80s nostalgia.. Multi coloured cars making a comeback?.

Jimmy Garlic · 20-09-2011 9:14am #1

I finally put a silver passenger door on my green avensis a couple of weeks back. It is a real head turner now. Back in the 80s nobody would have batted an eyelid. I feel like an art student.

ondeball · 20-09-2011 9:15am

Used to love the Brown Ford Escorts at home. Complete metallic blue and then a glaring red door.

God be with the days.

unkel · 20-09-2011 9:49am

It's less than 20 years ago that there were plenty of cars driving around with actual rust holes in the panels

Rat look

Tabnabs · 20-09-2011 9:55am

I see a high spec Hungarian reg BMW driving around that's yellow and black. That owner thinks he stands out too. He does...

Jimmy Garlic · 20-09-2011 9:59am

unkel wrote: »

It's less than 20 years ago that there were plenty of cars driving around with actual rust holes in the panels

Rat look

Mine isn't a rat rod, I might have to wait a few more years for that.. The missus keeps telling me to get rid of it, her all fancy in her 05 golf. The old TD avensis was one of the last epic cars. An indestructobus

Henry Ford III · 20-09-2011 10:13am

VW made a Polo Harlequin as below. Very understated.

V Eight · 20-09-2011 11:08am

Tabnabs wrote: »

I see a high spec Hungarian reg BMW driving around that's yellow and black. That owner thinks he stands out too. He does...

yeah I saw that in Lucan (Unless theres more than one yellow and black 5 series) - Looks like a Spanish taxi.....

MugMugs · 20-09-2011 12:12pm

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Mine isn't a rat rod, I might have to wait a few more years for that.. The missus keeps telling me to get rid of it, her all fancy in her 05 golf. The old TD avensis was one of the last epic cars. An indestructobus

No point talking about it.

Show us your 80's retro rocker !

KTRIC · 20-09-2011 12:52pm

That Polo Harlequin is kick ass

colm_mcm · 20-09-2011 6:02pm

I had a black bonnet 10 years ago, way before they bacame fashionable!

bazz26 · 20-09-2011 9:25pm

The Japs were mad into two tone colours in the 1980s, mostly reserved for top spec models.

Lasted into the mid 1990s with Lexus:

colm_mcm · 20-09-2011 9:40pm

That's a toyota Aristo though

Berty · 20-09-2011 9:41pm

Volvo C-30

But, OP, I know what you are getting at. Tough times. Some do it out of necessity and some do it because they are too cheap and lazy to get it sprayed.