10 hours ago, Ryeman said:

I couldn’t imagine a BRG or FRB Ferrari.

Never seen either of those shades, although I have seen them in white, black, straight dark blue, metallic blue, silver, and a yellow called "gaillo (sp?) fly".

Make of my car colours as you will 😂

Way back I seem to recall yellow and white as international racing colours.  For some reason I associated yellow with Germany (were the silver arrows purely Mercedes?) and white with America.

This all predated the (necessary) commercial sponsorship era.

Still one of my favourite colours...Mariner blue

 

 

Volvo also have something similar on offer but a touch lighter; there's something about the flat tone of the blue that I really like: 

 

 

 

 

 

32 minutes ago, KenONeill said:

Never seen either of those shades, although I have seen them in white, black, straight dark blue, metallic blue, silver, and a yellow called "gaillo (sp?) fly".

Oooft, not too shabby though.

 

 

Edited 24 May, 20197 yr by penguin17

11 hours ago, Ryeman said:

I couldn’t imagine a BRG or FRB Ferrari.  For some reason the only colours I can think of are red and yellow ones.

Funny how you (well I do) always picture one colour for a car as that's the one you associate with either the marque or the model, either through marketing or just your own perception/memories. e.g; as soon as I picture an Esprit it just has to be: 

 

 

 

Whereas the next x number of people will immediately picture the white or even metallic bronze from Bond movies. 

 

 

1 hour ago, Russ77 said:

Make of my car colours as you will 😂

 

 

Your car was imported from Dominica?

 

On the psychological front, Boeing uses buff and brown/taupe in the cockpit for it’s calming influence.  Airbus a grey/blue......chill bro.

2 hours ago, Ryeman said:

Way back I seem to recall yellow and white as international racing colours.  For some reason I associated yellow with Germany (were the silver arrows purely Mercedes?) and white with America.

This all predated the (necessary) commercial sponsorship era.

Yellow - Belgium.

White - Germany, before they went to unpainted aluminium to get the Mercedes under the 750kg weight limit, and Auto-Union followed them

 

White with 2 blue stripes - USA

 

White with a red circle on the nose - Japan.

2 hours ago, penguin17 said:

Oooft, not too shabby though.

Cheers; that's genuinely the first Smith I'd seen in BRG.

9 hours ago, Ttaskmaster said:

 

Your car was imported from Dominica?

 

Nah, it was an ex-BP Energy car

Just the flash of a blue Faz with rich leather trim...........that’s IT !

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