Classic cars you really dont like...

P6 can take these colours - the strong lines make it work IMHO.

Now if i were to choose one colour i'm personally not keen on it'd be red... although i guess i'm in the minority on that!

Rich
 
I was just about to say that red is ok, but it has to be a good finish, but actually that applies to all the colours, I'm happy with any colour as long as the car is spot on.

I'm not a fan of cars with "panels of many colours" where various panels have obviously been sprayed at different times with slightly different paint. My own 820 is like that, and it annoys me terribly every time I look at it, one day I will spray the whole car :LOL:
 
my mother had an allegro once (she's my mum!)
it was red but you park in under a streetlight at night and it changed colour to various shades of orange!
i could go for an allegro est for rocky mind!
he's outside now in his estate car that he refused to leave after his morning walkies :?
 
Amazing how many newish siver cars you see where it's obvious it's had a panel sprayed and they've "blended " the colour into the next panel resulting in a 2 shade door
If that was my car I'd send it back and tell them to match the paint properly
 
Tricky one this, I always say it's impossible to match them completely, you can always tell, even using the same paint you used to spray it originally, the background, method of application and of course the age of the paint on the car, all make a difference. Metalics are especially hard as the angle at which you spray the panel, affects the way the flakes lay in the paint and hence the way it looks.

Best option is to spray to a major change of panel direction, e.g. an entire side, etc.

Of course, if it is done perfectly, you won't know it was ever done, so there could be loads of cars driving around with perfectly matched repairs, that I've never noticed :LOL:
 
Rich (rockdemon)
I love Red Rovers ! :wink:
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This is my old 1979 Z28 Camaro, think it was red too ! :D
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miss this car, 5.7ltr SMB chevy, edelbrock, Holley 650 dp, headers, she ran best 14.7 down the 1/4 mile at santa pod
 
:)

All personal preference i know... but i'd go for tobacco almond or avacado over red.

I think its down to when i first started driving every second car on the roads was red, half of them faded to powder pink...

The boring colour five years ago was silver light blue, and i think that recently that has changed to grey/anthracite type colours...

Rich.
 
back on subject for me if I have to choose something it would be......... Reliant Robin and the Kitten.... have to say never really liked them, and never thought of them as cars, probably safer in water than on the roads :oops: Apollogies to all those who like them and it's only my opinion :roll:
 
LOL, I remember that V8 mean machine in Street Machine magazine Rich, must have been back in the 90's, Was it built by one of the Beardmore brothers? If so then they were legends in their car creations, are they still on the scene I wonder ?
 
Beardmores were fairly local to me, went round their place a few times. My mate helped Robin do the speaker install in his famous minor pickup. He also went for a ride in the Kitten, said it was mental, so much grip and torque with very little weight, rediculously fast for a stock rover v8.

Last I heard Robin was putting MX5 running gear into a minor, although that disappeared off the website, and John was selling his fantastic spaceframe minor.

Not much updated on their website recently. http://www.beardmorebros.co.uk
 
v8guy said:
back on subject for me if I have to choose something it would be......... Reliant Robin and the Kitten.... have to say never really liked them, and never thought of them as cars, probably safer in water than on the roads :oops: Apollogies to all those who like them and it's only my opinion :roll:
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I have to agree. I've got a very open mind, and up until now I didn't think there was any classic that I didn't like, but the Robin has brought me back to earth!
I've always respected that every car has its following, and what one person sees as a flaw, another sees as a characterful feature.... but I just plain can't tolerate the Robin.
My beef is that it is a fundamentally (and literally) backwards design. It was so obviously designed by a committee who sat down and thought "let's just make an ordinary car and then delete a wheel - the steering rack is heavy, so let's get rid of that. Bit of fiberglass, tell the dealers to expect it".
What flabbergasts me is that nobody looked at Morgan for inspiration. Two wheels at the front gives stability. FR layout with chain-driven trailing arm rear suspension gives reasonable weight distribution, excellent handling and eliminates the need for a diff, prop shafts, rear chassis, etc. It will go round corners flat, and you can have two massive panniers for the boot-space. Okay, it might let go at the rear in the wet, but what do you expect for a fiberglass car you can drive on a bike license??!

An object lesson in the reverse-engineering approach of the smaller British producers....

Michael
 
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