sjd
New Reader
3/17/11 7:06 p.m.
rogerbvonceg wrote:
Green can be nice, but there are a lot of variations on green that are really screwed up. "Green" is a pretty broad category, really.
Some greens really date a car, like all the blue-ish greens from the 90's. Even the M3 from that period fell victim. Sometimes it's good, like the electric greens of the 70's, or of course the classic non-metallic greens like BRG.
Agreed. I once saw a 1992/93/94 Corvette ZR1 in Turquoise Metallic. I wonder how many of those they sold.
As if these didn't already yell "Look at me!"





Van and Car. Both 97's, the year of green.


The Green on the Audi was beautiful. I wish I hadn't sold it (then I think about all the maintenance needed on a 200k Audi!)
My 99 Miata is what they call Emerald Mica, I call it WannaBe British Racing Green. In high school back in the mid-70's I had a 65 Chevelle (I6/AT) that was turquise. The 1st wife and I had a 63 Rambler in the late 70's that was turquise also. Haven't had one since till the Miata. When buying used cars, color isn't really something that important.
It's funny. I've owned a bunch of LBCs but this is the closest thing to a green car I've had

Hal
Dork
3/17/11 8:30 p.m.
Never had a green vehicle. Had one blue car and one brown truck. All the rest including the motorcycles have been red.
Twin_Cam wrote:
I have:
'97 SC2, manual, Rota rims with sticky Kuhmo tires, lowering springs, AEM intake. Also burned about a quart every 400 miles...rebuilt a motor, and then couldn't afford to get the motor put in, and didn't want to do it myself. Sold it all. Pretty dumb, it was a nice car.
Why does yours look cooler than mine? Its the same color but different wheels, lowered.....oh, now I see why. Those clear turn signals look suprisingly good. Where did you get them?

There is a family around the corner from me has a fleet of green cars. I kid you not. Chevy C10 (1970, I'm just waiting for that one to go for sale), Toyota Tercel, Mercedes, and a Ford Explorer.
Rob_Mopar wrote:
And Happy St. Patty's Day to you too.
I've got one green one now:
Wow, Rob! I'm not the biggest Mopar fan in the world, but that one looks so clean I wonder why it's on the trailer!!
Twin_Cam wrote:
I have:
'97 SC2, manual, Rota rims with sticky Kuhmo tires, lowering springs, AEM intake. Also burned about a quart every 400 miles...rebuilt a motor, and then couldn't afford to get the motor put in, and didn't want to do it myself. Sold it all. Pretty dumb, it was a nice car.
TC, if it's any consolation..my best ex-girlfriend had an SC1 coupe when I met her (back when they were new), and the car in your image finally answers my age-old questions about where Saturn would have ended up if they'd been able to "stay the course", instead of ending up in the bottomless pit of GM's worldwide "badge engineering". I still recall driving her SC1 and thinking, "..this is an American car? No way!!.."
gamby
SuperDork
3/18/11 12:31 a.m.
Current beater:

Nothing screams "sex" like a green sedan with tan cloth interior and a tan dash 
mtn
SuperDork
3/18/11 12:48 a.m.

Thats all I have to say about that
Oh can I play, I have one Green car and it serves me fairly well. Had it going on 10 years and asit has little value to anyone but me I think it will be with me Forever.
gamby
SuperDork
3/18/11 8:48 a.m.
mtn wrote:
gamby wrote:
Current beater:
Nothing screams "sex" like a green sedan with tan cloth interior and a tan dash
And steelies!
...shot with Hakkapalittas
(that's winter battle mode)
My JettaGLI is still in Vadermoden as well.