Look at this grisly effort.
tinyurl.com/brbkcf8
I regularly see a 60 plate Audi TT finished in a dull matt black, ghastly! This picture doesn't really show how ghastly.
tinyurl.com/c5v6sh5
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Nothing wrong with the Audi is there? Except that it's a TT of course. The paint job is fine.
Tend to agree about the Aston Martin though. Perhaps it would be cool in hot sunny weather. But it's too understated for my taste. If you've got it, flaunt it why not?
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Dont see much wrong with either of them to be frank.
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Quite like the matt black one. Quite practical too really
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Until someone pulls off the wrapping :-)
I wonder what you do if someone decides to remove some of the wrapping on a car?
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>> Quite like the matt black one. Quite practical too really
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Au Contraire.
I drove a souped-up Fiesta earlier this year, and it had the matt black vinyly wrapping.
It was a beggar to keep clean, showed up all the dirt and greasy marks from fingers and road filth, and even though there were only about 4000 miles on the clock, was already starting to look a bit tatty in places.
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>>Dont see much wrong with either of them to be frank.
>>Quite like the matt black one. Quite practical too really
You really need to see them in the flesh.
I mentioned on here some time ago that I had spotted a matt black Fiat 500 in our local Sainsbury car park. It may well be a practical colour, but it looked truly horrendous.
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Oh it some sort of vinyl wrapping is it? I would like a matt black car that that you could simply hand paint when it got scratched and you wouldn't notice. Some sort of rubberised finish would be ideal. Odd really when you think about it finishing cars with a paint job that will cost hundreds in the event of a small scratch when such damage is inevitable
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...Oh it some sort of vinyl wrapping is it?...
Almost certainly:
www.totally-dynamic.co.uk/go/colour-change
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Low sheen black submarine paint would make a good car finish. :-)
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>> Low sheen black submarine paint would make a good car finish. :-)
Battleship grey was a colour favoured by someone that I knew years ago.
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>> Low sheen black submarine paint would make a good car finish. :-)
might absorb the laser speed gun reflection as a bargain.
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>> >> Low sheen black submarine paint would make a good car finish. :-)
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>> might absorb the laser speed gun reflection as a bargain.
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The anechoic tiles under the paint might help, but would double the weight of the car!
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There is a guy round the corner from me, who has a late 50's US Ford pick up truck. It not chopped or modded, and a quick look underneath reveals it to be pristine and heavily restored to mint condition.
Its been sprayed with a very clever effect that makes it look a rusty old heap. So good, the P ikeys keep knocking on his door offering 50 quid to drag it away.
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Known as the 'rat-look' I believe. Watch out for a Rattle's rat-look Panda in the Manchester area ;-)
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In fact, take a look here: rat-look.com/what-is-rat-look/
Perhaps the OAP+ rat look is something some C4P posters could emulate :-)
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Yeah he also has a rat-look VW Pickup that appears from time to time.
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""OAP+ is not the most common of styling methods. Take something that would be considered an old codgers car, for example a Rover Metro or Renault 5 Campus in pristine condition, leave it as it is other than a huge slam and ideally a better engine hiding under the bonnet, then fill it with your typical OAP accessories, picnic rug, walking stick, national trust stickers and so on… It’s one of our favourite styles of ‘Rat-Look’ as you cannot get any more of a stealth effect.. until you apply the gas and give other cars and passers by a complete shock!".
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>> fill it with your typical OAP accessories, picnic rug,
I was doing that 20 years ago - my second car was my just-deceased Grandad's Cavalier MkII. I kept the stately home stickers in the windows and spread out a tartan picnic rug on the parcel shelf to hide the four 6"x9" speakers I'd fitted.
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Hmm this deceptive rat look, didn't we used to call them Q cars.
Usually looking like the bog standard low spec baby engined offering with wheeltrims and misleading badging, sometimes made better by discreet owners who didn't others to know their 1.6L Sierra was in fact a 2.9 4x4.
Just remembered, my mates mk4 Cortina badged 1.6 hid a Granada 2.9 lump under the bonnet.
I'd have liked a Hilux in matt black, stern mounted large caliber gun would have come in useful too.
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>>Just remembered, my mates mk4 Cortina badged 1.6 hid a Granada 2.9 lump under the bonnet<<
Why did'ne not just buy a V6 2.3 Dagenham dustbin rather than go to all that bovver??
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>> Why did'ne not just buy a V6 2.3 Dagenham dustbin rather than go to all
>> that bovver??
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lets see now 2900 minues 2300 equals vroom.;)
Anecdote note here, my usual MAN F90 tractor unit running solo with Eaton twin splitter gearbox (instant changes if you knew how) just had the edge on him for acceleration up to about 85 and a bit, good fun we used to have back then.
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S'funny ... I had a Mrk 2 1.6 Cortina (super!) and I fitted a twin choke Weber, K&N filter, stage 2 head, 4 branch man, Jeff Howe straight through exhaust, Lumenition, stiff strut inserts, Mota-Lita steering wheel, wood effect fablon (hahaha!) to dash and tops of doors!!
Why the pfd didn't I just buy a 1600E and done with it :D
Although I did swop it in for a Capri 1600 GT, eventually.
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>> Why the pfd didn't I just buy a 1600E and done with it :D
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Cos they fetched silly money then, trend starter that car.
I put estate car springs on my mk2 1.6 deluxe...;)
I helped my old mate slip the engine and box from a mk2 1600GT into his bog standard mk1 1200, that thing really moved, couple of times after a minor road burn another petrol head would pull up and ask him wots it got?, he'd always say nothing its the standard 1200, the cleverer ones would take a look through the window spot where the gearstick came up through the hole we chiselled in the tunnel.
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>> Cos they fetched silly money then, trend starter that car.
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My 1600E did not fetch silly money when I came to sell it.
I did however get the comment "Oh it is a real one !"
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I'd like to drive a 1600E today, just to compare it to an alf decent car, like a Lancer Estate for instance ;)
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I'd like it if modern cars were half as nice to work on as a 1600E..;)
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>>I'd like to drive a 1600E today, just to compare it to an alf decent car, like a Lancer Estate for instance ;)
No servo on the brakes. Very exciting when reverting from an extended car hire ( with servo brakes) y
Heavy steering. ( standard steering box tore off the chassis rails ) and a pain to park after the tread was worn down.
>>I'd like it if modern cars were half as nice to work on as a 1600E..;)
Thank goodness it was easy to work on. It took a big chunk out of my life.
>> Pure joy gb :)
Not my description :-)
Loved driving it and sad to see it go.
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Great cars the Mrk 2, better than the Mrk 3 IMO, and of course the Marina came nowhere near it, even in TC or Ital guise,
I liked the Mrk 4 as well (more than the Mrk 5) The 2.3 Ghia auto was ace!
The Victor was good, but heavier to drive than the Cortina, the Hunter was also good, but not as-good as the ole Dagenham dustbin IMO.
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>> Anecdote note here, my usual MAN F90 tractor unit running solo with Eaton twin splitter
>> gearbox (instant changes if you knew how) just had the edge on him for acceleration
>> up to about 85 and a bit, good fun we used to have back then.
Do truck drivers enjoy driving tractor units solo? I had one behind me once on the A66. The hills didn't stop that thing - bit scary the speed at which it came up behind me after I'd put my foot down :)
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A few days before Christmas I was overtaken by an artic on a downhill stretch of the A66 in Cumbria.
I reckon he was doing close to 70mph.
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>> I reckon he was doing close to 70mph.
Probably GB ;)
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>> Do truck drivers enjoy driving tractor units solo? I had one behind me once on
>> the A66. The hills didn't stop that thing - bit scary the speed at which
>> it came up behind me after I'd put my foot down :)
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Used to C, some of them would leave powerful cars standing, best with crash boxes with clutch brakes though, instant changes that gave them Scalextric like constant acceleration with old school unstrangled engines, the new ones are ok in top gear but you can't shift gears like you could and the new engines don't have instant power.
Trying to remember now, my old Cummins would run about 1150 lbs ft of torque at 1000rpm IIRC with 90% of torque from 800rpm, unit weighed about 7 tons, thats still some serious power to weight ratio, the MAN though less powerful (despite higher BHP) was very high revving for a truck Diesel, something like 2700rpm before the red line.
We didn't have legal speed limiters in those days either, if they were fitted by the maker they tended to go wrong..;)
EDIT.>> I reckon he was doing close to 70mph.
Probably GB ;)
Not guilty M'lud, as soon as these new things get to about 59mph you get a warning message up and infringements follow.
My mad days are over.
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Strange Car Finishes - Armel Coussine
