FE-FC Holden Discussion Forum

Ok , Guys & Gals
       Plenty of "input" here ....

     YELLOW   or    BLACK

  I'll be getting the "Beast" resprayed soon ...   and was thinking about a change in colour , who likes Yellow & who likes Black ,      let me know.

(http://photo.starblvd.net/normd/1-1-1.jpg)

(http://photo.starblvd.net/normd/4-3-1.jpg)

This car belonged to John Bourke in the early 70's and looked "so good" in Black . (close look , back doors welded in to save weight)

   Norm  :)

If it stays yellow you need an 18" wide black racing stripe right down the middle, or how about black with a yellow stripe???
Or maybe..........................

BLACK,but  pic looks like car has nice paint already

    Daaa ,  Thanks RET,
       I should have thought of that .... but it was late last night , wasn't thinking straight.

   Hey Nicko , afraid she's a bit faded and got a fair bit of "cracked bog" since that pic was taken , it spent a few years "sitting in a paddock" when I moved to the country , but still no serious rust.   :-/

     Norm  :)

then Black's the go

I've voted Black, but I am biased :)
Get a good car cover to stop the dust when it is sitting doing nothing though, I think black attracts the dust particles.

Do the doors open now?

Can u unweld a door?

I voted Black but I do like that yellow too. A bit less common. So yellow, but that Black LOOKS fast. So Black. But there is that dust problem, so definitley yellow.


or black.



Emu - Ambivalent Equivacator.

I hope I've helped!

G;day Norm my old mate,
                                     Well the "phantom" reckons that you should change that yellow colour to PURPLE the same colour as RUSTY"S car.
                                                     Cheers Rusty.
                      ps do you want me to send another pic of the purple machine?

Norm
I like the yellow it makes your car stand out in the crowd and the old girl has been that colour for years and she does have a fair bit of black paint any way.

yea  norm  i'm with emu       definately black or yellow.......although ...have you thought about grey


if it was mine  id go yellow

I think the yellow for its history, after all, It was yellow when I was a primary school kid drooling over it at the Blacktown festival.
The yellow wont blend into the blacktop so much when all the other racers look into the rear vision mirror to see you screem up behind them before passing them, gives em time to make space.

Hey Emu
     They're not the same car ,  the guy who used to own my car , Geoff Darmody ,  ran against the black one ,

      Norm    :)

id go black like the mighty ALL BLACKS !!!!!!!!!!!and the black caps and the tall blacks and black sticks !!!!!!
ewe want me to come over and paint a silver fern on it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D



but then if yer expostulating talk to the miscreant emu

Norm,
I think it would look good in Black but is changing the colour of a car like changing the name on a boat (badluck)
Rgds
Mick

Geez,

Yer make it so easy....

Thought about combining the yellow & black, with some red too?  Black 'guards, red doors, yellow roof... You get the idea. ;D ;D

Seriously, the yellow colour is less common that black so that is a good reason for yellow.  Add a double black GT Stripe from bumper to bumper, over the bonnet, roof & boot, about 1/3 of the width in from the left or right.  The stripes can be the same size and spacing as on a HK GTS.  Period look for period performance...

Spinner

Hi Ya Mick
     Don't think it makes much difference , the car was a shocking  "Olive Green with Orange wheels" , when I bought it .
   Never won anything when it was Green , never won anything when it was Yellow,  BUT never came last either  ;D

    Norm  :)

Changed my vote, I guess I should've read the post properly the first time. Go the Yellow!

then again
"Green is NIIIICCE"
(Running on Empty, 198?)

Sorry Rusty
    Forgot to answer your post , "There's Only One Phantom Mobile"  ;D

   Spinner
   Yea ,  have been thinkin of mixing the two , Yellow /balck stripes or black with yellow stripes . Years ago you weren't allowed to advertise on race cars , so , I think it was Castrol used to sponsor cars if they painted 2 green stripes over the centre of the car , does anyone know what the blue stripes were ?

    Norm  :)

You wait till he gets it hopping Stinky ,He going to raise some money off the wood ducks out Kemps Creek way.
OK Sheryl - get ya gear off, aint that the most .

Norm,

I'm changing my vote too.

I'm a crazy sentimentalist, new age, sensitive kind of a flightless bird. I thought it had been both black and yellow at various times of its racing history, but now that u've cleared that up.

Also, since the bloody Kiwi wants it black in deference to some poofy, loser Rugby team with a pretty fern as their emblem.......

Go yellow!

Emu - No longer equivacting nor ambivalent, sensitive, new age, sentimental, flightless bird with much more fashion sense than the Kiwi.

Kiwi,

Have you been cheating?

I think it is a little obvious that you have enlisted outside help when you use two words like "expostulate" and "miscreant",  almost in correct context AND spelt correctly!

Who do you think you are fooling you recalcitrant, reprehensible, repugnant, rapacious, rodent-like, rodomontade.

That should keep him busy for a while!

Here's a hint Kiwi they're all under "R"

Emu - Confusor of Kiwi

P.S. that last one is a perfect description of our Kiwi.

Hey Normd...
I voted black cos I reckon it looks better, and wilder.... but with that in mind, maybe you should combine the 2 colours....

(http://photo.starblvd.net/~hewart/6-4-2.jpg)

Tough choice.... ;D
Good luck....
Les....

Nice work Les,

I really like that. I wanna change my vote again!

Emu - back to equivicator

emu is ewe indomitable or just injudicious as far as i can see emu ewe are just trying to ingratiate with members of this forum ..as for me i am in the middle of jurisprudence  and ill just let ewe emu juxttapose !!!!!!!!



regards kiwi - emu big worder knowabouter

Wow,

Nice Dictionarising Kiwi. I'm not sure about the contextual accuracy but nice to see you trying anyway.

Spellings good too.  8.5 out of 10.

Now give me an 800 word essay containing 26 new words all in correct context. Off ya go. There's a good boy.

Emu - teacher of the Kiwi

Hey Norm can you guess what colour i would pick  ;)

Hey Glen  (Stinky)
 OOOhh   mate ,   This isn't a NICE Green ,  specially with the Orange Wheels ,  this was the car in 1974 , when I bought it.

(http://photo.starblvd.net/normd/4-3-4-1077159482?m=1&pg=3&ro=2&co=3)

Hey Les ,   thats a "Real Tiger"      ;D  

Norm  :)

hey norm    the green makes yellow look good

Well Norm, after seeing all these replies I just gotta add my bit, and Im watching my spelling too, gotta beat 8.5 out of 10 !!! I am really struggling here one half of me says black the other half yellow, so I reckon yellow with lots of black signs  ;D


Cheers ChrisB   8)

Damn that green is ugly, I remember seeing something like that in my daughter's nappy a few days ago  :P

Hey Stinky
      Yep ,  thats about the colour ......... :P    
The Mrs used to work at Dulux ,   even the Chemists (Industrial) in the Lab's gave up trying to match it.
  The guy who built the car went to paint it & didn't have enough of ANY colour , soooo He just mixed a few  :-/ :-X :-X :-[ :-[ :-[  that was the END result.  ;D

    Norm  :)