Growler started me off with his comment on the pretentiousness of "Panther Black".
What should colours really be called? Here's a few - other suggestions eagerly awaited.
Bland Silver
Drug-dealer Black
Anonymous Grey
Tart Red
OAP Beige
Taxi White
and, of course, "utterly beautiful blue metallic"*
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*Next poll: to guess the colour of my cars, maybe...
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What about:
IDS Grey;
Rapper Black;
Team GB Bronze ?
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Reminds me of an advert for Dunlop (I think) tyres, which had a 'Dulux'-type colour chart with twenty or so identical blacks - each with a description such as "Calcutta black" ......
ended with - "any colour you like, so long as it's black"!
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I think we have Quentin Willson to thank for:
Hearing aid beige
Varicose vein blue
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British Raging Green
Ghetto Graphitti Metalic
Tailgate Chasing White
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I think we have Quentin Willson to thank for: Hearing aid beige
No, I heard that one when QW was still in short trousers.
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Skid Mark (brown or black depending on your sensibilities!)
Bird Poo Purple Berry surprise
Thousand wash grey.
Doesn't show the dirt beige
Crash damage multicolour special.
It looked-ok-in-the-showroom-honest-dear scary green.
Poser Red.
teabelly
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Pebble dash Orange,
\'Also available in gloss\' red.
Bananna yellow,
girly pink,
Vommit green.
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Primer pearlescent mettalic - glossy version of "red lead".
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The paint codes of my current cars are fairly descriptive:
Jaguar - Sapphire Blue
Chevy - Bright Red
The most pretentious was my Porsche, Diamond Blue Metallic, which was actually grey. It's biggest advantage was that it never, ever looked dirty.
I'm certain that my dad isn't colourblind but I have no explanation why he once owned a Rover in what can only be described as 'diarrhea-brown' and a MkIII Cortina GT in fluorescent green. Seeing them side by side was not advisable after a heavy meal. Anyone know what the official colour codes were?
Kevin...
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One which amused me -- it just seemed so right -- was the "Candy Apple Red" of the 1965-6 Mustang. The name went so well with one of Ford's ad campaigns at the time, when the 6 cyl wasn't selling, everyone wanted the V-8), which was bannered "Six & The Single Girl".
I have it in my Mustang library somewhere. So 1960's!
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Remember "Bracken" - a horrible BL shade of the 70s. My father had a Wolseley Six Land Crab in it. He always called it "diarrhoea brown".
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I remember about 5 years ago, I think it was Car magazine? had an article that said the BMW he was testing was Jewish Racing Gold. Ooops! what a furore that followed.
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