which was actual saffron colour. Can't remember what they called it though.