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Club G40 => General Car Chat => Topic started by: si polo coupe on January 16, 2016, 06:12:50 pm

Title: Colours
Post by: si polo coupe on January 16, 2016, 06:12:50 pm

Evening guy and girls, i have had a quick look around here, but was wandering does anyone know how many G40's came in the different colours. As there must be alot more red ones compared to capri green.

Title: Re: Colours
Post by: quiksilver_jake on January 18, 2016, 01:12:07 pm

List them and we'll find out?

Red
Winsor Blue
White
Black
Capri Green
montana green ?
Genesis Purple
Grey

any more or any more name corrections/ additions ?

Title: Re: Colours
Post by: ereeiz on January 18, 2016, 02:18:09 pm

Think Helios blue was available on them. There's a dark blue, a purpley blue and a light blue (although unsure about the light blue being a G40 option).

Title: Re: Colours
Post by: Jester on January 18, 2016, 06:23:08 pm

Metallic Royal Blue - LA5U

I thought there were two reds, but might be wrong.. maybe G40's only came in Tornado Red  :-\

Tornado Red - LY3D
Flash Red - LP3G

Suppose at the time red will off been seen as more 'sporty'.. and I believe metallic paints such as capri green will of cost quite a bit more which explains the contrast in quantity of colors around.

Title: Re: Colours
Post by: rml2711 on January 23, 2016, 07:44:18 pm

I reckon the least often seen colour for UK G40's is probably Maritime blue...it's a dark solid colour,i've seen on just one late G40.
Other markets had some colours we never had.
Brilliant Black metallic.
Calypso metallic. (Greeny-silver)
Silver metallic.

Don't forget however that you could special order any colour...might be some really unusual colours out there somewhere.

Title: Re: Colours
Post by: kwijibo_coupe on January 23, 2016, 10:57:28 pm

The G40 was an expensive car as it is. So I doubt there will be many that did want to make it even more expensive with a special colour.

Title: Re: Colours
Post by: rml2711 on January 24, 2016, 07:29:46 am

Expensive in the UK,yes. But I suspect,not quite so much in the rest of europe. I imagine this is why european models are often higher specced, heated seats, headlight washers,tinted glass, leather steering wheels are often seen on the continent, but rare here.

Title: Re: Colours
Post by: Jester on January 24, 2016, 10:11:59 am

There was a genuine silver metallic one G40 on the German ebay for quite some time priced at around 5000 euro I think.

Like rml2711 said I bet there's some special ones out there hidden!

Title: Re: Colours
Post by: SamG40 on January 24, 2016, 10:25:13 am

Montana green

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y238/baldwins/Picture099.jpg)