# What color car would you want if you had a real choice? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 12, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-car-would-you-want-if-you-had-a-real-choice/391889 "2007-02-12T18:07:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-car-would-you-want-if-you-had-a-real-choice/391889/1 "2007-02-12T18:07:03Z")
A lot of the colors I want are not being made on production cars. The hot red-orange of the 64½ Mustang. The funky bright Kelly green called “Anti-establish Mint” of the 70’s. Midnight blue/purple of some Jaguars. But also the two-tones of the fifties sedans (and the three-tone red,white, and black of the 50’s Packard, but not the less effective red-white and pink) And the broad racing stripes of the muscle cars. And the flames of chop-top Cadillac hot rods. And of course the patterned car colors that Michael Keaton used in _Johnny Dangerously_, where he would try to fool the cops in a car chase by pulling off different layers of contact paper to reveal a new car color. And at least one was a children’s wallpaper pattern with little ducks and bunnies. So, tired of white, black and charcoal metallics? You win a custom car with any paint job you want. What’s your choice? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-car-would-you-want-if-you-had-a-real-choice/391889/2 "2007-02-12T21:40:52Z")
Hmm. I would have said royal blue or midnight blue, depending on the car, but plaid is sounding interesting. Black and white plaid with yellow and red thrown in. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-car-would-you-want-if-you-had-a-real-choice/391889/3 "2007-02-12T22:03:10Z")
Okay, do you remember blowpops from when you were a kid? Picture a cherry one, that you’d half finished. I want a car that color red. I guess you’d call it a dark metallic red, since it’s definitely not a flat paint color. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-car-would-you-want-if-you-had-a-real-choice/391889/4 "2007-02-12T22:04:08Z")
I want a two-toned sedan in two shades of green. Bright kelly green and maybe bright grass green. Something like that. I also want a bright green oven and refrigerator. ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-car-would-you-want-if-you-had-a-real-choice/391889/5 "2007-02-12T22:20:48Z")
Funny enough, all of my cars have always been red, not because I particularly _like_ red cars, but because I could afford them. I always said if I could pick the color it would be green. My current car was given to me by a stranger (well, I knew him kind of, long story, not going into it), and it is green. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-car-would-you-want-if-you-had-a-real-choice/391889/6 "2007-02-12T22:30:23Z")
There’s this late 60s/early 70s green that I love, although it’s not quite the bright kelly green the OP described. It’s not so bright, more like a puke green, I suppose. Ah, I see it’s called “Mist Green” if you look up a '72 Plymouth on [this site](http://www.tcpglobal.com/autocolorlibrary/). ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-car-would-you-want-if-you-had-a-real-choice/391889/7 "2007-02-13T03:09:02Z")
Bright yellow, which doesn’t seem to come on very many cars at all. Limiting colour choices to eight (five of which are grey) was a terrible decision by car companies. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-car-would-you-want-if-you-had-a-real-choice/391889/8 "2007-02-13T03:11:51Z")
I have seen cars roughly this color. I want an extremely deep midnight blue with nothing flat about the paint at all. It would be a bitch to keep clean but that’s ok. ---
**Author:** ![Beaucarnea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Beaucarnea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beaucarnea)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-car-would-you-want-if-you-had-a-real-choice/391889/9 "2007-02-13T03:15:01Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] Hmm. I would have said royal blue or midnight blue, depending on the car, but plaid is sounding interesting. Black and white plaid with yellow and red thrown in. [/QUOTE] There is a 76 Bug around here with that color scheme. I will try to snap a pic of it this week for you- it is the cutest. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-car-would-you-want-if-you-had-a-real-choice/391889/10 "2007-02-13T04:35:54Z")
A very dark iridescent violet. Of course this would depend somewhat on the way the car itself looked, but going for the ideal car (the original Ford GT40), I think it would work fine. ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-car-would-you-want-if-you-had-a-real-choice/391889/11 "2007-02-13T09:56:50Z")
I always dreamed of a yellow VW beatle with a Porsche engine in it. Yellow, mhhhhh… ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-car-would-you-want-if-you-had-a-real-choice/391889/12 "2007-02-13T10:01:47Z")
Plum Crazy Purple. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-car-would-you-want-if-you-had-a-real-choice/391889/13 "2007-02-13T10:04:22Z")
[Plum Crazy Purple!](http://www.stockmopar.com/pictures/1970-plum-crazy-purple-hemi-cuda.html?id=4) :eek: