Battleship Grey Gloss painted cars everywhere

[DeltaV]

Smoke Show and Triple Nickel are interesting in person. Smoke Show looks a lot better in person than pictured.

That being said, a Challenger in Go Man Go would be my first choice.

 

[Dodge-Scatpack]

While I don’t necessarily care for green or brown on 60’s/70’s mopars, that was the fad during the time and seemed to resonate with a lot of buyers. Much like the battleship gray of today (I don’t care for that color either). I’ve always thought that certain vehicles look better in certain colors, so it’s not always as easy to discount a specific color. While I own 4 black vehicles, some look better than others just based on body styles. Regardless, black is a bitch to keep clean.

 

[33 IMP]

I'd take battleship gray over black 100 times. I own one half-black car, and one all black car, and that's two too many.
Black cars can look GREAT, especially if somebody else is keeping them clean, not me.

 

[Budnicks]

I'd take battleship gray over black 100 times. I own one half-black car, and one all black car, and that's two too many.
Black cars can look GREAT, especially if somebody else is keeping them clean, not me.

& Garage parked, normally...

 

[Detective D]

I don't like the grey. At all.
I have liked silver on some vehicles over the years. But it has to be the right silver. There are a lot of "crappy" silver colors, they look more like a matte silver, and run closer to "bright grey" then actual silver.
The 94 Mustang I sold to my boy is "Opal Frost" and with some bright silver painted wheels(steeda) and clean(new) original diamond clear headlights the color is fantastic.
The early 80's Imperials in silver looked about as classy as you could make a car.

Black looks good on a lot of vehicles. My '13 Charger is black, with the optional black out grill and the polished steel/black wheels. Yes, it is in a garage. I am fond of 1990's SUV's in black. The late 90's Durango for example.

White looks good on some vehicles too. But again, has to be the right kind of white, and the right vehicle. I have always liked Dodge truck white from 80's 90's, it is basically generic titanium white so it is very bright, with clear on it it stands out. Dodge second gen design and Dakota's second gen look amazing in white, especially with the red lettering for the sport versions from a few years. BMW has always had that striking Alpine white color. I don;t even like beemers, but the white ones do catch your attention.

But that muted primer grey color? That is going to be a fad that goes away and devalues the vehicles in a few years, like some of the pinkish colors from the 90's, or that turquois color GM put on their trucks back then, or the rainbow of mid 90's S10 choices, pink with black, blue with pink wheel arches.... blech.

Forrest green metallic seems to go in and out of style, but I have always liked it. Same with deep metallic blues. The difference with those and this primer grey is green and blue won;t devalue your car.

 

[Detective D]

And since no one has really posted a picture of the color in question, behold!

 

[Kern Dog]

I've often wondered if the industry sells what the public wants or are they trying to drive the market.
It isn't just cars. It also affects clothes. What if the stores only stocked black and gray pants that barely went below the knee. Would people just buy what the store had or boycott a purchase until the manufacturers pulled their heads out of their asses?

 

[gary h]

Here is my '12 Chally Blackberry pearl,Beautiful color. Now if i could only get the heater to put out Hot air.

 

[gary h]

"The early 80's Imperials in silver looked about as classy as you could make a car."

I agree, Although i had an '82 Imp. in Black.

 

[Photon440]

And since no one has really posted a picture of the color in question, behold!

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I can go a bit older...1941 Plymouth.

 

[Krooser]

Years ago DuPont would issue a list of all the automotive colors in order of popularity.

They also claimed that people bought colors that reflected their opinions of how the economy, and life in general, was going.

Bright colors meant folks were happy. Browns, grays etc meant things were not well.

I bought a new '71 Toyota Corona Mk II in 1973. It was silver...and had a/c. Silver was a poor seller and air on a 4 cylinder car was a death sentence here in the Midwest. No one wanted a car that would slow down when the air kicked in.

I started working in sales at our local Ford dealer in early '91. My boss was very conservative in his life and his inventory reflected that.

He ordered cheap F150's, lots of Escorts. Few cars on stock had power windows, locks, cruise etc.

The colors were also blah....mostly white and brown/tan.

Near the end of the summer we looked over the cars that didn't sell. Everyone was white, tan or gray.

For '92 I convinced him to order some popular colors...reds, greens, blues even black.

Back then the Taurus was our best seller but only the SHO was available in black. You couldn't even get a black Crown Vic but you could get a black Grand Marquis.

Those better color cars always turned faster than the other colors.

 

[Cranky]

My favorite color scheme EVER, is coral and gray on 55 chevies. Mopar and Ford did similar, a year or three later.
So, I had my Tina painted a dark metallic gray, was going to add a pink (coral) accent stripe, never got around to it.
I now own four red cars, even though I don't particularly like red. Oh well.....

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Same here on red.....and have 2 red pick ups.

 

[68BabyBlue]

The early 80's Imperials in silver looked about as classy as you could make a car.
I agree, Although i had an '82 Imp. in Black.

Many would say my '62 Imperial was too outlandish to be considered classy, but in the factory rose silver, it sure was eye catching. Same car in black looks great, but I'd hate to detail something with that much surface area.

 

[68BabyBlue]

This Bentley from the 1930s was way ahead of the trend when it was built. Factory color, changed over the decades, but put back to original during the final restoration. Red interior, not visible in photo, provides a good contrast.

 

[Runcharger]

I would never have bought this if it were grey, I don't find keeping it clean is a very hard task either, it's therapeutic actually.

 

[Hey-O]

The right color is only right, if that's the color the owner wants.

I worked with a very happy guy that told me, if a women didn't weigh over 200, he didn't want her, color didn't matter. LOL

 

[Runcharger]

Mopars wouldn't be Mopars if they were all grey either. Think how boring these would be if they were all the same colour as concrete.

 

[themechanic]

Yeah, color is a problem. Ended up with 2 this color just to avoid black, white, or gray. No high impacts were available.

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So, that's what that red streak was that went by me!

 

[Geff McCarthy]

Plum Purple photo please!!

 

[turbine68rt]

but that flat gray looks like a clear coat over gray primer

Agreed