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blakep82

posted on 9/4/08 at 04:53 PM Reply With Quote
is purple a girls colour?

i quite fancy painting my chassis purple, with my axle and suspention bars being flourescent orange. i know, sounds grim, but would actually look quite good i think

but is purple wrong?

thinking some kind of candy blue with possibly silver for the body. might be too many different non matching colours though...





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dave1888

posted on 9/4/08 at 04:55 PM Reply With Quote
Nothing wrong with purple and flourescent orange ya big puff
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blakep82

posted on 9/4/08 at 04:57 PM Reply With Quote
oi! answer the question!





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zilspeed

posted on 9/4/08 at 04:58 PM Reply With Quote
I voted no, but having said that, too many lurid colours in the one place at the one time equals a drift car IMHO.

I do remember there used to be a car I saw regularly in the 80s - one of my favourites, a Vision sports racing car.
Anyway, this had a green round tube chassis, black bodywork and compomotive turbo split rims with green centres. This probably sounds horrible, but in the flesh it was spectacular.

Like this only with green bits.



[Edited on 9/4/08 by zilspeed]

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blakep82

posted on 9/4/08 at 05:02 PM Reply With Quote
the chassis' not really seen on my car anyway, only if you were to look inside or i took all the body off

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eznfrank

posted on 9/4/08 at 05:03 PM Reply With Quote
Which car is it for?? If it's for a pick up I doubt you'll see most of it??
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blakep82

posted on 9/4/08 at 05:04 PM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by eznfrank
Which car is it for?? If it's for a pick up I doubt you'll see most of it??


yep, for the truck





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zilspeed

posted on 9/4/08 at 05:04 PM Reply With Quote
Not the point though is it.

First event you go to, all of the fellow anoraks will be all over every inch of the car. No doubt someone will be like, "Dude, your car has like a purple chassis"






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neilj37

posted on 9/4/08 at 05:41 PM Reply With Quote
i suppose it depends on whether it is purple or mauve then it is defo a girls colour
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Miks15

posted on 9/4/08 at 05:44 PM Reply With Quote
ye like neil said! depends on the shade of purple, some purple look realli good if matched with the right colours but then u could also have a realli light shade or purple that just looks wrong and girly! get the colour right and it will look good
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blakep82

posted on 9/4/08 at 05:46 PM Reply With Quote
god, definitely not mauve lol
though i guess it is a fine line between them. wouldn't want to fall the wrong side of it...





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blakep82

posted on 9/4/08 at 05:48 PM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by Miks15
ye like neil said! depends on the shade of purple, some purple look realli good if matched with the right colours but then u could also have a realli light shade or purple that just looks wrong and girly! get the colour right and it will look good


i like it! can you think of any production cars with a good shade. quite fancy getting some (probably just from halfords tomorrow) to have a shot at spraying. I've got a back wing in a reasonable state to practise on





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Miks15

posted on 9/4/08 at 05:55 PM Reply With Quote
quick search came up with this


should look good as its quite a dark shade of purple and at some angles you cant even tell its purple! what do you think?

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MikeR

posted on 9/4/08 at 05:56 PM Reply With Quote
look for BMC black tulip. Its a very dark purple (or it was on my 1973 mini 1000). Loved the colour, very different and was a standard colour in its day.
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Mr Whippy

posted on 9/4/08 at 06:04 PM Reply With Quote
one of my all time fave hot rods was candy purple, mind boggling it was with a v12 jag engine

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tks

posted on 9/4/08 at 06:09 PM Reply With Quote
MENS COLORS

1) Black
2) RED
3) Yellow
4) Brown
5) (D)Green
6) Orange

IMHO atleast..





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iank

posted on 9/4/08 at 06:11 PM Reply With Quote
Ooooh! fancy a nice lavender chassis Sir!!! Ooooh!





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Paul TigerB6

posted on 9/4/08 at 06:20 PM Reply With Quote
this has got a purple chassis

Tiger B6

Just dont get a helmet to match if you do go for that colour!!!

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kb58

posted on 9/4/08 at 06:21 PM Reply With Quote
I say paint it whatever color you like! What's the point of stranger's dictating what your preferences?

Then again when selling it, color becomes more of an issue.





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blakep82

posted on 9/4/08 at 06:27 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Paul TigerB6
this has got a purple chassis

Tiger B6

Just dont get a helmet to match if you do go for that colour!!!


ha ha, thats actually the kind of purple i was thinking!

you can just see the chassis in the photo, but its the same as the background on that page





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blakep82

posted on 9/4/08 at 06:28 PM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by kb58
I say paint it whatever color you like! What's the point of stranger's dictating what your preferences?

Then again when selling it, color becomes more of an issue.


i'm not saying anyone is to dictate my preferences, i just don't want to get an undeserved reputation i see nothing wrong with purple, i even have a purple shirt just wanted opinions





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johnston

posted on 9/4/08 at 06:46 PM Reply With Quote
Purple well cool in my books. A fella i worked with done his bike frame in "dairy milk" purple it looked rather well..
(far better than the lady pink purple powder coaters done 1st time round)

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procomp

posted on 9/4/08 at 06:47 PM Reply With Quote
Hi a bit off research will show that ST motorsport had all their latter cars done in a purple colour not sure if the chassis was also purple but i have a feeling it was.

Just found a pic and it shows the chassis/rollcage in purple also. A bit of searching should show some pics off chassis ect. I think there is someone on here building one of the last phoenixs from Ian in the same purple IRC.

Even the trailer was done in purple.

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mookaloid

posted on 9/4/08 at 06:49 PM Reply With Quote
Err yes girly I'm afraid - too many blokes round here in touch with their feminine sides I reckon judging from the voting

However it's your car paint it whatever colour you want - pink if you like





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mookaloid

posted on 9/4/08 at 06:50 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by procomp
Hi a bit off research will show that ST motorsport had all their latter cars done in a purple colour not sure if the chassis was also purple but i have a feeling it was.

Just found a pic and it shows the chassis/rollcage in purple also. A bit of searching should show some pics off chassis ect. I think there is someone on here building one of the last phoenixs from Ian in the same purple IRC.

Even the trailer was done in purple.

Cheers Matt


That looks like Lilac to me





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