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

[RealUnimportant]

I once had a classic car in lovely pillar-box red; the guy who bought it from me resprayed it in what I think is the colour you're talking about - Kawasaki green. It looked foul & I regretted letting him buy it every time I saw it

[HawaiianShirts]

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;

4) They have very strange taste.

That describes me and Mrs. Shirts quite well and accurately explains our choice in car color. I've often been mistaken for a taxi in Portland, Oregon. We had it repainted to a bright green partly for parking lot visibility, for covering up the patches where the original paint was peeling away, for a few laughs, and for distinguishing it from the other four cars in our town of the same make, model, and teal-ish color.

Still, I have seen a few car paint jobs that make me go . I saw one little sports car that was all pink with purple racing stripes. I also saw a beat-up old pickup that appeared to have been painted with the leftovers of a dozen mismatched spray paint cans.

[protege]

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.)

Anyone can paint a car with a few cheap spray cans or even by renting the equipment. But, it's the preparation that makes the difference between "what a piece of shit!" and "holy crap!" Paint and panels also add up. So can welding and other repairs.

I went through all of this insanity with the MG a few years back. That ran about five grand Expensive, but you have to remember that the entire car, including the engine bay, inside the doors, etc. was done, and the paint was custom mixed. Also, there was some rust and accident damage (some idiot in a truck backed into it about 30 years ago) that had to be dealt with. Lastly, the car had to be steam-cleaned, to remove 30-odd years of crap in the engine bay. Expensive, but well worth it, IMHO

That's why I can't understand some car owners. They clearly want their vehicles to look and run good...but don't seem to want to either pay for the work, or take the time to do it right. Then they get upset when someone calls their ride a "piece of shit." Hey, styling is subjective. Build quality is not

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.

Sounds like a "donk." I've never understood this fad either. If you're going to add larger wheels and tires, 'tub' (enlarge) the wheel wells. Jacking up your car to fit 22-inch rims only makes you look like a tool. Plus, it screws up the handling. What's the point in fixing up a car...if it handles like an overladen hippo in the corners?

[Jay 2K Winger]

Sounds like a "donk."

...Donk? You can't see this bit, ha!

[aqutalion]

There's a car I see parked at the local McD's a lot that's lime-green on top and sparkly royal blue on the bottom, with the words "Bottom Boy" in a fancy font.
I *really* want to know if he meant what the dirty part of mind keeps assuming...

[wolfie]

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.

Sounds almost like the Harlequin Edition VW Golf, but according to Wikipedia those were only offered in the North American market, so it's unlikely your wife would have been able to rent one in Spain.

[blas]

I have seen more than my fair share of vehicles that had no business being "jacked up", and having much larger wheels put on them. Neons being one of them. Pickup trucks being another. I've seen smaller end pickup trucks lifted nearly a foot or more, with much larger tires on it to make it look like a "monster truck".

Just take a look at some of the people driving those things.