E-Type S.1 Coupe - What Colour To Repaint Her ?
Discussion
Series 1 FHC needs a repaint, a very orig California car ,superb straight body but i dont like CARMEN RED or Black Interior Trim .
My Interior Colour Choice is Red, Black is too gloomy , Red opens it out, makes it seem bigger.
After watching that Great film "Danger Diabolik" with its exellent E-Type footage numerous times, i fancy Black. Will be "fairly" easy to paint the bulkhead , Frames etc Black as well.
My other Fave Colour is Opalescent Silver Blue,( probably better on a Roadster, or Opal Dark Blue, dark Colours really show the Lovely E shape/Curves . What do you think ? Car will reluctantly be sold eventually, so i dont want a colour that will be hard to shift !!
My Interior Colour Choice is Red, Black is too gloomy , Red opens it out, makes it seem bigger.
After watching that Great film "Danger Diabolik" with its exellent E-Type footage numerous times, i fancy Black. Will be "fairly" easy to paint the bulkhead , Frames etc Black as well.
My other Fave Colour is Opalescent Silver Blue,( probably better on a Roadster, or Opal Dark Blue, dark Colours really show the Lovely E shape/Curves . What do you think ? Car will reluctantly be sold eventually, so i dont want a colour that will be hard to shift !!
Silver blue, but won't look good with red interior. Dark blue is better. This car was originally gunmetal (dark metallic grey) with red interior. Sometimes I regret changing it, but over the years people seem to congregate around it more than other colours, even though she is rather doggy now.
Motown Junk said:
saw a V12 Coupe in 'Heather' which was quite something. Could work with red interior.
Heather was a V12 colour only. Also, it will virtually guarantee that the car will be unsaleable! The interior panels - one never matched the colour of the other inside. Always called the "hairdresser's car". If, as the OP states, this car will be sold then a metallic will be more saleable than a flat colour, and lighter colours seem to sell better than dark. Keep it conservative - the buyers are all middle aged and don't like flash colours.I would go for gunmetal or opalescent light blue, agree with Lowdrag the blue is not so good with a red interior.
My S1 is going to be opalescent blue, luckily that was it's original colour with a dark blue interior.Coincidentally it's red at the moment.
Funny how red seems to be going out of favour.
Heather is probably one of the worst colours for resale, closely followed by primrose yellow (which i like)
My S1 is going to be opalescent blue, luckily that was it's original colour with a dark blue interior.Coincidentally it's red at the moment.
Funny how red seems to be going out of favour.
Heather is probably one of the worst colours for resale, closely followed by primrose yellow (which i like)
Strange, isn't it, how some colours suit some cars and not others. it's like that with golden sand. Would look horrible on an E-type but looks wonderful on the saloons, even the Mk X. Ever seen an S type (modern) or XF in red? Seems completely wrrong to me. Heather was discussed earlier, but the thought popped into my head of a Mk X painted that colour.
Black is great but shows every tiny scratch so sell it fresh out of the paint shop before it marks up. Primrose was another colour that was hard to sell. Gunmetal seems to be coming back into favour these days, but there are a lot of other colours from the swatch of the era, like Sherwood for example. That with sage interior is class. OT, but I have started looking for a used C-class and all that there seems to be are either silver or black metallics. Seems people are sfraid to go for a different colour in case they can't sell it. What a sad world it is becoming.
Black is great but shows every tiny scratch so sell it fresh out of the paint shop before it marks up. Primrose was another colour that was hard to sell. Gunmetal seems to be coming back into favour these days, but there are a lot of other colours from the swatch of the era, like Sherwood for example. That with sage interior is class. OT, but I have started looking for a used C-class and all that there seems to be are either silver or black metallics. Seems people are sfraid to go for a different colour in case they can't sell it. What a sad world it is becoming.lowdrag said:
Strange, isn't it, how some colours suit some cars and not others. it's like that with golden sand. Would look horrible on an E-type but looks wonderful on the saloons, even the Mk X.
Can't say I've seen one in the flesh, but the pictures I've seen of E's in Golden Sand look really nice..... to me. There was one for sale recently that caught my eye glancing thru ads..... S1 4.2 FHC in Golden Sand with that copper colour tan interior (London Tan?).... I thought it looked really nice 
lowdrag said:
Ever seen an S type (modern) or XF in red? Seems completely wrong to me.
Again.... an XF in Radiance or the more recent bright met red look fab to me..... 
lowdrag said:
OT, but I have started looking for a used C-class and all that there seems to be are either silver or black metallics. Seems people are sfraid to go for a different colour in case they can't sell it. What a sad world it is becoming.
Agree with that.
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