Old(er) car colour names

[MickiQ]

In the early 80's I had a P Reg (1975) Morris Marina that was a sort of vomit yellow called 'Bold as Brass', It didn't really stay that colour though since they almost literally rusted away as you watched and body filler never seemed to take the paint the same as what was falsely claimed to be metal.
It had a brown vinyl roof as well that seemed to be made of better quality material than the bodyshell.

 

[Grump]

In the early 80's I had a P Reg (1975) Morris Marina that was a sort of vomit yellow called 'Bold as Brass', It didn't really stay that colour though since they almost literally rusted away as you watched and body filler never seemed to take the paint the same as what was falsely claimed to be metal.
It had a brown vinyl roof as well that seemed to be made of better quality material than the bodyshell.

I have been to Malta a few times and there are still quite a few marinas out there. I imagine the warm, dry climate keeps the rust at bay.

 

[MickiQ]

I have been to Malta a few times and there are still quite a few marinas out there. I imagine the warm, dry climate keeps the rust at bay.

The yellow one (I had 2 more of the fuckers, they may have been crap but at least they were cheap crap) ended up in the scrapyard after the oil pipe fell off and went rattling around inside the sump.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Anything from the 60s/70s had terrible colours.

Shit brown
Snot green
Baby-puke yellow
Metallic rust
Austin (insert shit colour here)
Datsun (insert shit colour here)
Cyclist beige

i think you mean

Sienna
Limeflower
Harvest Gold
Black Tulip
Bedouin

1970s BL colour chart -

 

[weltweit]

Ford Peppermint Sea Green - It is what I painted my motorcycle

 

[Baronage-Phase]

I have a pearl white Toyota, too, and it's a lovely finish (but a nightmare to paint match...) I just have so many childhood memories of Kiwis ordering another bloody Corolla in that banal flat white.

I went for an hour long drive today. The dead bugs sure show up on white.....
How often did you have to wash it?
Plus....I think I got caught slightly speeding.

 

[MickiQ]

Had one of these shitboxes as well, this isn't mine but it's the same year (1983) and the same colour, I bought it in 1988 the year my eldest girl was born, after it broke down a couple of years later stranding us in Stoke one dark wintry night, Mrs MickiQ put her foot down and all car purchases were subject to a spousal veto, I ended up paying a lot more from then on but they were far more reliable.

 

[Poi E]

I went for an hour long drive today. The dead bugs sure show up on white.....
How often did you have to wash it?
Plus....I think I got caught slightly speeding.

Slightly speeding is fine. They just give you a slight fine. Dead bugs are a sign you've been speeding, too.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Slightly speeding is fine. They just give you a slight fine. Dead bugs are a sign you've been speeding, too.

55 km in a 50km area...

2 gardai hidden in bushes....

 

[Poi E]

Ahh, poop.

Concerning washing your car, stay away from detailing forums as the people there are quite mad.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Ahh, poop.

Concerning washing your car, stay away from detailing forums as the people there are quite mad.

Nah...it'll be a bucket and sponge home job...

 

[Poi E]

OK, but the two bucket method, right? With pre-wash snow foam followed by car shampoo

 

[Baronage-Phase]

OK, but the two bucket method, right? With pre-wash snow foam followed by car shampoo

For a few flies on the bumper?... lol...

Ok....I'll sort out some suds...

Eta...not wash up liquid...I learned not to use that a few years ago
..

 

[A380]

My Mark 1 Fiesta was in this lovely beige.

 

[Poi E]

Jesus, just the primer and it's out the plant door.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

My Mark 1 Fiesta was in this lovely beige.

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Sorry but "lovely" and "beige" don't compute....

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Mine was a 1984 version, same colour it wasn't a rust bucket tbf

mid 80s Fords were a bit of a lottery - depends where they were built and where they had got the steel from that month.

mine was also new in Tyneside so would have met more salt on the roads during the winter than soft southern cars.

it had to be put out of its misery in early 1997 when it got to a stage there wasn't enough solid to weld bits to.

 

[A380]

mid 80s Fords were a bit of a lottery - depends where they were built and where they had got the steel from that month.

mine was also new in Tyneside so would have met more salt on the roads during the winter than soft southern cars.

it had to be put out of its misery in early 1997 when it got to a stage there wasn't enough solid to weld bits to.

Mine had the benefit of a soft southern climate and yet the headlight surrounds and front six inches of both wings were entirely filler. Well filler over a cereal packet cardboard substrate in the case of one of the wings...

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I had an interesting breakdown (fail to start) with mine that took the breakdown driver a while to work out why we couldn't tow-start it.

The strap from the battery negative terminal to the body was bolted to a bit that was so rusty it wasn't making a circuit. He hadn't seen that before...

 

[Poi E]

Mine had the benefit of a soft southern climate and yet the headlight surrounds and front six inches of both wings were entirely filler. Well filler over a cereal packet cardboard substrate in the case of one of the wings...

Rust around headlight surrounds. Yeah, that was a very British car sort of thing. Always wondered how they engineered that in.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

From website dedicated to Mk 1 & 2 Ford FIestas - list of Mk 1 Ford Fiesta colours here

think 'sierra beige' is the one referred to above.

 

[Poi E]

Malaise beige is the correct term.

 

[hash tag]

I had a 2.0 GXL mk 3 Cortina for a while. I'm sure it was described as something like Sebring red....it was orange (with black vinyl roof).

 

[OzT]

Ford Peppermint Sea Green - It is what I painted my motorcycle

How could you!!!! though I did spray the tank once with Signal Red, but that's a proper hard name. Pepperming Sea Green, I ask you . . . .

55 km in a 50km area...

2 gardai hidden in bushes....

Doomed

 

[A380]

From website dedicated to Mk 1 & 2 Ford FIestas - list of Mk 1 Ford Fiesta colours here

think 'sierra beige' is the one referred to above.

Yeah, I remember that now from the aerosol paint cans.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Doomed

It just dawned on me that I don't think the car is even registered in my name yet. Only got it on Friday...and the reg documents won't have been changed over.
More nightmare....

 

[A380]

DP.

 

[A380]

Did the guards stop you at the time? If so would they’d have dealt with the registration stuff there and then?

( Begining to think I should have started a ‘speeding tickets’ of the EU thread for my fascinating anecdote about my recent French offence rather than posting it on an existing transport thread...)

 

[weltweit]

How could you!!!! though I did spray the tank once with Signal Red, but that's a proper hard name. Pepperming Sea Green, I ask you . . . .

 

[OzT]

Does look nice. Put it in bike porn thread?

I was thinking of British bikes, wouldn't suit the rather sparser engine configuration of them, but looks good on a multi like that. I like the custom seat, guess you're not going for autobahn touring then