Daft car colour names

[Essex V6]

Reddish Blue - WTF!

 

[Honey Badger]

Honda Moonrock

 

 

 

Lady Boy Blue (may not be the actual colour name....)

 

 

[Dax]

one on the left is "Mexican Red" and on the right just "Red".

 

 

hope no Mexicans get insulted... 

[martc]

The MZ TS 125 was available in the same shade of blue as the blue worn by DDR Olympic athletes. It was called Olympic Blue. Typische germanischen Logik.

[Junkman]

Ford Olympic Blue

[Junkman]

Wicked Merlot Jewel Metallic - I'm NOT making this up! It's a Pontiac colour

Bronzit Beige Metallic - BMW

Egg Yolk Yellow - Ford

Scorched Penny - Scion xB

Squeeze Green - Ford

Assuan Brown - VW

Alien Green - Kia

Camel Pearl - Hyundai

Techno Pink - Chevrolet

 

The Opel/Vauxhall Adam comes in the following colours:

 

White My Fire

James Blond

Saturday White Fever

Buzz Lightgreen

Papa Don't Peach

Purple Fiction

Pump Up The Blue

The Greyfather

I'll be black

Greenspotting

Red'n'Roll

Mr Darkside

Dancing Green

Pink Kong

Silverwalker

A Star is Brown

[Partridge]

^^

Taken straight from the Leyland P76 colour chart with names like that?

 

It was them who gave us "oh fudge" and "casual sexism and racism brown" or something.

[pompei]

I had a metallic yellow Punto  -  Exploit Yellow it was called

[Taff]

did I dream it, or was one of my Mk Escorts painted Daytona Racing Yellow?

 

I like yellow. My Spitfire was Inca yellow and my PA Cresta was axle stand yellow

[kinkersaab]

A226VHX. Found this pic tonight, along with 100s of others, forgot i had this, it must have been a super early one, and belonged to a count von habsberg. Ace colour, never seen another...

Added montego turbo and carlton auto shite , just cos.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Daytona yellow ,my mk3 GT is this colour

 

70-73 ford colours where named after race tracks

 

Monza blue

sebring red

lemans green

Daytona yellow

 

sure theres two more

[Noel Tidybeard]

Is that not "Invacar blue"?

panda car blue

[PhilA]

Had a Fiat that was listed as "Rosso Red", which translated is just "Red red".

 

Also Ford's Lacquer Red, known to everybody else as burgundy, because nowhere listed it properly, and I still don't think the do. Ford's burgundy of the same era was less brown and apparently horrible to mix. We had a number of touch-up sticks that were labeled wrong over the years so the front of the car ended up looking like it had acne.

 

[michael1703]

I've got a jag x300 that is "kingfisher blue" which looks green

[Hendry]

Reddish Blue - WTF!

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I think Scooby did a colour called World Rally blue on the mk1 Impreza which isn't that odd considering winning the WRC is the thing the car is most known for, but what exactly is blue about the World Rally?

 

Another I thought of is Suzuki's "cats eye blue" and Citroen did a colour, mostly seen on C4 Picassos called "ken Icare" when I worked at a Citroen dealership, Nissans modern beige is officially called "cafe latte"

[RayMK]

When a Transit flatbed modified the hatchback on my son-in-law's parked Focus last year and drove off, I offered to find a decent tailgate in the correct colour at the scrappy's.  Focuses are as common as muck.  Easy. WRONG.  According to his car's details (paint code) and also checked on an official Ford database, the colour we needed was  Deep Rosso Red. Every tailgate in every scrappy was Pepper Red.  Touch-up paint in Halfords showed the two to be different, so I continued searching.  I found one or two cars of the correct year and Deep Rosso Red colour being broken.....but they had also been rear ended.  Eventually, we (I) decided to get a Pepper Red tailgate and have it resprayed if it looked silly.  Oddly, it was difficult to tell whether it was a different colour when I was transferring the loom, wipermotor and lock ect.   Once fitted, the colour was identical.  Ford don't help because they sometimes call the same colour on a different model a different name, and sometimes use the same name for a different shade on a different model.

 

I'm sure VW Golfs used to be available in Bile Green.  Give me Beige any day  .

[Hendry]

When a Transit flatbed modified the hatchback on my son-in-law's parked Focus last year and drove off, I offered to find a decent tailgate in the correct colour at the scrappy's.  Focuses are as common as muck.  Easy. WRONG.  According to his car's details (paint code) and also checked on an official Ford database, the colour we needed was  Deep Rosso Red. Every tailgate in every scrappy was Pepper Red.  Touch-up paint in Halfords showed the two to be different, so I continued searching.  I found one or two cars of the correct year and Deep Rosso Red colour being broken.....but they had also been rear ended.  Eventually, we (I) decided to get a Pepper Red tailgate and have it resprayed if it looked silly.  Oddly, it was difficult to tell whether it was a different colour when I was transferring the loom, wipermotor and lock ect.   Once fitted, the colour was identical.  Ford don't help because they sometimes call the same colour on a different model a different name, and sometimes use the same name for a different shade on a different model.

 

I'm sure VW Golfs used to be available in Bile Green.  Give me Beige any day  .

On Vauxhalls the common plain silver colour for years was called Star Silver, and any time a silver Vauxhall was listed for sale or any parts were always just listed as Star Silver in the description and they all looked the same, however there were actually Star Silver I, II and III all a very slightly different shade from the other, not usually a problem as due to years of production of each shade meaning you only got the 1 shade on each model, e.g. Mk3 Astras were all Star Silver I so you couldn't go wrong when getting spares in the same colour, but things like Corsa Cs came in both Star Silver II and III because that model was in production during changeover and if fitted with the 2 different shades due to replacement parts it wasn't hugely noticeable but enough to not look quite right as if the car had been in an accident and poorly paint matched on respray or like it was fresher or more weathered paint on the replacement panel depending on the shade. Made sourcing panels a nightmare because the seller didn't usually know which shade it was and the only way of telling was on the vin which most didn't have access to so usually you just had to take an educated guess.