Favourite colours for cars

[NewcastleFalcon]

Watching 'The Antiques Road Trip' yesterday they were using one of these for transport, that colour was certainly a good choice by Morris.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?view ... ajaxserp=0

Hampsons sold one for £22,667 in March 2023. 100 images still on line with the sale details.

https://auctions.hampsonauctions.com/au ... 6&pn=1&g=1

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

I absolutely adore this colour I also rather like the car too...

Spotted at least 3 of Jim's Yellow Peugeot 208's (Faro Yellow) on our travels today having been pre-primed, and one in this new colour which is described as Agueda Yellow, but is better termed bright green! in the rendition on the website. In the flesh its more a light yellow-ey green. Didn't peek round its rear could have been the e-208 but the petrol and hybrid versions also have the same colour option.

Website Rendition

In reality

Neil

[CitroJim]

I think I prefer the deeper yellow...

[CitroJim]

Another yellow car spotted during my morning perambulations today

Looks like a pot of mustard!

[Vic Evans]

Another yellow car spotted during my morning perambulations today

Mme Vic had a yellow 2cv when we were still in the UK.
She thought the colour of 'The Snail' as it was called would make it more visible to road going bullies.
Didn't stop it being squashed by a bus that cut her up

[NewcastleFalcon]

Agueda Yellow.....always something new to learn about.

Where does the Agueda name come from

Here

Spoiler: show

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

This looks good. Don't come up that often at auction, 4 doors and an auto, chances are it has had a gentle life so far, 54,000 miles Renault 5 Prima 1990. Stands nice in the only photo so far, advance preview of the WB and Sons September sale (not in this Saturday's July sale.) Guided currently at £2,000 to £3,000.

Best colour for a Renault 5?



Neil

[CitroJim]

Ohh!! That looks lovely

[mickthemaverick]

With the recent theme of yellow in my mind I came across this beauty:

BFTW

Details here

[CitroJim]

That's rather lovely Mick

[NewcastleFalcon]

Mick has slapped up a very rare in the UK 1971 Peugeot 504 Pininfarina Cabriolet on the open top motoring thread here... viewtopic.php?p=807246#p807246 Very nice.

Back in 2018 spotted this coupé version in all its gorgeousness. Well worth digging out, and it is a decent enough colour to make it to this thread,

Neil

[CitroJim]

Gorgeous is exactly the right word

[NewcastleFalcon]

Hagerty have an excellent article here on the Polo Harlequin. Started out as a Car show Gimmick, and ended up in a special edition production run. They weren't all the same pattern/position of colours.

100 points for an on-the-road or in-the-carpark spot of one of these in 2024.


Hargerty Story
https://www.hagerty.co.uk/articles/auto ... zy-colour/

Polo-Harlekin Jbeckers, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons

VW Polo Harlekin Bruno Kussler Marques, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Neil

[CitroJim]

Terrible things happen when there's a paint shortage in the factory

[NewcastleFalcon]

You may recall the Gold Dalliance on the thread. Came across another from "Iconic Auctioneers" up coming Sale.
Maybe a car which may be one that could crop up in Bobin's thread here.

What cars should everyone drive at least once and why?
viewtopic.php?p=808076#p808076

Not for me, quite happy with the BB Leaf and BB Micra, and not for the owner/owners of this car over the 23 years
since it came off the production line. It has only provided an apparent 564 miles of driving experience for all of its owners in 23 years, way less than the Leaf and the Micra have for me.

Its been treated not as a car, but as a possession and like a work of art and has hardly turned a wheel.

Gold...Still not quite done yet...

Full Gallery Here https://www.iconicauctioneers.com/2001- ... rston-0824

561.2 Miles showing on the odometer must have done an exciting 2.8 more since the photoshoot

Neil