----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Hargreave Mawson" <OC@46thFoot.com>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:29 PM
Subject: It's not easy being Green
> 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
Mike, I'm with you. I love white cars. Timeless and classic. And they
don't heat up in the sun!
Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa 65/2597, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 TR4 CT2846L
pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/ http://www.vtr2002.org
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