Ford Colours....Wow.

[roddy1960]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

That's it! Absolutely mint in the sun out on the road

Nice...very nice .

[roddy1960]

Blue Bear... What a looker is the GS..complete with shaker and the bathurst globes ...beautiful ...What's the plans for the bus also . How far along is that lovely project ?

[BlueBear]

Originally Posted by roddy1960

Blue Bear... What a looker is the GS..complete with shaker and the bathurst globes ...beautiful ...What's the plans for the bus also . How far along is that lovely project ?

It's a beautiful thing isn't it?

The bus is a work in progress, been living in it for 8 years.
Bought it as a motorhome with a nice fit out, but a lot of work needed bodywise and elsewhere.
We have done quite a few mods to it as well.
If your interested the story is here https://www.facebook.com/dstinationunknown/

Fair warning, it's quite long and will take a bit of scrolling to get to the beginning.

Cheers,

[Giant Cranium]

Blueprint is where it’s at for me. Absolutely perfect colour and i dream of a 911 gt3 with pts in this colour

[roddy1960]

Originally Posted by Giant Cranium

Blueprint is where it’s at for me. Absolutely perfect colour and i dream of a 911 gt3 with pts in this colour
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That really pops ...whew .

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by Giant Cranium

Blueprint is where it’s at for me. Absolutely perfect colour and i dream of a 911 gt3 with pts in this colour
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Oldest pub in $ydney around corner Hero of Waterloo.

[hayseed]

Originally Posted by roddy1960

Stuff me... I didn't know there were that bloody many Ford Motor Company have used in the past and still needed to be sought.

It's a Throwback to the days when every large (& small) Company could order a "run" on vehicles an Any colour they Wanted..

For example in Red you could get .
International harvester Red,
Linfox Red
PMG red.
Winfield Cigarette Red. .

& heaps of Other. Otis elevaters ,Rothmans, IBM, Remington Typewriters All had their own colour..

& who could forget that "sickly" Sydney City County Council Greeny/turquoise..

[roddy1960]

Originally Posted by hayseed

It's a Throwback to the days when every large (& small) Company could order a "run" on vehicles an Any colour they Wanted..

For example in Red you could get .
International harvester Red,
Linfox Red
PMG red.
Winfield Cigarette Red. .

& heaps of Other. Otis elevaters ,Rothmans, IBM, Remington Typewriters All had their own colour..

& who could forget that "sickly" Sydney City County Council Greeny/turquoise..

Yep ....I notice a lot of company names in among the colours of the first few runs of GT's too and Gallagher in there too ... Cool ..

What would you all do with this mighty machine if it happened to come ito your possession ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kpEmcuYXak Restore or not ..What a sound she puts out .

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by hayseed

It's a Throwback to the days when every large (& small) Company could order a "run" on vehicles an Any colour they Wanted..

For example in Red you could get .
International harvester Red,
Linfox Red
PMG red.
Winfield Cigarette Red. .

& heaps of Other. Otis elevaters ,Rothmans, IBM, Remington Typewriters All had their own colour..

& who could forget that "sickly" Sydney City County Council Greeny/turquoise..

Brambles red or when it fades Think Pink.... Pink.

[Mechan1k]

Some great colours out there and already mentioned.
B-series and early Territory models had a great range of colours for modern vehicles.

Another mention is Velvet in the FG range. That was classy and not often seen.

[DFB FGXR6]

This is one of the rarer colours during the BF MK II run. Bonus points if you can name it.

[hayseed]

Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

This is one of the rarer colours during the BF MK II run. Bonus points if you can name it.

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baby shyte Brown..........

[DFB FGXR6]

Originally Posted by hayseed

baby shyte Brown..........

Not quite. Colour is called Flair. I have only seen two or three cars in this colour, it was like a orange/bronze/maroon combination not too all tastes. Much like this one..........



This colour is called Wired. I remember reading a post on here many years ago about how the production line workers did in fact call it baby shyte brown.

[DFB FGXR6]

New quiz...........

Name these two.

[roddy1960]

Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

This is one of the rarer colours during the BF MK II run. Bonus points if you can name it.

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That really is an odd one ..Can honestly say I've never seen one that colour . looks like some shade of orange to me but wouldn't know where to start for it's official name that's for sure .

[roddy1960]

Without literally counting every line . It worked out to be 23 sets of colour names and codes per 157mm...There were 60 sets of 23 give or take a slight overlap and a couple left over , and no doubt some that got missed there are approximately 1380 Ford colours not counting the GT colours .

Told you all I was bored . or stupid or both...

I also might have thought my Telstar was called Emperor but now I'm not sure ., something is telling me that this old girl was actually Regency Red .

GEDC0095 by Rodney McGiveron, on Flickr..

OOps....

[CJR09]

So many great colours to choose from

Lime glaze

Cosmic blue

Silver fox

Kelly green

Onyx

[ford71V8]

Green
Green is nice

[BlueBear]

Had this Venom XLS ute for a few years, loved the colour and had it fully optioned



Cheers,

[290GTP]

Mercury Silver.

[Mechan1k]

Originally Posted by 290GTP

Mercury Silver.

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Mercury Silver was the pic of the dark silvers in B-series. Until EGO came along later that followed through in to FG.

Memorable note was Meteorite in AU. Was such a classy charcoal on the XR shapes.

[MercuryT]

Originally Posted by Mechan1k

Mercury Silver was the pic of the dark silvers in B-series. Until EGO came along later that followed through in to FG.

Memorable note was Meteorite in AU. Was such a classy charcoal on the XR shapes.

Agree. Hence my username - nice colour I thought, i upgraded to shinier XR8 18 wheels compared to standard 17s and looked much better imo

[oldel]

The xr6turbo forums have a great colour thread (mainly b series on I guess)
https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/36239-colours/

My ea was I thought champagne beige but it's something else along that bronzey tan metallic (I've forgot now)
the eb was emerald green, the EL was sapphire red, and unfortunately the BA was shockwave.

I really miss colours on the road, ford had some of the best. The last holden I had was a VZ in that olive drab greenish ****. E: martini mica , yuck.

But BMWs had some nice blues and greens in the past, Mazda had some nice ones too. It's too bad most people are going toyota or Korean because they have no clue when it comes to colours.
It's sad that nearly everything is silver, grey, black or white now from most euros, most of what we see on the road is boring these days and that's one thing most people never thought of when ford stopped making falcons here.

[Polyal]

So just when you thought we had something unique, and granted FoA was not near the first company to officially do it I found this;

https://www.gatewayclassiccars.com/H...g-Mystic-Cobra

1996! I feel cheated.

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by Polyal

So just when you thought we had something unique, and granted FoA was not near the first company to officially do it I found this;

https://www.gatewayclassiccars.com/H...g-Mystic-Cobra

1996! I feel cheated.

Why do you think the Ford Australia show cars of the era used those flip paints?

EL XR Sequential etc.

[MercuryT]

I like that BluePrint colour too. Stands out.

But Black is still my go to colour for almost any car unless something really grabs me (plus wheel colour can impact choice etc)

[MercuryT]

Actually went for a drive an hour ago and there was a BA XR Ute on road (going way too fast......i was doing 115 and went past like I was standing still - 160plus).

Then at lights we caught up and had Plazmaman stickers etc so a tuned T Barra. Young bloke and girl in it.

Was a Bright Lime Green colour with white alloys.

Too out there for me and not sure if a Ford standard colour but it stood out (in a good or bad way depending on your taste)

[Charliewool]

GT Gold! The epitome of Ford colours!




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