Would car color keep you from buying a otherwise beautiful car ?
Went to lunch yesterday with a buddy (Culvers, I love Butter Burgers ) when we pulled into the parking lot there was a very nice 64 Impala Super Sport complete with the Super Sport spinner hubcaps, Just one problem at least for me, it was yellow !! kind of a butter yellow. Now yellow seems to work just fine for some cars it just doesn't seem to work on a 64 Super sport. I have a friend with a 66 Impala it's yellow with a black vinyl top and I like it, I see plenty of yellow cars that it seems to work just fine just not on that 64 !! so much so that if I were looking for a 64 super sport if it were yellow I would have to pass, red, black, white just not yellow . I'm sure it was the factory color.
If you found a car that checked all your boxes would you pass on it because of color or learn to live with it ?
Truth be told I was not fond of the Tropical green portion of my Olds but it is the factory color and it grew on me and it turns heads.
P/S before stumbling on my Olds I looked at a very nice 66 LeMans it was the same color yellow as this 64 SS it had a black vinyl top also, I almost pulled the trigger on it ( yellow seemed to work on it) but then I found my Olds
so again would you pass just because of color ?

 

You better believe it does.

As an example I will not even consider, much less own, another white, black, silver or any shade of gray vehicle. I'm sick of those colors, but looks like those are all new car dealers will order for lot stock. Around here anyway.

Not crazy about most shades of red either. Bright red doesn't work for many cars in my eyes, especially if it doesn't have the right bright trim accents. Otherwise it looks like a fleet order fire department car.

Factory black trim accents just look cheap. Murdered-out black or monochrome? Spare me.🙄

 

I would say absolutely it does. Not to pick on yellow but sometimes it just doesn't work. I talked to a guy yesterday by my house in a super nice 52 Chevy. Very nice car. The bright yellow lost me. Non factory colors just push me away. Even if the factory color is not what I would choose I would take whatever factory color over non factory. Look how many people here hate on factory green A body's. Green is one of my favorites on an A body. We all have our tastes and opinions I guess.

 

If you bought a car and didn't like the color and I mean really didn't like it, you would never be pleased with the car and enjoy it. I remember yellow was very popular on 64 Chevys and I had a friend that bought a brand new yellow SS in 64.

 

Same for me. Friend of mine bought a butternut? yellow 64 327 four speed new. I honestly didn't care for the color as a kid but I appreciate it more now.

 

A little side bar to my original post and hating on green ! While I was dating my wife her 65 Ford custom 500 she bought from her brother took a crap, it so happened that one of the younger guys I worked with (tire buster/ l.O.F guy) was selling a 64 Impala Super Sport, kind of a strange car who ever ordered it must have only been interested in the SS trim because it was a 283 2bbl with single exhaust, had the bucket seats , 2 speed power slide, had the spinner hub caps all the SS goodies except for the power train, anyway I saw the car every day and knew it was reliable transportation and encouraged my wife to buy it (we lived in Illinois at the time and it was a California car) she bought it
and we drove that car for about 7 years until we moved to AZ. it was a great car, any way when I asked the kid why he was selling it he said
"look at it, I cant pick up chicks in a car that color" It had been repainted to a kind of spilt pea soup green, not real attractive but my wife didnt care she just needed transportation and she got one of the best cars she ever owned !! the kid wound up buying a 68 impala white, I don't know if his chick pick up ratio improved or not.

 

My friend that bought the yellow SS bought a 300hp 327 with a 4-speed with black interior.

 

The pale yellows of the 60's cars I like, even the darker Sebring yellow of 1970. I like the pale yellows as well on late 40's early 50's Buicks or Packard, preferably a convertible But it depends on the car. I don't care for yellow on modern cars, just doesn't look right. Not a big fan of white w/black or white interiors, just boring. went to a car show yesterday, and there was a white '70 442 with the dark green interior, did not care for it. But, I like the Aspen green paint of 1970. My favorites of the 60's early 70's, shades of blue, particularly with white interior.

 

For sure that colors matter on value. I usually stick with blue, burgundy and beige/gold. We bought our first "grey" (satin steel" car but we have all of the chrome and polished wheels, it actually goes very well!

 

What I dislike are the "easter egg colors" so favored by the street rod crowd.
I think they look especially ridiculous on the 30's and 40's cars.

 

I like yellow cars. The first Olds I bought was a 68 442 yellow, which I ordered. My older brother asked me, was that the only color they had? Years ago. I had a BB 70 Vette. When I tried to sell it, with a speciatly cars sales, it did not sell right away. I was nice car, and they said, if it was red or black, it would have been gone. This was years ago, when paint jobs were reasonable, they all most talked me into painting it. Finally sold, got about 3K less then I planed.

 

For me it would have be purple.

 

I was mostly referring to classics or hot rods but I'm sure color matters on new cars as well, the days of ordering cars is long gone (however I understand it can still be done ) 98% of the time people take what's on the lot.
When I bought my 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee I bought it because it had the equipment package I was looking for, it just happened to be black
I would not buy a black vehicle again, it looks fantastic when its clean as all black cars do but maint. wise it's a pain, it shows dust 1 hour after its washed, it shows every paint nick and scratch and with the hard water in PHX you better be quick at drying it because it water spots really bad !! I know white is boring as hell but its a great low maint paint color choice I have had two white vehicles ( my every day vehicles) and they are great !! I sure wish I could have found a white Jeep with the equip I wanted.

 

Plus black is one hot some B in the summer. My 442 sucked to drive in the summer. Black seats cooked you all day. 455 ran at 210-220 always. Cruising at night was perfect. I love a white car. If I ordered a 70 W-30 new it would have been white. No top.Black stripes. White interior car. No wing. Oh wait I will get more hate mail.

 

I don’t care for the”battleship gray” that Chrysler offers today. I seriously doubt I would ever own a car that has that color.

There are colors that look good on some cars, but not others. I have no desire to ever own another black car. I loved the 87 442 I had years ago, other than it was such a pain to keep clean. It didn’t help that my body man friend who painted the car blocked and primed the car 3 times, it had paint so slick a fly couldn’t land on it without slipping off. It was absolutely gorgeous after a good detailing, for about 20 minutes. Just long enough for dust to settle on it.

Id still love to have that car again.

 

There was a guy on here a while back that had a 70 442 painted Plum Crazy Purple, ordered by the dealership owner for his own use I believe, and he had the paperwork to back up the special order Chrysler paint. He was wanting to paint it a different color because he thought the purple would detract from its value.

I would say in that case a color change would hurt the value, unless you lost the paperwork never spoke of the purple again, because it had the - - on the cowl tag, it could have been anything. I sure hope he didn't change the color.

 

Color is like the blond and redhead thing, everybody sees something different'. I changed the color on the mistress from a factory off-white greenish tint to its factory red and white color it has now, best move that I did ever.

I had a used car salesman tell me once, keep a car that you don't like the color of for three weeks, and you won't think anymore about it forever. Keep in mind, he was a used car salesman... Tedd

 

Color is a huge difference maker. Painting cars is neither easy or cheap.
My most often used saying at a car show seems to be "nice car, too bad it's red". I can appreciate a nice burgandy maybe but in general red is a complete deal breaker for me.
Obviously not for everyone. That's Ok by me - keep the green cars cheaper!

 

The majority of the cars going down the Toyota lines are black, white or pearl, silver. You see dark blue and dark red sometimes. Rarely a dark green. Some other cars can get bright red or bright blue. We don't do yellow, purple, and very rarely do brown.

Mentioned above are the non-metallic flake paints that are coming back, like on 50s cars, or on early 70s Mopar. We have a light blue, an orange, a gray, a tan, a green and others. The tan and green vehicles look military, the gray looks like it's in primer, and the blue and orange look effeminate.

I think a car should be its factory color. Red is overdone. Bright cars also attract cops more if you are speeding because you are easier to notice.