Cars!

When I go shopping for a car silver isn't even on the list and green is at the bottom of it. When silver cars start to age or get damaged, any repairs to the bodywork always looks a complete mess, the paint never seems to match up properly. Green cars because I won't buy anything green, no I'm not superstitious, but the colour has 'followed' me all my life. The strange thing is if I go into a shop and ask for something that is produced in all colours I'm nearly always offered the green one first and it drives me nuts!

 

Oh, I thought you were just dreaming FC. Well, it's a nice looking motor, rather posh for a commoner like me of course. I was thinking it would slick in black (tough a begger to keep clean).

The silver colour and visibility thing ... I think most of the neutral metallicy colour cars are the least visible, red and white the most stand out colours on the road. But I'm supposing with DRLs pretty much standard these days, does it count for much? I'm from the school of low beams on at all times day or night (my Scandi blood and throw back to a country I used to live in). What type of Audi is that?

GG

 

I don't think it makes a lot of difference what colour you have FC. If you are driving under trees on a dull day a darker colour will disappear into the gloom. I think choice of colour is more likely to be down to practicality or just colour preference.

 

Don't know if you saw The Bridge on TV - Scandi crime drama, top telly. Well this was one of the detective's cars ... oooh how I drooled ....... now that is something a bit special.

 

As you say, top TV

Then you clearly never had the delight of driving an early eighties 3.3 turbo model. With turbo lag of truly epic proportions it meant that the power delivery was far from a nice smooth curve - it was more like pop, bang, fart and then lighting the afterburners! To drive one fast across country took gonads the size of Jupiter That is without mentioning the understeer/snap oversteer handling! Quite simple one of the best laughs it was ever possible to have on four wheels. Did I mentioned the brakes that faded to nothing after a handful of hard uses?

 

A few of my cars from the past.



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I used to love anything with speed. These days its what is easy to get in and out of for the wife and what we can load in the back easily at the garden center ! Ooooo Errr

 

Nice wheels Charlie!

Other half and I have owned about twenty five different cars down the years but have only got pictures of a few.

 

Aww never mind FC, though do you think it is quite you? I imagined you going for something rather different.

@longk - speaking of marvellous TV are you watching 1864? What think you?

GG

 

Silver is great if you are lazy when it comes to washing it
It doesn't show the dirt as much
My last 4 cars have been silver/silver grey.
Maybe white is popular in Spain because it reflects the heat??

 

I must admit to having owned well over a hundred cars over forty years driving.
Grew up on fast Fords like Capri 3.0 and 2.8 RS Turbo escorts and a beautiful black RS 500 Sierra Cosworth. Many Jaguars a few TVRs and so many daft cars..
Sad thing is I took hardly any pictures. Mm mm

I've been a true petrol head since I was a wee boy and still love cars just as much today as when I was lad..

 

A bit 2 fast 2 furious,only pic to hand going to a ramp to change the gearbox

the wifes