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hillmanseeker
Joined: 17 Nov 2012 Posts: 54
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 7:33 pm Post subject: Changing yor Classic Car Colour |
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Hi, What's everyone's view on wanting to change the original colour of your Classic Car ?
Do you think it would de value your cars worth?
We are thinking of changing the whole colour scheme of our car.
Thanks everyone,
Dave. |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22452 Location: UK
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hillmanseeker
Joined: 17 Nov 2012 Posts: 54
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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The colours of our car are a sort of beige/mag colour and the roof is a sort of winsor blue! Interior is red, metallic bronze dash etc.
We were thinking of black roof, very light pale yellow bodywork and wheels. A black interior with metallic silver dash etc.
Dave. |
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colwyn500
Joined: 21 Oct 2012 Posts: 1745 Location: Nairn, Scotland
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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I would say go for it apart from the silver dash. Yellow always gets my vote. Colours are always a matter for personal taste and even modern cars can have some really cacky colour schemes.
PS. You got me thinking and I nearly ordered yellow for the previously blue Fiat I am about to paint.
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4107 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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Go for it, there are loads of "original" restored vehicles......do something different
Dave |
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Minxy
Joined: 22 Sep 2010 Posts: 272 Location: West Northants
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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Purely a personal choice I would say, it's your car do with it as you wish. My opinion - no way would I change the colour, I personally think it devalues the car, I certainly would not buy a car with a change of colour unless it was priced to allow a change back ( I.e devalued). That said I may ( a big May) consider it if it was a period colour for that vehicle and it was a complete bare body, paint stripped re-spray. As Rick says nothing worse than opening a door to find a different colour........or lifting a carpet, opening a bonnet,boot etc.
My opinion of colour changes is much the same as number plate retention. |
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peppiB
Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 686 Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 8:58 am Post subject: |
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When I bought my Moggy 10 years ago it had a Cheap Reliable Affordable Paint job in Trafalgar blue, which was not the original colour. It took ages to find an unpainted area (eventually found one high up under the dash on the bulkhead) and it turned out the car had originally been Smoke Blue - a really drab moggy colour. I gave her a complete, inside and out, bare metal respray BUT chose Mercedes China Blue (close to the original colour, but much better to look at) At shows the number of people who came up to me and said 'I had a Minor that colour' They seemed a bit put out when I answered that it was actually a Mercedes, not Morris, colour.
As others have said, it is your car so do the paint for you.
I sold the Minor earlier this year - for double what I was expecting so certainly it wasn't devalued |
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