I remember seeing some fluorescent Fords in the early 1970?s; they were either pale green or pink(ish) and were both on Capri and Escort models. The finish was matt, not metallic and they really were fluorescent. Not seen one for ages and ages.
Does anyone know if the paint was a Ford option, or did they represent a short-lived DIY fashion phase?
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man you not been to essex recently then have you
try driving round basildon on a saturday night
flourescent colours are alive and well on new and recent focus ST and focus RS which appear to be the only cars young essex lad about town will consider
to be fair there are a lot of ford employees there and i know lots of them are ford company cars or bought on the employee purchase scheme
but quite why anyone would pick those colours ?
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A Ford exec told me the bright orange colour for the Focus was originally only produced as a one-off for the TV advert.
Ford put it into production after customers asked for one: 'the same colour as on the telly'.
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Not quite fluorescent - or even Ford - but I remember in the late 90s you could get cars with a metallic speckly effect on the paintwork. If you moved along the side of the car (or it moved and you stayed) the shimmering metallic effect made the car appear to change colour - usually they were in blue/gren/red variations.
I chiefly remember them being on Nissan Primeras.
A nightmare for anyone working in a bodyshop to try and do a respray or match a colour.
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I've seen TVRs with strange colour shifting paint. I don't like it and think it spoils them but if their owners like it, well, fair enough.
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I saw a Rover 75 estate parked at Box Hill with this type of paint, I think I heard it called "flip flop" paint on an American customising programme. The Rover I saw was a very high quality respray.
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When I was driving company supplied Cortina Estates in the 70's, I specified and loved the "Signal Yellow" one I had for a while.
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TVR Paint is/was £800 a litre, I heard. Fluorecent colours were very popular on 2002 BMWs is the 70s
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I had an orange Land Rover pick up at one time. Hand painted it myself with a brush. It had a roll cage, a V8, big tyres, bull bars, huuuge Cibies and ski racks.
Cool eh ??
(I was quite young at the time)
;-)
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I saw a Rover 75 estate parked at Box Hill with this type of paint I think I heard it called "flip flop" paint on an American customising programme. The Rover I saw was a very high quality respray.
MG Rover actually offered several iridescent colours to special order as part of their Monogram range of special paints... so not necessarily a respray!
Metallic colours are bad enough when small repairs are needed... these flip paints must be even worse!
Edited by Typ 8L on 24/08/2009 at 01:28
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MG Rover actually offered several iridescent colours to special order as part of their Monogram range of special paints... so not necessarily a respray!
Thanks Typ 8L, had not seen a Rover with the "colour changing" paint before, didnt realise they did it as an original finish. It didnt look like a respray, just assumed it was, but Im no expert!
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I had a 1995 Mk1 Ford Mondeo that was Mallard Green, It was a metallic blue colour in daylight and under street lighting it looked purple/green.
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The OP describes Fords in fluorescent colours with a MATT finish.
I suspect he was playing with Hot Wheels cars whilst on hallucinogenic drugs!
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No Doctor Chris, I was not 'on' anything and the cars really were flourescent with a matt finish.
Does anyone remember them?
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I had a capri 1300 L(sad I know) in light orchid , sort of a pinky metalic colour , sort of shined when a car h/light cought it.
it was matt , as I did,nt wash it
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I take it from your "handle" that you live in the south ? Ye widny huv got away with driving a pink 1300 Capri in Embra y'ken.
;-)
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no a northener , sunny preston without the sea?
just happen to own a couple of (royal) enfields , and a sad pug 106 ,
been driving/fixing/rallying cars since the early 70s , and seen a lot of changes,
having searved my apprenticship , and working in both workshops and parts (for a lot of the major players) I got out about 5 yrs ago ,
things have changed ,
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Had an Escort back in the 90's in Pacifica Blue(manufacturer special edition)which was a flake metallic rather than the usual powder metallic.The finish looked awful in normal light but when the sun came out,it looked fabulous.
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The OP describes Fords in fluorescent colours with a MATT finish. I suspect he was playing with Hot Wheels cars whilst on hallucinogenic drugs!
By "matt", I presume the OP really means "solid" or "non-metallic", not actually "non-specular".
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I seem to recall that Fiat (131 or a 132 - not sure which) back in the 70s came in a rather ghastly fluorescent green. Lots of IBM engineers had them, as they could easily be found when parked up.
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At one time Fords could be ordered with matt black bonnets.
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I had one , it was the "R" pack , as in capri 3000gtxlR , you also got a flexy maplight!
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"I seem to recall that Fiat (131 or a 132 - not sure which) back in the 70s came in a rather ghastly fluorescent green. Lots of IBM engineers had them, as they could easily be found when parked up"
A friend of mine had one of those (it was a 131). Trouble was, on Fiats of those days the original colour didn't last very long because the bodywork was soon speckled with blotches of brown tin-worm
Edited by Armstrong Sid on 24/08/2009 at 09:29
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Quote:...""Not quite fluorescent - or even Ford - but I remember in the late 90s you could get cars with a metallic speckly effect on the paintwork. If you moved along the side of the car (or it moved and you stayed) the shimmering metallic effect made the car appear to change colour - usually they were in blue/gren/red variations.""
Especially bad were the 'dirty look' Renault Lagunas, where the paint changed from dark metallic green to metallic brown as one moved around the car.
Edited by Sofa Spud on 24/08/2009 at 13:03
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Quote:...""Not quite fluorescent - or even Ford - but I remember in the late 90s you could get cars with a metallic speckly effect on the paintwork. If you moved along the side of the car (or it moved and you stayed) the shimmering metallic effect made the car appear to change colour - usually they were in blue/gren/red variations.""
That's 'pearlescent' paint. My Megane is 'Rouge Nacre' - 'Pearl Red'. Just looks like a solid deep red on a dull day but looks great in the sun when you get the shimmer.
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Daughter's fiance's Skyline is painted in some sort of very expensive pearlescent white. Looks almost matt on a dull day, a very subtle finish.
I like dark battleship grey myself. But I might be tempted to get an artist to do some discreet mud-splashes around the sides and rear, in gold...
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Ford produced some Mk I Mondeos in "fluorescent" green ISTR.
On the subject of "flip" paint, my ex brother in law works for a car bodyshop. They had a Nissan Primera in for repair with the purple/green flip coating. The paint was eye-wateringly expensive but with the paint that was left over the bodyshop crew set about painting their lunch boxes, tool boxes, bicycles mobile phones etc. to good effect.
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Typ 8L
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"By "matt", I presume the OP really means "solid" or "non-metallic", not actually "non-specular"."
I do really mean 'non-specular' in the same way that RAF Air-Sea rescue helicopters have (or had) DayGlo noses.
These cars were around in the early 1970's and I felt sure that some of the older Forum members would remember seeing them.
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I do really mean 'non-specular' in the same way that RAF Air-Sea rescue helicopters have (or had) DayGlo noses.
Hmmm - curious... maybe the dayglo paint didn't weather very well? Come to think of it, dayglo Dyno-Rod vans aren't always very shiny either.
Actually its the Navy's helicopters that have dayglo red noses - the RAF's are yellow all over.
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I thought the Dayglo panels were only on training planes.
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