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I have to go with Silver Blue. Have to.
Man, that car's a stunner.

Silver Blue *is* nice.

But I think I have to go with either red or white.

I could go white. It would be a second choice though.
I hate red.  
As much as anyone can "hate" a '63 Corvette.

Jenni wrote:

I hate red.  

Some cars just HAVE to be red though.

NoCoPilot wrote:

Some cars just HAVE to be red though.

Absolutely right! They certainly should not be chrome, like this one my daughter ran across in SoHo a few days ago.

Oy.  They did a chrome car on Pimp My Ride or Kounting Cars or one of those shows.  Ugggg-leeee.  I don't care much for the other new hot trend either, flat black.  Looks like primer.

I want a car with LED lights all over it so it can be any color, or any combination of colors, or even appear to be invisible.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiuuRXG6z0E

Yeah, chrome is not the way to go for any car.
However, a friend had a Mercedes 300SL which he took apart, acid dipped and painted with aluminum paint. No pigment in the paint, just metal. It looked metallic, of course, but not ugly like chrome. Actually pretty cool.

I have to admit that I have never been a big fan of Corvettes later than 1960. Then again, I have not cared much for Thunderbirds later than 1957. Or Jaguars later than 1965.

1947 MG-TC, British Racing Green with tan leather interior


Either that or a Morgan

Beautiful cars. I've actually worked on both of those.

EDIT: Okay, you've changed the MG from a TF to a TD while I was typing. My post refers to a 1954 TF.

The MG TF belonged to a local judge (great guy - a screaming liberal appointed by Jerry Brown). It had an MG-B drive train, which helped a little, but the local Jaguar shop had worked on it for him after which it would only go about 55 mph. Couple that with bad wiring and a too-tight pinion in the steering (which nearly put me into a hillside) and it was a piece of crap. I would up replacing every piece of wire in the car as well as repairing all the other problems and it was a lot of fun to drive.

The Morgan +4 belonged to a Political Science professor, a good friend of mine who died a couple of years ago. I had picked it up from his house to tune it and get it ready for his return from sabbatical in England. Going across an intersection, it quit moving, though the engine was running fine. Fortunately, I was only a block from home, so it was no problem to push it there; the thing weighed nothing. The car had a TR-2 or TR-3 engine and an XK-120 transmission. There was a long shaft connecting the engine and tranny, which were about 18 inches apart. The splines were completely gone on the tranny end of the shaft. I don't know how it been able to move at all. Fortunately, JW was in England, so he was able to get all the pieces I needed to rebuild the transmission.

Working on British cars was a really fun way to make a living back then, and I had many friends in academia who drove the things. Old MGs, Triumphs, Jags, Morgans, Aston Martins. Such fun.

I changed the MG from a 1955 TF -- the last year it was produced -- to a 1947 TC because I prefer the grill. I'd take either one, so long as I didn't have to rely on it for transportation.

For some reason I always associate the TC with John Steed and the Avengers, but he drove a Bentley.

Michael Douglas drove a Morgan +4 in War of the Roses.

NoCoPilot wrote:

For some reason I always associate the TC with John Steed and the Avengers, but he drove a Bentley.

I always associated Diana Rigg with the Avengers.

She drove two things, a Lotus and a lot of men crazy.

NoCoPilot wrote:

I'd take either one, so long as I didn't have to rely on it for transportation.

Ha! The early British cars certainly had their problems, maybe the most significant was the lousy electrical bits made by Lucas.
There's an old British car drivers' joke:
"Do you know why the English drink warm beer?"
"No, why?"
"Because they have Lucas refrigerators."

I kept having problems with my Jaguar, so it wound up with a generator from a Plymouth and a regulator from a Cessna 195. But it did come with a Blaupunkt radio.

Thinking back on it, I guess I really did have quite a lot of problems with the British cars I had. I guess I didn't pay any attention to it at the time because I was working on the damn things all the time anyway.

My Cortina stalled every time it rained. And if you drove through a puddle.

The seal on the distributor cap could have been a wee bit better.

That's more often a sign of a bad coil.
Yes, Lucas made coils.

Hey maybe you know the answer to this. I was told I had to use a special oil, because the seals were made of natural rubber or something and normal oil had additives that would eat the seals. It was damned expensive oil. I always wondered if I was being scammed, but had no way to determine.

I don't recall ever hearing that with regard to motor oil. I do know that the seals in the brake cylinders were made of rubber, instead of neoprene, and the cars required specific brake fluids to keep from damaging the seals. If I remember correctly (no guarantee), I would only use Castrol brake fluid.

Also, your girl friend should not drive your GT-6 for 100 miles with the handbrake on. The rear brakes will get hot enough to melt the cup seals in the rear cylinders. Trust me on this one.

On Top Gear Clarkston drove the Lamborghini hard enough that the front brakes glowed in the daylight.

That's normal for ceramic brakes.

I think the colour was intended to be British racing green.

Yes I love that colour. The restaurant nearest work, Varlamo's, has walls of BRG. I painted the walls of my library at home in a variant of it (because I could not get the paint mixed quite right).

It's very British colour.

I want the metal roof on my retirement home (if I ever build it) to be that colour so it'll be invisible to Google Earth

You can't hide from Google, Puny Earthling.