Re: IML: Green cars and how to deal with them

["JIM LORENZEN" <jdlpdx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What ever else may be said about me, no one can say that when I kick over a 
can of worms, it's not the biggest can in range.
Not being sure what greens we were talking about, I went to the '72 site on 
the list and looked up the options.
Actually, I like the green of the interiors offered for '72, but I 
appreciate your problem with the exterior choices.
The F3 Amber Sherwood Metallic might be a little too much of the same and 
the F7 Sherwood Green Metallic doesn't really come across on my monitor well 
enough to say one way or the other (I haven't gotten around to changing the 
color cartridges in my printer so that's no help).
If you want to stick with stock colors the Y4 Honeydew would work as would 
the Y8 Gold Leaf Metallic.
If you don't mind fudging on the year there is the 1970 Jade Green Metallic 
that would look great.  I know a little about this combo as my dad was a 
travelling salesman who put between 65,000 and 75,000 miles a year on a car 
and who delighted in special ordering a new car every September.  In 
September of '69 he was dealing with the local Imperial Dealer for a '70. 
They hadn't quite sealed the deal but were so close that the dealer sent the 
order in anyway.  I was home the weekend that the '70 came in and I went to 
the dealer with my dad in the '69 to check out the new car.  It was that 
dark green with a lighter green interior and I thought it was great.  The 
colors really worked.
We wound up not getting the car, by the way.  My dad and the dealer were $50 
apart and neither would budge.  My dad wouldn't because he could be a very 
stubborn man, and the dealer wouldn't because he still had my dad's '68 
sitting on his used car lot from the trade the year before (that was the 
time when the Feds really cracked down on odometer tampering).
Life being strange, he went to the next dealer down the street and bought a 
Buick off the showroom floor.
That being said, I'd vote for either the Dark Jade or the gold.

Jim L. in OR
   '60 Crown 4dr Southampton
   '62 Crown 4dr Southampton

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenyon Wills" <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 6:02 PM
Subject: IML: Green cars and how to deal with them


> > That's a nice '69 - though if I had repainted it I
> > would have chosen a color that didn't clash with
> > that particular shade of green interior.
> > Just my two cents -
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> > Jim L. in OR
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> OK, so YOUR'E the color expert, eh?  I'll call you
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> I'm facing the same problem on my green coupe, but I'm
> not yet committed to a color.
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> My interior is even nastier - it's 1972 Avocado Green
> - you know, the color they were doing appliances and
> everything else in that year?
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> http://imperialclub.com/Yr/1972/Wills/
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> SO, Riddle me this, Batman:
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> > > > What color doesn't clash with a green interior?<<<
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> I don't want to redo my car's interior, and frankly,
> I'm finding myself of limited imagination as to what
> would work besides stock.  Coupes are scarce enough
> that beggars can't be choosers, and I'm already
> committed to the car at this point.
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> I am too lazy and cheap after all that I've done so
> far.
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> Options I see:
> Bright lime green (can't beat them, so join them)
> Stock Green - Ugh.
> Semi-Gloss Black - too "hot rod" esqe?
> Gloss Black - Kinda conservative?
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> Silver/aluminum - but that interior is still green.
> Paint dash black and install black seats that I have?
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> I really want the reflections that you see in those
> photos at the top, so stock green or black might be
> the only way to do that?
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