Quite simply, I want to know what (sporting) car looks best, or at least good, in brown. It's like it exploded on every car in sight in the 70's and 80's but went away as quickly as the pet rock. Surely there have to be some decent looking cars, perhaps even modern ones, in this color?
(and yes, I think the rally SAAB looks good)
Steve McQueen's Ferrari 250, for one. 
Old Toyotas slammed on cool wheels look rad in any colour, really.
Late '70s 911 (was that the 964?).
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(For the record, brown is dead sexy on anything moderately curvy and '70s, if you ask me.)
At my friend Noah's shop, a case study in '70s awesomeness: 
It's a Banks twin turbo. More pics on his site, and you gotta go just to check out the interior shots. So many helpless Naugas died to upholster this car...
Wow, that 'Vette just won the thread. Astonishingly cool car.
Still, have an Alfetta:
alex wrote: Late '70s 911 (was that the 964?). /thread (For the record, brown is dead sexy on anything moderately curvy and '70s, if you ask me.)
the 964 was not until much later. back then the 911 was the 911 unless it was some variant (930 etc)
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I still want a brown Miata.
alex wrote: At my friend Noah's shop, a case study in '70s awesomeness: X It's a Banks twin turbo. More pics on his site, and you gotta go just to check out the interior shots. So many helpless Naugas died to upholster this car...
Hijack - OK, it's not brown but it is badass-ness on wheels.
fornetti14 wrote:
That would be Ponch's "Bronze Beauty".....
I like the bronze/brown on the late SN95 mustangs
Oldschool Japanese car with small, low offset wheels look cool in any color.
70's barges...on the other hand.
I still would like to here from the person who decided slathering brown paint on a car was a good idea.
Meh, I like brown. Kim and I just ordered a Clubman in "Hot Chocolate" which is a dark metallic brown.
There's a brown 90s Celica in my neighborhood. Looks like a potato.
While I love the 911SC in brown, I think that the perfect shade was the one that Mazda used in the early 80's. My parents had an 81 626 in metallic brown. They used the same color on the early RX-7's.
Definitely the 911.
Late Corvair ('65 - '69) looks good in Aztec Bronze, a color that was only available in '66:
I grabbed the above image from Gary Aube's excellent site www.corvaircorsa.com
Below, we see what that might look like with different rims (pre-restoration, of course)
Lifted that image from www.corvaircenter.com
Ahhh, one more reason to lement/get jelous over my sister's first car, E36 M3 brown '78 Mustang II. V6/auto brown coupe, what better cool/screwball first car could you find for $350 in '96.
Back on topic, it really helps if it is a metalic with the term 'Burnt' in the color desription
My 83 Rx7 was brown... looked really good actually!
I have seen the fiat 124 spider in a metallic brown.. it looked good.
And this always looks good in brown:
911 for sure.
not really sporting, but a cool color none the less...called Burnt Penny
Early Ferrari FTW
4cylndrfury wrote: not really sporting, but a cool color none the less...called Burnt Penny
Unfortunately, rarely do dealership buyers around here order cars in any other colors but light gray, dark gray, medium gray, black, white, and silver. occasionally you see a "champagne" colored car on a lot. that's as close as they get. Green rears its head now and again. I haven't seen a new brown car around here for a long time.
do the copper colored Pontiac GTPs and Nissan Zs of a few years back count as "Brown"?
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