More Cool Car Paint Colour Names

How could I have forgotten 'Plum Crazy'?

It was a Chrysler colour back in the late '60s - early '70s, above on a 1970 Dodge Challenger.

It was resurrected for the new-generation Challenger in 2009.

Why should I not have forgotten Plum Crazy? Because that was the colour I painted my race car - a 1964 Austin Mini Cooper 997 - in its second year of racing.

That was (a) before I upgraded it to a 1293 Cooper S, and (b) before I wrapped it up into a tight little ball at Turn Nine at Mosport. 

Wish I had a decent photo of that car, before or after the crash.

But I digress...

Among some of the other great ChryCo paint names:

Sublime

Go Mango

Sassy Grass

In Violet

Tor-Red

Ford apparently had some classics other than 'Thanks Vermillion', including:

Original Cinnamon

Bring 'Em Back Olive

Three-Putt Green

Last Stand Custard

There She Blue

Good Clean Fawn

History Onyx (that one took me a while...)

There have also been many suggested over the years which didn't make the cut, most of which I cannot mention in a family newspaper/blog.

But how about:

Gang Green

In The Buff

What A Maroon

I Cannot Tell a Lilac

And one with some social commentary:

Augusta National Country Club Membership White

And a favourite of car reviewers everywhere:

Arrest Me Red