Basalt Black (origin)

[glenn mcmenamin]

Can any of you die hard Porschaphiles out there tell me where the name came from ???

Reason i ask, i have just completed a Mountain bike tour of the Rockies, and one
of the days, we cycled through a very nice town called Basalt, on the way to Aspen.

near this town, the tracks were a very dark almost volcanic black, which kind of made me put 2+2 together.....
.....and prob come up with 5 ??????

can anyone clarify ???


Cheers

G.

[anonymous-user]

glenn mcmenamin said:

almost volcanic black

basalt IS black volcanic rock

[nem351s]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basalt

Wikipedia is good for this sort of thing.

[slippydiff]

Found on the moon apparently too.

[triple7]

Basalt is as has been pointed out is cooled lava or volcanic rock.

It is by its very nature black with metals within, which have similarites to the metallic fleck you see in the Porsche paint, hence I guess the name.

What about 'Guards Red'? Anyone?

G

[damianc4s]

triple7 said:

Basalt is as has been pointed out is cooled lava or volcanic rock.

It is by its very nature black with metals within, which have similarites to the metallic fleck you see in the Porsche paint, hence I guess the name.

What about 'Guards Red'? Anyone?

G

Look at the jackets on the guards at Buckingham Palace

[cyberface]

OK what about 'speed yellow' then? I thought speed was white?

[ChrisD]

I always assumed guard's red (or "Indischrot" - indian red) had something to do with the uniform of some british army regiment?
Chris

[hugoagogo]

'Indian Red' is a natural pigment used in oil paints etc, that originally came from India

it'd be called Guard's Red (not officially though i think) in the UK because, as said, of the colours of British Guards regiments uniforms

[rumplestiltskin]

Vesuvius grey ?

Thought Vesuvius was a volcano.....?

R.

[hugoagogo]

rumplestiltskin said:

Vesuvius grey ?

Thought Vesuvius was a volcano.....?

R.

the ash?