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Re: It's not easy being Green

Subject: Re: It's not easy being Green
From: Geoff Burns <gburns@directcon.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:19:47 -0700
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
References: <200209180427.g8I4RLr07344@teamfat2.dsl.aros.net> <B9AE31A2.10DC%dspence@oanet.com> <A$W09Qw0IOi9Ew$8@hargreave-mawson.demon.co.uk>
Mike,
I guess color like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I had a Dark Green TR6
that I loved, but the lighter shades offered in 75 & 76 were not my style.
Likewise the blue on the TR6 for sale on ebay right now is a disgrace to lbc's.
Take a look at
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1859848747#DESC
Geof in CA  69tr6

Michael Hargreave Mawson wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, at around 13:35:34 local time, Don Spence
> <dspence@oanet.com> wrote:
> > I would have a hard time living with that car just because of the colour.
> >Colour is very subjective and time sensitive. Remember all those fluorescent
> >green chargers, roadrunners eyc from the 70's? Would you buy a new car that
> >colour?  I've been pricing out 10-12 year old mercedes. Silver and gold are
> >selling for 3-4 K more than appliance white. Class lasts. Fashion fades.
>
> Boy, do we have different tastes!
>
> Silver (well, it's really more of a dirty pewter colour, but that
> doesn't sound so chic) is the current fashion for executive cars in UK,
> and seems designed to date faster than Kajagoogoo.   (It also seems
> deliberately designed to mimic the colour and sheen of tarmac roads in
> the rain, with not-so-hilarious consequences.).   I *hate* silver cars.
>
> Gold cars are only driven by drug dealers in early 1970s action movies
> (the exception being Ford Zephyrs, which were driven by petty criminals
> who aspired to being drug dealers).
>
> White and green cars, of course, are true class... <g>
>
> ATB
> --
> Mike

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