Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[clan chieftain]

I have never liked the BL Champagne beige or Sandglow or Snapdragon. I have never fancied white as a colour either as its too hard to keep clean.
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The Clan Chieftain

[welshrover]

i think the only vehicles sandglow looks good on, is the camel trophy landrovers /range rovers.
not too keen on metallics either, these new cars are half laquered under the bonnets door shuts etc.and dont start me on orange peel on modern car finishes. my mums brand new metallic blue punto was so bad, when i looked at it and told her the paint is awful she took it back to fiat and told them to refinish it or will be wanting a full refund. so they sent it to their bodyshop it came back better but i wouldnt say brilliant .that was after it broke down 5 miles from the dealers .then they found out half the screws and caps were missing out of those plastic arch liners .and the soundproofing under the bonnet was sagging onto the engine when she opened the bonnet .there was a batch of 30 new punto's delivered. all of them unfinished /poor paint jobs etc .ill keep to my classics thanks .

[ukdave2002]

[Bitumen Boy]

White cars can't hide the rust either - even the tiniest stonechip can't fester for long without you knowing about it. I don't like beige, or the ubiquitous silver-grey colour you get now, or the weird opalescent colours some of the boyracers go in for round here, or orange, or most shades of brown, or...

[peppiB]

I will never again have a white car. have had 2 and both were written off with me inside them

[Riley Blue]

Green. I once had two green company cars. Driving to work in them through the countryside was a nightmare as they were too well camouflaged. I had to drive the lights on all the time and got flashed at constantly.

[ukdave2002]

[Penman]

Hi
Why is it that if you park a white car next to a black car and it rains, that all the white dirt settles on the black one and the black dirt settles on the white one????????
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Bristols should always come in pairs.

Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
V8 V10

[welshrover]

[Bitumen Boy]

[Ironhead]

brown.-bro.-in-law had a Reliant Scimitar once..lovely car,but brown ugh!

[Scotty]

I got a killer deal on a hardly used, 4-year old 1972 Austin 1800S in 1976 (YGG 111 J) from a retired gentleman who found it too big for him to drive - however it was a BL colour I'd never normally buy ....... Limeflower.

[clan chieftain]

On a warm day a white car is always cold to touch as white deflects heat.
I have only had one two tone car a 1957 Consul. Light blue with a dark blue roof.
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The Clan Chieftain