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[rexy]

They are never easy on the eye.
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Mercs, veedubs, peugeots etc. Surely you would pick another colour?

[Potta]

Starting to notice a lot of gunmetal grey too.

 

Seems to be the carbon black of the new generation

[76lxhatch]

They ran out of silver paint.

[yel327]

Max Wilson's descendants must be in the car game. He loved his brown with brown vinyl roof and brown trim HQ's. The Company made at least three GTS 350's for him in that combo.

[Statler]

It's not called brown any more.

 

Nice brown Merc m8. 

It's not brown, it's Champagne mud pool.

[Dr Terry]

The colour name on my brown HQ was 'Nutmeg Metallic'.

 

Dr Terry

[myss427]

There are lot of companies that have been making brown cars for years, just not in the paint!

[yel327]

The colour name on my brown HQ was 'Nutmeg Metallic'.

Dr Terry

Terry is spot on. My HJ Premier is called Sepia, but it looks black/brown in the shade. My HG GTS350 is Florentine Gold Metallic - looks awfully brown to me.

[Collo]

The colour name on my brown HQ was 'Nutmeg Metallic'.

 

Dr Terry

Yep, my brown lj is Nutmeg 

[Redzone]

It's not just the euros, Mazda have a metallic brown and so does Lexus.

I don't get it either.

Hyundai even has a flat non metallic grey that looks the spitting image of acrylic primer. Young guys are going nuts over it the sick bastards.

[yel327]

Royal Umber, an EH? through to HQ colour. Sounds really exotic but a more apt name would be turd brown! Plenty of other examples too.

[Pop's-SS]

G'day All

 

Yes, todays car colours are very bland, black, silver, white so when we were on our 2009 Tassie Torana Tour, it wasn't hard to pick out our Mandarin Red and Absynth Yellow Toranas 

 

 

AND when we parked outside of Holden's Fishermens Bend Plant in Melbourne, they stuck out like a pimple on a bum 

 

 

RegardSS ... Barry

[yel327]

Go back and look at the palette change introduced with colour chart A632 (from memory) for Holden and Torana when Commodore was released. The whole palette went darker, far less bright colours overall.

[N/A-PWR]

A new looking Panel-van on show in '88':-

 

http://www.ejehclubq...p?TOPIC_ID=9683

 

 

 

There is probably a peoples choice poll that manufacturers use as a guide for colour idea's 

[N/A-PWR]

Probably to keep the Chick's in

 

 

 some brown 4x4 vehicles are OK:-

 

[madtoranajzedded]

She looks built to handle a flogging 😉

Edited by madtoranajzedded, 02 December 2016 - 02:44 PM.

[N/A-PWR]

She must use a lot of rubber,

 

 no wonder brown is in.

Brown Cars are for Mud

[RallyRed]

Only one way to get that out of there...they need a snatch strap

[Ice]

Only one way to get that out of there...they need a snatch strap

What about the 4WD

[S pack]

What about the 4WD

It's a Jeep, nobody cares.

[Potta]

It will catch on fire shortly.

 

 

It's not just the euros, Mazda have a metallic brown and so does Lexus.

I don't get it either.

Hyundai even has a flat non metallic grey that looks the spitting image of acrylic primer. Young guys are going nuts over it the sick bastards.

 

Yeah to me it looks like primer with clear coat over the top.

[StephenSLR]

 

It doesn't look too bad in this light.

 

It's not brown, it's Champagne mud pool.

 

Ha! Love it.

 

Yeah manufacturers are looking at colours that separate from the last range to give the impression of being modern. I've noticed the cycles too, in the late 80's I recall looking over the rooftop carpark at Westfield's and most of the cars were red, then came silver. Similar with TV's, Stereo's, etc. they went from woodgrain to silver to black.

 

I guess brown can look okay with a nice gold fleck through it but yeah, not for me.

 

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Edited by StephenSLR, 05 December 2016 - 09:03 AM.

[joeseph]

I think Mythbusters confirmed that you can polish a turd, but not everyone would want to...