Ford Colours....Wow.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by In Focus

Bionic blue?

https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/det...-6604977/?Cr=1

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

[roddy1960]

I'm intrigued now on one of the classic XR colours being GT Gold . There was one here for a fair while well into the 1970's I think .

Sprintey ...This was my BA Fairmont Ghia ..Mint Silver or Ice Mint Silver..I always called it the former but you could be right .

ba fairmont 2 by Rodney McGiveron, on Flickr and

fairmont interior by Rodney McGiveron, on Flickr..

Sometimes I wish I had of persevered with her ..

[roddy1960]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

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

Nice...very nice .

[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 .

[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 ?

[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 .

[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,

[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.

[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.

[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.

[CJR09]

So many great colours to choose from

Lime glaze

Cosmic blue

Silver fox

Kelly green

Onyx

[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..........

[roddy1960]

Originally Posted by BlueBear

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,

just got home from exercising the mutts...will check out the bus story after tea..thanks so much ..

[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....

[ford71V8]

Green
Green is nice

[roddy1960]

Originally Posted by BlueBear

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,

WELL DONE INDEED...Gee you've had a real go on the beautiful bus ..She's going to be a cracker by the time you're finished . Had a good old scroll via your Facebook and can see she's in great hands .

There's a bloke here a bit like you . His bus is a Clipper and he bought mostly restored but has added a lot more to that and he's taken her , and his missus , to various places on mainland Australia already . She's a bit of a celebrity at our annual Car , Bus and Bike Show every June ..Except this year of course unfortunately due to an insidious little virus..

..Here's a clip of last years show done by a local car filmer . You'll see a snippet of Russel's 1950 I think former Ansett Clipper at about six and a half minutes as the presenter is talking to a XY GT owner is also a nice jigger..There were only two buses there last year but sometimes there's a nice few . Russel's is the blue one ..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKhhxnMSV_A&t=14s .. Here's a bit more about him in the local newspaper from a while back . Geez he loves his Clipper...https://www.examiner.com.au/story/24...ch-wheel-nuts/ ...thanks again for the Facebook link to your lovely bus .

[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.

[BlueBear]

Originally Posted by roddy1960

WELL DONE INDEED...Gee you've had a real go on the beautiful bus ..She's going to be a cracker by the time you're finished . Had a good old scroll via your Facebook and can see she's in great hands .

There's a bloke here a bit like you . His bus is a Clipper and he bought mostly restored but has added a lot more to that and he's taken her , and his missus , to various places on mainland Australia already . She's a bit of a celebrity at our annual Car , Bus and Bike Show every June ..Except this year of course unfortunately due to an insidious little virus..

..Here's a clip of last years show done by a local car filmer . You'll see a snippet of Russel's 1950 I think former Ansett Clipper at about six and a half minutes as the presenter is talking to a XY GT owner is also a nice jigger..There were only two buses there last year but sometimes there's a nice few . Russel's is the blue one ..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKhhxnMSV_A&t=14s .. Here's a bit more about him in the local newspaper from a while back . Geez he loves his Clipper...https://www.examiner.com.au/story/24...ch-wheel-nuts/ ...thanks again for the Facebook link to your lovely bus .

Thanx Roddy, enjoying the journey with the bus, I am extremely fortunate to have a wife that loves working with me on it.

Love the old Clipper's, parked up next to one in a caravan park in Victoria one night, beautiful green one, had a chat with them. Love the old jimmy V6's singing away too.

Thanx for the links and info.

Cheers,

[98TLS]

Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

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

Name these two.

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FG i think is Dash Green? BF i thought at first was Phantom but not dark enough so will go with what it says when i quoted your post and say Vibe

[roddy1960]

Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

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

Name these two.

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Oh My God...the second image (GT-P)....I'm in love . That's incredible . Would love to see one in real life . Official colour names of either , don't really know . But the GT...She could live in my shed anytime...

Another question without notice guys .

Has the colour of a car ever made you think twice about buying it or being a deciding factor why you bought it . ?



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[98TLS]

Originally Posted by roddy1960

Oh My God...the second image (GT-P)....I'm in love . That's incredible . Would love to see one in real life . Official colour names of either , don't really know . But the GT...She could live in my shed anytime...

Another question without notice guys .

Has the colour of a car ever made you think twice about buying it or being a deciding factor why you bought it . ?



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Different light but pretty sure the green is the same as mates FG in this pic.

And yep when i came across the P i had never seen one in Blue Pearl,still havent seen another in the flesh so a deciding factor it was.

[Giant Cranium]

Originally Posted by 98TLS

Different light but pretty sure the green is the same as mates FG in this pic.
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And yep when i came across the P i had never seen one in Blue Pearl,still havent seen another in the flesh so a deciding factor it was.
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its not the same, that green on your mates is dash, the one on the gap is swift and is much darker

[BlueBear]

Originally Posted by roddy1960

Has the colour of a car ever made you think twice about buying it or being a deciding factor why you bought it . ?

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Yep, I would never buy a black car, won't even consider looking at one.
The only time they look good is when totally clean and polished, and coming from QLD, their too damn hot.
Just my opinion mind you.

Cheers,

[BlueBear]

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



Cheers,

[290GTP]

Mercury Silver.

[98TLS]

Originally Posted by Giant Cranium

its not the same, that green on your mates is dash, the one on the gap is swift and is much darker

Good work,thought it was just the pic/light.