Is it just me or have car color names gotten just lazy in the last few years? Where have the regal and fancy sounding names gone? For example, here are just a few colors offered by General Motors in the 1950s:

• Empress Blue
• Chester Green
• Bolero Maroon
• Mountain Laurel
• Dawn Gray
• Sonic Blue
• Biscayne Blue
• Milori Green
• Sapphire Mist

Honda has some decent ones like Blue Sensation and Orange Revolution but if you ask me, paint names today are just dull and boring and sometimes even without thought. Hyundai has a color called Black Noir Pearl which is basically twice as black but half of it in French. Seriously? That's the best you can do? Maybe I'm just a sucker for some old-fashioned marketing baloney but I think paint colors could be a bit more imaginative. Maybe it doesn't even matter.

 

Good thread. Colours had elegance years ago.

My favourites:

Rangoon Red
Wimbledon White
Raven Black
Phoenician Yellow
Guardsman Blue
Navaho Beige
Samoan Coral (the rarest of the Ford colours)





Terry

 

plum crazy purple
sublime green
panther pink

 

Terry...a friend of mine has a '66 Galaxie 500 in Emberglow.

 

Emberglow is a rare colour. Very striking.

Take a look at this colour:

http://www.oldride.com/classic_cars/134600.html

Samoan Coral originally on any 1964 Ford/Mercury increases the price substantially. I'm completing a car in this colour with a contrasting white roof, black vinyl interior, and body coloured wheels.



Terry

 

Not surprising I listed FoMoCo and you listed Plymouth/Dodge.




Terry

 

 

Wow Terry....that Samoan Coral is beautiful!

 

Buick definitely had a patriotic thing going on in 1976 but I guess that's understandable. Here are their Bicentennial-themed color names:

• Liberty White
• Potomac Blue
• Independence Red
• Mt. Vernon Cream
• Continental Blue
• Concord Green
• Colonial Yellow
• Musket Brown
• Boston Red
• Firecracker Orange

 

GM still has some of their same color names, as far as I know.

Tuxedo Black
Hugger Orange
Royal Plum
Dover White
LeMans Blue
Daytona Yellow
Rallye Green
Fathom Green
Cortez Silver

 

Dark Emerald Pearl

 

agreed. Just listing the names of those colors seemed as if they were more creative or put more time into naming the colors.

 

Were you up late thinking of totally random things again?

:troutslap

 

^^^^^^

This.

But I am partial to Sebring Silver Metallic, the color of my S2000.

 

No....this is something I've been thinking about for a while.

 

I will be painting my bike "Flake Sunrise Orange"...

 

Estoril Blue
Interlagos Blue
Le Mans Blue
Leguna Seca Blue
Hellrot Red
Imola Red
Technoviolet
Sebring Gray
Dakar Yellow

 

^to add to your bmw colors
Phoenix Yellow
Alpine White
Oxford Green Metallic
Evergreen (sick color)

 

My car is Sierra Yellow.

 

Hmm..

Sprint Blue
Deep Sea Blue
Imola Yellow
Meteor Gray
Daytona Gray
Phantom Black
Velvet Purple

These are pretty good. I think Hyundai just needs to think of better names.

 

these are more recent color names (I think) but I like them not creative or anything, but I don't see anything wrong with that.

Electron Blue
Oxford White
Balloon White
Rosso Corsa
Molten Orange
Snakeskin Green
Anaconda Green
Velocity Yellow
Mystichrome (ugly, but unique )

and as mentioned, one of my favorite colors of all time, Hugger Orange

 

My car is gunmetal grey, but that is too new.

My 78 Chrysler Cordoba was primer gray, primer red, and rust. Does that count?

Seriously, was Hemi Orange a color for 68-70 Dodge Chargers? I recall a friend of mine getting his repainted in the original Hemi Orange color.

 

You need a hobby. Like cleaning garages.

 

Alpine White!

 

Here are a few names I came up with last night while lying in bed, waiting for the sandman.

• Shimmering Silver
• Dovetail Gray
• Winter White
• Mystic Black
• Abyssal Blue
• Garden Green
• Royal Red (like a maroon or burgundy)
• Inferno Red (fire engine red)
• Silken Beige

 

I'm partial to British Racing Green...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sly4th/...n/photostream/

 

"Dusty Rose" is my fave...

 

59 Caddy, right?

 

Flamenco Black Pearl

 

Doo doo brown.

 

Honda has some good ones in the last 20 years.

• Championship White
• Electron Blue
• Super Sonic Blue
• Cyclone Blue
• Aztec Green
• Sherwood Green
• Sundance Gold
• Milano Red
• Cashmere Silver

 

Nighthawk Black Pearl
Moroccan Red Pearl
Kinetic Blue Pearl
Mayan Bronze Metallic
Vortex Blue Pearl

Some 2008+ Acura colors. Don't seem too boring to me. There's a fine line between tacky and classy that car makers try to market their cars with, so they aren't going to have paint names that make you chuckle.

 

I've been waiting for you Corvette guys.............

No one? It's a legend.........

Nassau Blue.






Terry

 

I always liked Lemans Sunset (350z)

 

Old School is cool !!!!