who buys a brown car?

I had a 'brown' car bought 2000. A Rover 620 SI coloured 'Kinversand'.
I loved the colour and it changed with the weather - from chcolate brown on a grim, cloudy day to a glorious,rich,'lucozade' look on sunny summer evenings.
It was the last ever 620 in the showrooms as it was an unpopular colour. LOVED that car for a decade XX.

Jim Rockford - he had that brown Pontiac Firebird in the 1970s.

metallic bronze surely!

Ivor, an uplifting story and it's shone a little sunshine on my otherwise dull afternoon here on Betfair.

Have you had any brown cars since?

My mate Pete and I bought a brown Morris 1100 in 1979, the reason being that it was available for £60 ono. (After haggling we bought it for a pony each.) As I've never learnt to drive, the colour wasn't an issue for me - he was the one in the driving seat.

Gave us 10 months of happy motoring around the University of Sussex and the rest of the Brighton area, until we ran out of both the skill and the money to keep it running. It died behind one of the admin blocks on campus, so we pushed it into a vacant staff space in the car park and, for all I know, it may still be there, if anyone wants a free brown car.

I had a beautiful "Rover 3500 S" in "Mexican Tan" with a matching vinyl roof.

Golly (if I can say that word these days) it seems like we have a few brown car afficionados on the forum.

I might start a thread about brown suits tomorrow - did you ever own one, sort of thing (I did once but I'd never admit it).

who buys a brown car?

I would guess the same sort of people that wear brown pants

brown is only beautiful in marble or textured form 

ie in patterned curtains,velvets  ,sofas ,stone ,wood etc and in coats , clothing etc - where you get differing shades of brown.

Block brown -ie in cars ,football shirts ,paint on walls etc is goddam awful

My 2nd car, a Vauxhall Nova was brown. I didn't care about the colour, I just wanted a Vauxhall Nova.

i should have been a designer or colour co-ordinator , and  my first step  woodav been to sort out the colors on this new site 

wonder why every car between 1997 and 2010 was painted silver ?

did the planet have a glut of silver paint  ?

Black and brown are the colours most likely to be in an accident
though it obviously has not affected the popularity of black.

Bought a brown jacket from a gentlemen's outfitters in Castle Cary when I landed a date with the sort of lady who would demand a jacket from a gentlemen's outfitters in Castle Cary.

The salesman informed me the colour was chocolate, and I was very lucky, as it was the only one left and it happened to be my size.

The date informed me that the colour was in fact "sh1tty", and I type this now a lonely and bitter old man.

I bought an old Vauxhall Chevette in 1991 for £185 of a man who worked for Kwik Fit he had used a lot of the firms stock on the car prior to sale. one like this


https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=vauxhall+chevette&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CCwQsARqFQoTCMDs05eynMcCFUhH2wodilgCTQ&biw=1024&bih=463#imgrc=7TN2ygy4h9MRkM%3A

screaming, you've bolted!

I wasn't going to start the brown suit thread until tomorrow.

Still, you deserve a little leeway given your sad tale.

BTW, what colour were your trousers - not green corduroy (what a funny word), I hope.

(I did have a brown suit too) :)
No, mememe.. another rare one now though.. a Spectrum Blue Jaguar. LUSH!

suits are something else that shouldn't be brown


banned list

suits
football shirts
cars
painted walls
shorts
pants

BLOCK colors

most blokes don't have a clue - no wonder they don't have much success with the fairer sex   

I recall the maxi coming out from BL ... that came in brown.

One of its selling points was that you could recline both front seats and create a double bed ... don't know what you did with the gearstick though ... or why you would want a 2 week holiday in a maxi!

Good friends with a couple who had a blue maxi ... he went off with wife's best friend - don't know if the maxi had anything to do with it though.

jack regan is on the trumpet to the op even as I type...

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the old Granada  was like a metallic gold -  smart cars they were .

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Rover 3500 S....

fck me, that's one plug ugly motor   

give me a P5 any day 

Noel Gallagher was famously given a chocolate brown Rolls Royce by his record label boss, but I think NG chose the colour himself.

The P5 Coupe was a fabulous looking car. It was said it was like a "Gentleman's Club On Wheels".

Of course that would have a different meaning now!

this fred brings to mind the late, great anthony newley:


He lost his virginity to Diana Dors, was given a Jaguar by the Mafia, was taught to ice skate by Paul Newman and was said to have had an affair with Barbra Streisand.

Of the Jaguar he said: "The Mob still ran Vegas when I first played there, in 1969. These guys from the Mob came up to me and said - 'We'd like to give you a present. Whaddya want?'

"So I said - 'I'd like a chocolate brown Jaguar'.

"And so they drove it on to the stage! Thank you, Mafia! I drove it back to my home in LA and I sold it."