Show us a hideous car color

[iamsuperdan]

14 minutes ago, Rob Hall said:

I like that Chevy green, a Corvette would look good in it...better that awful battleship gray that is so popular, or the usual silver, black and white...

That can be ordered!

 

[Rob Hall]

I like that...though Zeus Bronze is my favorite C8 color.

[Xingu]

If the color has the words "Sea Foam" in it, it will be ugly.

[Big Messer]

Personal favorite is Plum Crazy, but read my previous post also...

[StevenGuthmiller]

Let’s face it.

It’s not so much the colors.

It’s the modern automobile that’s ugly!!

 

Steve

 

 

[Falcon Ranchero]

Seems that there's not technically such a thing as an "ugly colour" because of the vast types of people that have different tastes. Plus, I've seen beautiful stock appearing '50s, '60s and maybe a few '70s cars that had been re-painted with these modern colours and look very nice. Like an econoline pickup I saw at a show, had some newer Toyota or mazda silvery colour or something. Was stock otherwise and looked quite nice to me. It's basically what Steve mentioned above, it is indeed the modern "vehicles" that have lost the luster, and so they may come across as hideous in some colours, meanwhile if you saw a vintage car in, even the first colour in this thread, you probably wouldn't hate it.

Edited Wednesday at 05:40 PM by Falcon Ranchero

[espo]

As a good note on car colors, I have noticed some new or late model cars with some rich colors often looking almost like a Candy type finish. Far too many newer cars and trucks in shades of Silver and Gray as well as White or Black. Doesn't seem to be a lot of imagination in the color palates anymore. 

[SSNJim]

10 hours ago, iamsuperdan said:

 

And must also hate the colour on this:

 

The problem with that is that it looks like Bubba just took a break from his angle grinder session to go get another beer.

Edited Thursday at 12:09 AM by SSNJim

[1972coronet]

10 hours ago, Big Messer said:

Opinions are like that spot where the sun never shines: everybody has one. Just admit it, respect everybody else's one and carry on.

Gwyneth Paltrow's "Sunning" routine seems to be in spite of that old adage...

[Big Messer]

35 minutes ago, 1972coronet said:

Gwyneth Paltrow's "Sunning" routine seems to be in spite of that old adage...

There is a difference between "having" and "being"...

[bobss396]

I had my old Ford on the road for about a week in 2016, in primer (as it still is...). 

Some guy in a new Mustang, a hideous shade of yellow, pulls up next to me and asks me what color I was going to paint it.

My reply was, surely not baby poo yellow... he was not pleased.

[Earl Marischal]

I’m quite taken with some of the variations on sage green that are appearing on some modern cars, if not the vehicles themselves.

That said, green is my favourite colour. 🙂

steve

[Ace-Garageguy]

I like pie. 

[Rob Hall]

Not really into the matte and 'frozen' finishes that have been trendy in recent years either..I like shiny. 

[Monty]

On 10/30/2025 at 9:08 AM, Ace-Garageguy said:

I like pie. 

 

Edited Saturday at 05:55 PM by Monty

[1972coronet]

There's a couple of Chrysler colours which folks seemed to have stayed away hard from ; one of them was offered only two (staggered ) years (1969 & 1971) , and one which around only for 1971 :

- EL5 Butterscotch (Dodge) / Bahama Yellow (Plymouth) 

- GY3 Citron Yella (Dodge) / Curious Yellow (Plymouth)

These colours look much nicer in person

  1) Curious Yellow '71 'Cuda
2 ) 1971 GTX Hemi in its original paint , EL5 Bahama Yellow 

 

[espo]

19 hours ago, 1972coronet said:

There's a couple of Chrysler colours which folks seemed to have stayed away hard from ; one of them was offered only two (staggered ) years (1969 & 1971) , and one which around only for 1971 :

- EL5 Butterscotch (Dodge) / Bahama Yellow (Plymouth) 

- GY3 Citron Yella (Dodge) / Curious Yellow (Plymouth)

These colours look much nicer in person

  1) Curious Yellow '71 'Cuda
2 ) 1971 GTX Hemi in its original paint , EL5 Bahama Yellow 

 

You forgot Panther Pink. 

[1972coronet]

16 minutes ago, espo said:

You forgot Panther Pink. 

FM3 Panther Pink / Moulin Rouge was a Spring 1970-only colour. I'm surprised by the number of 1970 cars which were slathered in FM3! Apparently, it was also special ordered on a couple of 1971 cars , and, allegedly on a couple of 1972 models ( I've only seen the 1971 Charger R/T in FM3 ; its paint code isn't the usual-for-Chrysler "999" - it's "148" or something rather unusual.)

[Rob Hall]

Chrysler definitely had some interesting colors back then.   My favorites are the more subtle colors like F8 Green, Winchester Gray, and this burnt orange (not sure what it was called).

 

 

[espo]

17 minutes ago, 1972coronet said:

FM3 Panther Pink / Moulin Rouge was a Spring 1970-only colour. I'm surprised by the number of 1970 cars which were slathered in FM3! Apparently, it was also special ordered on a couple of 1971 cars , and, allegedly on a couple of 1972 models ( I've only seen the 1971 Charger R/T in FM3 ; its paint code isn't the usual-for-Chrysler "999" - it's "148" or something rather unusual.)

Man had to be comfortable in his own skin to drive one of those Pink cars. 

[1972coronet]

1 hour ago, espo said:

Man had to be comfortable in his own skin to drive one of those Pink cars. 

I'd drive the "BLAH_BLAH" outta a pink 340 Duster ! 

[Tim W. SoCal]

1 hour ago, Rob Hall said:

burnt orange (not sure what it was called).

K5, Dodge Dark Burnt Orange, Plymouth Deep Burnt Orange.

[PowerPlant]

I nominate my car 😝 most people dislike the primer look, but I dig it 😎

[Big Messer]

I think I found it: