Let's go green!! (Not some eco thing, but fun with colors)

In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :

Life's too short to paint your car a color that *doesn't* make your pants tight. 

I once saw the Maserati Trofeo green in person, and pictures REALLY don't do it justice.

I may be the first person in history to say this, but I always wanted to paint a car like that KIA

cyow5 said:

Are you looking for safety? If so, my wager is that color is extremely ineffective. The only study I have found was 10 or 15 years old, and I suspect that cell phone use has ticked up significantly since then. The problem with staring at your phone while driving is that the color of the car you hit is totally irrelevant. Color was already a very poor correlation with safety (barring colors that blended into the pavement), but I imagine that correlation has gotten even worse in the last ten years. 

I thought painting my RX-7 bright blue would prevent people changing lanes into me, but nope, still gotta drive extra defensively.

I think it's because drivers in SUVs and trucks looking at their hood level and not seeing what they're about to run over. A grocery store near me has big rocks on the curbs in the parking lot that I've seen a couple of SUVs high center themselves on because aren't looking the ground their covering.

That Kia colour reminds me of this streamliner MG = with only 1.5 liters it made 254 mph.

Both my Elises were technically green. Lotus Racing Metallic Green on the S2 and Scandal Green on the S1.

Keeping the green in the family, my Locost and my sons Honda. Del Sol in Samba Green, and Lotus 7 (Replica) in Tahitian Green Satin from DipYourCar.

In reply to jaf :

Threadjack-ish; what was it like spraying the Dip Your Car stuff on your 7?  Would you recommend it for someone wanting an easy DIY "paint job" for a project?  The car looks good in the picture you shared.

In reply to pres589 (djronnebaum) :

Yes, 100% recommend. As with any paint if you purchase a complete system (cleaners, solvents, primers, topcoats, clear, gun, equipment) it's hard to go wrong. My only complaints are make sure you insert the hose into the turbine super tight, mine blew off and squirted a stream of paint instead of spraying it. Quick solvent wipe and all good. Second is if you want gloss, get it. I sprayed satin because everyone said gloss is for the more advanced sprayer. Satin looks good but gloss would be better.

I see we're four pages in, and I honestly didn't read the whole thread, but I did read the first page and curiously saw no mention of it.  While I am not superstitious. I have never and will never own a green car.  Call it a family tradition.  I believe I first heard about green cars being bad luck from my grandfather about 60 years ago.  My curiosity piqued by this thread, I briefly researched the matter.  It seems it was quite a popular notion up through the 1950's but has become far less a thing in the decades since.   Nothing to it, I'm sure.  But why risk it? 

https://www.speedwaymotors.com/the-toolbox/are-green-racecars-bad-luck/105135 

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/green-cars-unlucky/

https://jalopnik.com/how-the-color-green-became-a-deadly-bad-luck-superstiti-1763008917

In reply to 1988RedT2 :

Sometimes green cars pull through, Le Mans winners:

GameboyRMH said:

Aston-Martin Podium Green (6332)

For Aston Martin colors, I've always loved California Sage

1988RedT2 said:

I see we're four pages in, and I honestly didn't read the whole thread, but I did read the first page and curiously saw no mention of it.  While I am not superstitious. I have never and will never own a green car.  Call it a family tradition.  I believe I first heard about green cars being bad luck from my grandfather about 60 years ago.  My curiosity piqued by this thread, I briefly researched the matter.  It seems it was quite a popular notion up through the 1950's but has become far less a thing in the decades since.   Nothing to it, I'm sure.  But why risk it? 

https://www.speedwaymotors.com/the-toolbox/are-green-racecars-bad-luck/105135 

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/green-cars-unlucky/

https://jalopnik.com/how-the-color-green-became-a-deadly-bad-luck-superstiti-1763008917

 

To bad you didn't grow up Korean as they consider green good luck.

the olive green on my truck is superb:

it really sparkles in the sun

*file photos

In reply to 1988RedT2 :

Never heard that for cars, and some of my favorites have been green. 
Was always a thing in the biker lifestyle smoke, before HD told the world they preferred RUBs and their checkbooks, to their faithful. Lots of green ones from the factory since then (that's about the time the fairy bell became a thing, as well. 
Jap bikes have never seemed to care... some AWESOME green machines from '60s on!

I've probably said this before in a "what color?" thread: Cayman Green Metallic, as found on so many 90s Fords, is a pretty neat color. If I wanted to go teal, that's what I'd pick.

In reply to buzzboy :

Just passing through to make sure Forest Sevice Green was mentioned.

Glad to see it has.