Argh, colour choice again...

jbcollier · Post by **jbcollier** » Mon Nov 25, 2013 5:39 pm

What do you think of this colour?

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc17 ... 7df2ea.jpg

I think it is pretty close to the dark blue...

(The car is sweet too!)

Angelo · Post by **Angelo** » Mon Nov 25, 2013 6:38 pm

very nice

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » Mon Nov 25, 2013 9:17 pm

Both colour and car are ultra-boss. Even better colour than those other blues.

jbcollier · Post by **jbcollier** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 4:45 pm

One final kick at the can:

http://www.lotuseuropa.org/LotusForum/i ... pic=381.15

I sort of like this BRG, and it's a correct colour for a 1968 S1 Europa.

redbike · Post by **redbike** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 6:44 pm

I like BRG just fine. Kinda fond of the darker blue though. And if'n it ain't gonna be red, then I reckon I'd vote blue...

Angelo · Post by **Angelo** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:40 pm

The Colour sure has a weird flip to it, in certain lights it looks like a Renault Alpine... weird

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 2:07 pm

Call me conservative (as in Red Tory?), but I am always in favour of OEM stock colours. That BRG is very pukkah.

jbcollier · Post by **jbcollier** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 4:20 pm

Sigh, I was afraid someone would say just that as I feel the very same way. More sleepless nights ahead for me.

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 4:39 pm

Let's face it, it would cause you physical pain to come around a corner and see your Europa in any colour other than OEM. You would end up getting it repainted.

jbcollier · Post by **jbcollier** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 5:43 pm

The first thing I will do is apply to Lotus to see if they have any record of the original colour and proceed from there.

Angelo · Post by **Angelo** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 9:47 pm

Humm....your scooters aren't OEM (well one is but you had no choice there)....just thought I'd throw that in.

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 10:04 pm

Good point, Angelo!
But a scooter is so much smaller... and almost no scooters survive decades without a repaint --

It would be interesting to know what the original colour was.

jbcollier · Post by **jbcollier** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 10:20 pm

I don't remember all the colours I found while taking it apart but there was orange, green, blue and, almost certainly the original colour, red. Therein lies the dilemma, I have worked on so many frick'n red sports cars, I couldn't bear owning one. And, as John has so wisely pointed out, men of certain age shouldn't drive red sports cars -- at least not and be taken seriously.

Which, channelling Julie Andrews, bring us back to do(ugh), as in it is going to cost a freak'n fortune to paint this thing so I had better get it right the first time!

I'm back to dark blue.

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 6:55 pm

It's the Model T principle in reverse: any colour so long as it's not pitiful-old- man's red!