> Buy your family a teal Chevy or Ford and do the Lotus as you like it.
If I could afford to do that, lots of things would be different. First
off, I would replace the Mighty K-wagon with a Saturn wagon, 5-speed, twin
cam. Salt is the curse of this town. I offered to repaint the Mighty
K-wagon in the teal someday, but Susie told me that she wanted it to stay
silver-grey for that "Q-ship" effect, but the Lotus was an exotic that
demanded a flashy color.
> call it "Re-Sale Red", I'm never going to sell it. That trendy pastel green
> came back a couple of years ago on Chevys, and I suppose it will probably be
> gone and out of style next year.
So who cares what is "in style"? The color we settled on for the Lotus
is the one on a Honda that I like, too. It is essentially my second choice
after the the original yellow. Both red and black get too damned hot in
the sun, and this fiberglass has suffered enough.
> When I was young and foolish I painted my MGA "Metal Flake Candy Apple
>Purple".
> Remember that era, when you used to see those colors on VW dune buggies? I
> wonder where that car is now, maybe some subsequent owner is cursing me, the
> infamous PO.
A matter of taste. It was not STUPID like painting a fiberglass car,
in Hawaii, black.
> Last year at a British Car show I saw a pale pink metallic MGA
Might be OK, I'd have to see it.
> and a tartan plaid MGTD.
Sounds delightfully funky to me. Like a whole car painted with a Union Jack.
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