'51 Lanchester LD10, '80 Austin Princess, '88 Austin Maestro

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I like your posts Vulgalour and I'm glad your back.

Thinking colours again, because there's not much else I can do with the Princess at the moment.  I do keep coming back to purple, but I can't shift the desire to also own a pink car one day.  There are some pinks I really like, but they're not the 'Powered By Fairydust' type of colours which I think would look wrong on the Princess.

The pinks I really like have a grey-ish look to them, sometimes verging on lilac or lavender.  The first choice would be the superb Jaguar Heather Pink as seen on this little Lotus.



While Heather Pink sits well on a large car, it sits best on one with some curves which is not something the Princess is blessed with.  I'm concerned that Heather Pink might make the Princess look like it's made out of poorly made fibreglass.  What can help here is a bit of sparkle to really pull out the sharp edges of a body design, which leads me neatly on to Cadillac's Heather which sits very nicely in the pink-lavender-grey triangle and goes excellently with a splash of chrome.








In the same vein, Ford's Amethyst Pink would work nicely and this is a colour I've admired for looking exactly like nail polish in person.  There's enough similarity in the body shapes on the Escort for me to think it would work, just, and it definitely looks good with a black interior and silver wheels as demonstrated below.




This is just me thinking out loud really.  Feel free to suggest your own pinks or to disagree with me.  We all know it's going to take me YEARS to get to the painting stage at this rate.

Vote 2 for no pink. I liked the purple you tried a while back... stick with it.

PHEW, you're still here...!!!!!

I'd have to say no with regards to the pink paintwork... I just think it'll be too 'delicate' for the wedge-tastic Princess. The purple you'd set your heart on before would look much better and more in keeping with the car. Please stick with purple!!!

sciclone
Orchid Metallic is maybe a bit too pink for this application, though it's a great colour and I do really like it.


Your Holden suggestion did bring me to a colour I really do like, though it's more purple than pink which is Ultra Violet.  Omnomnom.


doobie
This one?  It's not too disimilar to the Aconite purple I keep coming back to.  There is a purple-grey colour that you see on a Japanese mini-box type car but I can't remember what it's called and can't find an example of it, that could be the one you mean.

^^^ Very true sir... Some can be 'SHOCKING'...!!! I do mean shocking in a good way of course...!

compromise of pink and purple, ultra rare GM silk violet

Had to look that special Mini up, I'd say it's a bit on the brown side for what I'm after and does put me in mind of the better Reynard metallic that some Princesses did come in originally.


I like the 35th anniversary Mini colour better.



but I like darrenh's suggestion of Silk Violet better yet.  Certainly lots of food for thought here so far and I've learned about some new colours I like that I didn't know about before.

Yes... yes it is.

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Okay, so we're probably back to purple again then. Black and purple you can't really go wrong with can you?