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Offline 4129R

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Red Yellow and Black
« on: Monday,July 04, 2022, 10:10:56 AM »
Which colour do you prefer?

If you are German or Belgian, you would appreciate all three.

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Re: Red Yellow and Black
« Reply #1 on: Monday,July 04, 2022, 10:25:59 AM »
I have to say that I've always thought if a car looks good white, it looks good - thus, my car is white. But I have to say that over the last few years, I've warmed up to yellow quite a lot. A clean black car is spectacular but it's way too hot here for an un-air conditioned black car and they stay clean for about 15 minutes!

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Re: Red Yellow and Black
« Reply #2 on: Monday,July 04, 2022, 11:56:46 AM »
Yellow!
The more I do the more I find I need to do....remember your ABC’s …anything but chinesium!

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Re: Red Yellow and Black
« Reply #3 on: Monday,July 04, 2022, 12:06:55 PM »
"Arrest Me Red", of course.
But my car will be light blue again.

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Re: Red Yellow and Black
« Reply #4 on: Monday,July 04, 2022, 12:56:53 PM »
Although I have a black Special, which I dont think you can beat because of it's F1 history, if i was getting an S1 or S2 I'd go for yellow  with a significant factor being visibility, particularly at night!

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Re: Red Yellow and Black
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday,July 05, 2022, 02:04:33 AM »
I would definitely go with yellow but I also like the others.

I am not happy with a red Europa being associated with a Ferrari by some ignorant strangers.
Yellow is something special on the road, black isn't and thinking of the S1 and S2, black was no original colour (?)
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Re: Red Yellow and Black
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday,July 05, 2022, 04:16:19 PM »
   Of the Three colors... with all my Black mirrors and schemes that change from emerald green to black, a beautiful yellow is where I believe the car looks best.
  What is the original color?
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Re: Red Yellow and Black
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday,July 06, 2022, 12:50:11 AM »
   Of the Three colors... with all my Black mirrors and schemes that change from emerald green to black, a beautiful yellow is where I believe the car looks best.
  What is the original color?
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The yellow is original, the black is original, and the Carnival Red used to be Regency Red, which I thought looked truly horrible.

I have 3 JPS Black, 2 Lagoon Blue the Lotus Yellow and the Carnival Red.

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Re: Red Yellow and Black
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday,July 06, 2022, 08:34:40 AM »
I like the Roman Purple too on the Specials.