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How much does colour affect value
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 9:23 am
by dave.sellers
Apologies if I offend any purists but does a non-standard colour significantly affect the value do you think?
I'm not talking about anything lary, I quite fancy that metallic grey you sometimes see e-types in but if it knocks £5k off the value I'll stick to red!
Cheers
Dave
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 10:08 pm
by garyv8tiger
its your car paint it what colour you like .everyone starts off wanting everything as it left the factory .it didnt work then and still dosnt .i think if you used a daft colour it would limit your market .but some new modern colours look great .
go for it
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 9:39 am
by dave.sellers
Cheers Gary, maybe that metal-flake tangerine with the pink leather interior then...
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 11:31 pm
by garyv8tiger
i have one i fancy doing it orange
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 11:59 pm
by meadowhog
Green , green, green, green, green, BRG or forest green its my favouite and original on mine. Red is SSSOOOOOOOO yesturday.
TBH met grey is my current fav but it is of the moment.
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 5:29 am
by Mal
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 9:38 am
by Ash
You could paint it Rootes colour 130 Gunmetal Metallic Grey as it was availible at the end of Alpine SV Tiger MK1A production?
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 10:22 am
by maxtwee
mine started life sky blue but the original owner changed it to silver when it was restored. I really like it like this and wouldn't go back to blue.
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 12:13 pm
by dave.sellers
Ash, that's a nice idea to use a pukkah rootes colour - now, if I could just find a picture of one in that colour....
Cheers
Dave
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 4:10 pm
by Ash
Nice tiger in gunmetal grey. Maybe a modern colour tho?
This is a SV Alpine badged as a Tiger and looks to be the correct gunmetal grey. Great with red interior!
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Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 4:19 pm
by dave.sellers
Thanks for those, food for thought....
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 5:41 pm
by martin172
The average age of Tiger owners is probably 50 to 55 years old so we're all going blind, losing our marbles and have probably never seen a gunmetal grey Tiger before so just use a grey you like and no-one will care or be any the wiser.
Fellas
Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 4:11 pm
by Warren
When you are a old fart driving a red car is problematic. Resale red as we used to call it in my other wheeled hobbies.
A MK2 owner is probably the real guy painted into a corner possibly stuck with Carnival orange I mean red and those vinyl stripes.
Of course it would be easier if painting cars were less expensive.
There used to be a crazy colonist, Earl Shieb. "I will paint any ca any color for 29.95," Then it went to 39.95 then 69.95........
Hey if anyone is in Hull and can send me a round Tiger sticker about 3'' or the size of the CAT club one I will paypay you some pesos lira or lbs.
Posted: Sat May 25, 2013 6:33 am
by gvickery
