white=cooler interior in the summer due to reflecting the heat
black=red hot in summer due to absorbing heat
yellow=loads of flys and bumbly bees bugging you in the summer wherever you go
red=that"ll do im not really into colours
pink=look at my car im a girly girl
blue=i hate cars so will get the cheapest new i can
silver= how much will it be worth when im finished with it
green=i like to blend in
purple=mispent youth
only my opinions mind////.......
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white=cooler interior in the summer due to reflecting the heat black=red hot in summer due to absorbing heat yellow=loads of flys and bumbly bees bugging you in the summer wherever you go red=that"ll do im not really into colours pink=look at my car im a girly girl blue=i hate cars so will get the cheapest new i can silver= how much will it be worth when im finished with it green=i like to blend in purple=mispent youth only my opinions mind////.......
All of the above car colours, with the exception of black, would be considerably enhanced with the addition of a vinyl roof. Car styling reached the height of sophistication during that era, they really ought to bring it back.
White Capris with tan coloured roofs looked fantastic.
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It seems I just can't do car colours at all!
My first car:
tinyurl.com/k4bwg
My current car:
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I'll get it right third time around.
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Sorry - didn't realise how small that second picture was - you all know what it looks like though!
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Your second car is a Focus your first car is out of focus
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
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Yeah - my photographic skills aren't great - add to that it was the first camera phone ever built!
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it was the first camera phone ever built!>>
You have friends in high places then Adam..:-)
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I saw a white mondeo (first shape) the other month with white bumpers. It was such an eyesore I had to have a second look and then regreted it. For me white cars depend on make and model. I have a white P reg clio that has black/grey bumpers and love the way it looks. ahfter a good wash it is still one of the best looking cars on the road.
Why does every other person rave about sliver cars. Silver has been round for many years, has mankind only started to think of the dirt conceling properties of the paint?
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On holiday in the USA earlier this year, our rental car turned out to be a white Nissan Sentra.
At one stage we found ourselves at lights, and both the car in front and the car behind were white, and were manufactured by Nissan.
The thought that occured to me at the time was "In Britain, the probablilty of seeing 3 white Nissans in a row (without it having been arranged) would be incredibly low - a bit like 3 Aston Martins, or 3 Peroduas."
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I had a white Merc C Class in the mid 90's - it was OK during the day but at night you were always being flagged down as a taxi.
With 3 late teens sons @ that time it often felt like being an unpaid taxi service
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You utter peasant Robin, A white capri with a tan roof? Girls would laugh at you.
WHITE capri Mk1 (facelift) with BLACK vinyl roof and a three stripe RED coachline.
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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You utter peasant Robin, A white capri with a tan roof? Girls would laugh at you. WHITE capri Mk1 (facelift) with BLACK vinyl roof and a three stripe RED coachline. ------------------------------
Nah, they were too busy admiring the headlining ;-)
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Thye days when cars had a lever for the backrest control, one quick tug upwards on the lever the seat back went right back down flat in one move.
How does the youth manage today with a wheel that takes 15 minutes to twiddle round.
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"How does the youth manage today with a wheel that takes 15 minutes to twiddle round"
I'll tell you RF. Inventive experimentation with different positions. Missionary is so last decade.
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At last someone who actually likes another colour other than grey, gray, silver, dark silver, magnum black, charcoal black, black and more black, metalic grey, metalic black whatever etc. Why are so many people so boring with their choice of colour ? How do they find their car in a car park when every other car is grey or black ?
They are invisible on the roads and in fog or dull conditions totally lethal, even when their auto-light -up system secretly comes on to inform other drivers and pedestrians their is another car on the road and not a UFO !
Sure white looks better on some cars than others, but please anything other than another grey or black car please I beg you. Even pink with white spots, green with purple go faster things, anything but no more grey or black. Bright Red is wonderful, Matellic Blue, even Yellow (looks great when the daffs are out in spring), they all give you that "it's a lovely day feel" rather than "I'm feeling grey" again today feel, yuk who needs that.
White with a blue light on top is still cool with the police, just look at the cars they use to get a flavour of what it looks like in the flesh. Maybe they will do you a good deal on one !
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Yes I do like white cars in fact I owned a white 405 for 3 years.
As far as the dirt showing - as someone who seldom cleans their car, the peugeot always looked cleaner than my current black honda.
I just wondered if other people really dislike white nowadays.
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I had a white Astra a few years ago. Sold it no problem.
Also sold my Uncle's white Astra estate for him last year within 2 days. On a N plate I got £1,150 for it. There was hardly a mark on it. My Unc always says for some reason white cars dont get hit in car parks so much and people can see them on the road better. (Not my words, my uncle's)
Whether that true or not I've no idea.
A Laguna can look smart in white, a Mondeo can not. Neither can a Range Rover, a fiesta, a 406 .......
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A Laguna can look smart in white, a Mondeo can not. Neither can a Range Rover, a fiesta, a 406 .......
i dunno, my company Fiesta (K reg) was white, and looked quite nice. Shame it was a weedy 1100 and had several rubbish cheapo features.
My 1990 Corolla looked very smart in white in my opinion. It had blacked out pillers, which makes a huge difference, and the white was a deep white, rather than wishy washy. Different shades of white? There must be.
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With just a little bit of tasteful trim, any car can look good in white. Imagine a white Mondeo with a vinyl roof trimmed off with chrome edging.
I agree wholeheartedly on silver, it is absolutely vile. And if you want a car that shows a stonechip up from Mars, black is the way to go.
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>>blue=i hate cars so will get the cheapest new i can
I don't know about the hating cars bit, but, our blue Astra was certainly nice and cheap when we bought it at six months old! As we intend to run it in to the ground, the resale value is, happily, irrelevant.
Number_Cruncher
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I had to practically threaten physical violence on the salesman to get him to agree to order me an 'arctic White' Subaru Outback. I like it, so that's all right then. I have just passed it on to my daughter; she likes it too except for guess what, the "naff colour". Ungrateful child!
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White cars look really bad with rust stains streaking down them as they get older. The rust seems to stain white paint on panels that aren't even corroded yet. My old metalic red Ford on the other hand hid the inevitable rust very well.
White cars tend to look scruffy quicker than can cars in darker colours
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- RichieW bit of jif (cif) will get rid off those stains prior to selling/p/xing ;-)
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In the late fifties, I think it was, my cousin bought a brand new white Riley saloon and proceeded to wash it regularly with a buckets of warm to hot water liberally sprinkled with the current (then) clothes detergent which was either Tide or OMO. Needless to say, that within a year the paint was flat and there were rust marks and stains all over the place - what a nutter he then was!
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I always used Fairy Liquid on the white motor I ran for a while in the fifties. What I liked were the twotone paint jobs that were around then. Not the ones used by Starsky & Hutch tho. Was a smart motor locally Riley RM with black mudgards and rear valance the lower half of the body in cream and the top in cream with black vinyl roof.
Happy Motoring days long gone
Phil I
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i love two tone cars i would do one myself but the wife hates them,saying that her favourite colour is that horrible ivory white on rover 45"s so i rest my case (she"s out so im safe)
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Robin Reliant - that tan roof you refer to on 70s Fords was known as "tobacco". When my dad bought his new (white) MkII 1.6 XL Capri in 1975 he had the choice of black or tobacco vinyl - he went for the black. Our local Ford dealer was doing a special on new white MkII Capris at the time called the "Spectrumobile". With the tobacco roof you got gold one foot width panels down the side and bonnet centre panel and with the black roof you got metallic blue, "Miami Blue" IIRC. He replaced the car in 1978 with one of the last MkII Capris an ex demo 2.0 Ghia in white also with black vinyl roof. I had to wax the damn thing with a special sort of Turtle wax vinyl roof/tyre wax.
How did you feel about the white vinyl roof on the blue Hillman Avenger - the "Top Hat Special"? Bet that was a pig to keep clean.
Re white cars, I also think they're making a comeback. I've seen both a new Volvo S60 and an Audi A4 in white - both looked really good. I also think solid red is due a renaissance. They look good but people are scared about the resale value, simple as
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My Capri was actually LeMans green with a black vinyl top, the Mk 1 face-lift. The best looking of the Capri family in my opinion. I had a Mk 3 some years later, but I never liked it as much. I though they had softened the lines a bit too much.
My first car was also green with a vinyl roof, a Reliant Regal Supervan 111. Vinyl gets in your blood, you always hanker after it.
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A late contribution to the resale issue: in some areas, local authorities insist on taxis being white, which encourages a good market for suitable saloons.
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Agreed that the MkI facelift was the best of the line - classic MkI shape, revised dash that lasted until 1987, bigger head and tail lamps and OHC engines.
To complete the story my dad's first Capri was an Ermine white 69F 1.6GT with all the option packs ie X, L and R (although he didn't have the bonnet done in matt black only the rear panel) - this model is probably a rarity today.
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Unfortunately Marc, the OHC engine was a bit of a lemon. I think 30k was regarded as the life of the camshaft, they had problems getting enough oil to the top of the engine and it was regarded as suicide to leave oil changes any later than 3000 miles.
One hell of a bird puller though, even with the top end rattling like crazy. And footwells big enough so your flares didn't crease.
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not lack of oil tom it was the fact that oil was as good as cooking fat in those days and the spray bar clogged up.......
ford muttered in those dark days that the camshafts were going to get a better tuftriding (to appease the press) but it really was down to pitiful oil ........
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Happy memories! I still have a U shaped spanner that you needed to get to the locknuts to adjust the valves. Unfortunately it was made of cheese and the jaws just sprung apart so it was still a trip to the garage and a hefty bill.
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i made my own spanner for the locknuts behind the carb ,i just hope that the thieves that nicked all my tackle 13 years ago knew a spanner from a hammer because i would have liked to show them what a hammer can actually do :-)
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,i just hope that the thieves that nicked all my tackle 13 years ago
Sorry you lost all yr tackle om... some toerag stole all my tools just round the corner quite a few years ago. I suppose that's what you deserve if you leave them in a wicker basket in the luggage area of a Lada estate.... still got my tackle though ... :o)
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