ivangt6
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Help me! I like poo brown carsivangt6
@ivangt6
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Dec 14, 2018 22:54:35 GMT
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I was being dragged around one of these out of town retail parks the other day. It was moribund. Drizzly, grey, dull... And then this scruffy brown avenger pulls up in the car park. I don't know if this is what middle age is but christ it looked good! Is brown acceptable now? I'm blaming Dirty Harry for this!    Also I'm sure more new cars are brown all of a sudden  Is it just me or are there any other perverts out there? |
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1979 Mini 1000
1972 Triumph GT6
2007 VW Golf GTi
1979 VW T25 Leisuredrive
1988 Range Rover Vogue SE
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gezzard
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Dec 14, 2018 23:12:10 GMT
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I do like a Rover P6 in diarrhoea brown with a matching vinyl roof.
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Dec 14, 2018 23:29:18 GMT
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I for one hate a Brown car. Who goes into a car showroom when it's new, looks through the brochure at the amazing palette of pretty colours such as jade greens, sapphire blues, ruby reds etc and says "Yes please, I'd like the one that matches my poop!"
I just don't get the love for the colour.
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Dec 14, 2018 23:34:55 GMT
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BL Russet Brown is the brownest thing i can think of.  |
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Dec 14, 2018 23:36:03 GMT
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British Leyland had a penchant for particularly vile colours in the 70's / 80's including a full palette of browns from sickly neonate's first nappy change through to cirrhotic Guinness drinker's yule log.
Brown is a colour that is almost entirely without merit as automotive pigment!
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Never sure how to describe it - it's not brown but more nappy napalm  |
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Ignosce mihi cacare necesse est
2012 Fiat Qubo
Sadly currently living a retroless life
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Brown is a marmite colour you either love or hate it - but it's on it's way back in just about all the new car manufactures have a metallic brown available in their colour range and going back to the 70's all those lovely exotic names that the manufactures gave the brown colour: Ford - Tawney Brown Metallic Rover - Tabaco Leaf BLMC - Russet Brown Its even suitable for Jowetts   |
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Last Edit: Dec 15, 2018 8:20:10 GMT by Deleted
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retrolegends
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Winging it.....Since 1971.
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1974 Hillman Avenger 1500DL1992 Volvo 240SE1975 Datsun Cherry 100a flying custard1965 Hillman SuperMinx Rock N Roller1974 Austin Allegrat Mk1 1.3SDL1980 Austin Allegro Mk3 1.3L1982 Austin Allegro Mk3 on banded steels2003 Saab 9-3 Convertible 220bhp TurboNutter1966 Morris Minor 1000 (Doris) 2019 Abarth 595C Turismo (not retro but awesome fun) www.facebook.com/DatsunCherry100a |
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mikec
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1914 Saxon A; 1931 Austin 7; 1938 Talbot Ten; 1953 Lancia Appia; 1967 Singer Chamois
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v8ian
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in the 80s, I had a 2 door Corsair painted Rover Mexico Brown, with an BL Old English white Roof, slammed on the floor with genuine 6" lotus SE steels
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Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style.
Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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Dec 15, 2018 10:06:11 GMT
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The brown stag is lovely
Back in the 80s I had a mate who hated his stag in brown and had it repainted in damask red
Originality on stags is always better I think
And brown is back in nowadays
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1999 Jaguar s type
1993 ford escort
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ivangt6
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Help me! I like poo brown carsivangt6
@ivangt6
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Dec 15, 2018 10:33:59 GMT
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in the 80s, I had a 2 door Corsair painted Rover Mexico Brown, with an BL Old English white Roof, slammed on the floor with genuine 6" lotus SE steels That sounds epic! Any surviving pics? |
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1979 Mini 1000
1972 Triumph GT6
2007 VW Golf GTi
1979 VW T25 Leisuredrive
1988 Range Rover Vogue SE
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Dec 15, 2018 10:35:55 GMT
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I really like that! I could daily a 3 door alegro estate on rostyles in russet brown in a heartbeat. |
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Its not broken, its resting!
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ivangt6
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Help me! I like poo brown carsivangt6
@ivangt6
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Dec 15, 2018 10:45:56 GMT
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Mixed thoughts then. Definitely a marmite colour, depending on how thin you spread your marmite... I have to admit I've always hated brown cars up until my epiphany the other day. I'm noticing them everywhere now though I think this audi colour would look great on a classic  Definitely works on a range rover  At the end of the day you've got to ask yourself one question. Do you like brown? Well do you, Punk?  |
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Last Edit: Dec 15, 2018 10:46:33 GMT by ivangt6
1979 Mini 1000
1972 Triumph GT6
2007 VW Golf GTi
1979 VW T25 Leisuredrive
1988 Range Rover Vogue SE
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v8ian
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Dec 15, 2018 10:52:40 GMT
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in the 80s, I had a 2 door Corsair painted Rover Mexico Brown, with an BL Old English white Roof, slammed on the floor with genuine 6" lotus SE steels That sounds epic! Any surviving pics? No, Sorry, not that I have ever found, it was a quick car too, genuine Ian Walker 1760 pre Flow, on Webbers, Google Ian Walker, one of the Great forgotten Engine builders. |
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Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style.
Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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Dec 15, 2018 10:56:04 GMT
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Dec 15, 2018 10:56:30 GMT
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My mk3 GT from eight years ago Nice colour , hated the fat thing though !  |
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1999 Jaguar s type
1993 ford escort
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mikec
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Dec 15, 2018 11:48:28 GMT
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Back in the 1920s 'Mole' was the default colour for the Humber range:  |
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1914 Saxon A; 1931 Austin 7; 1938 Talbot Ten; 1953 Lancia Appia; 1967 Singer Chamois
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Dec 15, 2018 21:21:53 GMT
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ok , i'm biased but i love a brown car. when 17 i learned to drive in (among many many other things) my granddads '72 3500 P6 in mexico brown. so brown will always be a happy colour to me!
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating
'80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip
'97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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vader
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Dec 15, 2018 21:39:44 GMT
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Stag browns are Russet (as pictured above) Maple and Sienna. Maple and Sienna aren’t too bad to be honest especially with tan interior.
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Triumph Stag
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