You actually drive that? Without a paper bag on your head?

[PepperElf]

Not "roadkill" cos there was no driving suck. Just an "I can't believe you drive that in public" kind of suck.


I wish I'd gotten a photo of it but... I was driving and it was on a 7 lane road in the retail/mall part of town with crazy drivers.

Car goes by me ... and .. o boy. it's not just Green, it's puke-primer-green. Only I think they didn't really use primer but actual car paint. As in someone actually paid money to get a car painted this color.

And it's not even a good car - it's an old boxy-style sedan. not even something that looks classic.

and seriously it was this color.
and i know it was on purpose cos... o look, the insides of your tires were painted the same ugly shade of green.



I wonder... if that driver thought it was "cool"
cos... i don't know about the others on the road but my reaction was:

[SongsOfDragons]

Excellent.

There's a car down my road that's a brilliant shade of lime green. And one that lives around here that's pretending to be a tangerine.

Top Gear had a great short where poor Hammond had to test drive a convertible Nissan Micra that was bright pink, around his home village. ^^ I've seen one brighter, it was more a flourescent cerise. It hurt my eyes...

[bhskittykatt]

We have several Jeeps around here that are that color. I figured they must've been forest service vehicles or something that were auctioned off. One guy even appears to own two of them.

[protege]

and seriously it was this color.

It could have been worse. GM once tried to sell their Geo/Chevy Trackers...in the interesting color combo of baby blue body, and pink wheels. Why GM thought it was a good idea, I'll never know. As for those Trackers, that particular color combo really wasn't a strong seller--they'd sit on the dealer's forecourts for months before someone desperate for a ride would buy them...or the dealer would swap out the pink rims for silver ones.

If you really want to see some strange colors, look at some of the 1970s shades BL offered on MGs. Just about every shade of the rainbow. Many of those 'odd' colors are rarely seen now. Too bad, since a Mirage (lavender) B tends to draw attention at shows.

[Shalom]

What is it about green cars?

My grandfather's car when I was a kid was a 1968 Dodge Dart. That thing was bulletproof, but it had no A/C, no radio, (well unless you count the little Panasonic transistor that was rubberbanded to the sun visor) not very pleasant to drive in the summer months. Also, it was green. This is exactly what it looked like - might even be the same car for all I know: http://www.oldparkedcars.com/2010/11...art-sedan.html Come to think of it, the folding bike in the picture also looks exactly like one my grandfather had, although he didn't own them both at the same time.

Still, not as ugly as the 1999 FIAT Multipla. I heard someone describe that as a two-bagger: one for the car, and one for his head in case the one on the car blows off. Google for the image at your peril, I'm not posting any link to it...

[sms001]

My wife and I left the airport and headed to the underground garage where the rentals were. As soon as we left the stairwell, a nuke-meltdown green assailed our eyes. When we got to the row number our car was to be in, we knew which one was going to be ours. Since car color doesn't affect drive-ability (except for having to squint a lot) we laughed it off, got in, and drove to the exit gate.
First words out of the booth attendant's mouth? "Ohhh! What a PRETTY color car!

[pzychobitch]

Did it have obnoxiously large rims? Those cars are all too common in my town lol.

[Merriweather]

My wife and I left the airport and headed to the underground garage where the rentals were. As soon as we left the stairwell, a nuke-meltdown green assailed our eyes. When we got to the row number our car was to be in, we knew which one was going to be ours. Since car color doesn't affect drive-ability (except for having to squint a lot) we laughed it off, got in, and drove to the exit gate.
First words out of the booth attendant's mouth? "Ohhh! What a PRETTY color car!

Whe spent a couple of weeks in spain once, and rented a car one weekend to do some sightseeing. I've no idea the make or model, but it was small, and chunky, and done not in just one colour, but at least three, all primary colours. It really looked like something a kindergartner would draw. We referred to it as the crayola car.

[greek_jester]

When someone deliberately paints a car in a weird colour, it's usually because:

1) They need the help finding it in a large car-park;
2) They're hoping it will put people off nicking it;
3) They're colour-blind & the paint was on sale;
4) They have very strange taste.

I can tell you from experience that no. 2 will never happen. We once got back to the car from shopping when I was a kid to discover that some lout was sat in the front seat of mum's Cortina (a.k.a. The Deathtrap) trying to hotwire it. This was a surprise because:

a) It was a Cortina;
b) The only thing holding it together was the rust;
c) Only 2 of the 4 doors opened;
d) The back seat wasn't actually attached to anything else;
e) It had the classic wire coat-hanger aerial (carefully bent into a star);
f) Various bits inside were repaired with duct-tape, so it obviously wasn't in very good health.

People really will steal anything.

[Gizmo]

We have a few cars around here that are painted with that colour change/lenticular type stuff. So they go from ucky green all the way to ucky purple depending on how the light is hitting each part of the car.

[Ryooshi]

When someone deliberately paints a car in a weird colour, it's usually because:

1) They need the help finding it in a large car-park.

this is why my car is forest green. They told me colours other than the reds, silvers, blacks and such would be a hard resell, but I hate getting lost in parking lots. Especially when the car I chose was so popular they we're everywhere.

I'm sure I could have found a car less popular, but I'd written one off a few years before and knew that if it happened again I would walk away from it. For safety I'm willing to be like everyone else.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

We have a few cars around here that are painted with that colour change/lenticular type stuff. So they go from ucky green all the way to ucky purple depending on how the light is hitting each part of the car.

We have a really pretty Dodge Magnum that has that kind of paint on it. On that kind of vehicle, that works.

And of course we have what my Mom calls the "loose easter eggs." These are the older cars that folks have taken and attempted to pimp out and decided on such bright colors that they practically blind the passersby.

But if you get up on some of these cars really close you can see the paint peeling off. One neighbor we had drove an older Chevrolet Caprice (I'd guess 1980 something) that was bright orange with the Crush soft drink logo on the side. He also had his crotch rocket the same theme.

But if you got up close enough to his car . . . one side mirror was barely hanging on and you could see rust underneath where the paint was peeling off. You could also see this around the underside of the car as well. It was really pathetic.

Jut wish I had all that money that he wasted on that crappy paint job 'cause around here they're not cheap. According to my Mom, she was told by a guy who runs a paint shop just below our house that those type paint jobs start in the thousands. Hell the cheapest our guy in Liberty who works on Toyotas said his least expensive paint job was a $1000 and went up from there (we had asked last year when we had the body damage repaired on the Corolla after the Bambi incident how much a full paint job would be.)

I've also seen a bright emerald green Malibu (looked like a 2000something model) with the same color rims. There's also a bright orange early 1970's Impala 2 door with a white top and jacked up about 3 or 4 feet from the ground that almost caused my Mom to fall out of her rocking chair a couple of weeks ago. It looked that comical.

[Food Lady]

We have a few cars around here that are painted with that colour change/lenticular type stuff. So they go from ucky green all the way to ucky purple depending on how the light is hitting each part of the car.

I actually really like that color; it's one of my favorites. I want my car to be metallic orange; it's white. Booooring. Actually, white is very common here. Where it snows. That doesn't make sense.

[PepperElf]

colours other than the reds, silvers, blacks and such would be a hard resell

only to people who care about that.

[Kristev]

At least no one has reported a car that resembles the Batmobile.