BS: Two-tone cars

Subject: BS: Two-tone cars
From: frogprince
Date: 26 Sep 10 - 09:55 PM

What happened to 'em? Is it as simple as the fact that it would take an extra bucks labor to put them out? Has everyones taste actually changed to where they wouldn't sell now? Would you buy this , or this If it were available?

My only two tone was a clapped out '53 Ford Victoria, black with white top. Not a spectacular example. There are a couple of two tone '55 or '56 Fords around town that still look great. Who likes two tones? What's your favorite?

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: bobad
Date: 26 Sep 10 - 10:21 PM

The first, and only, new car my father ever bought was a 1955 two tone Buick Special like this one which was comprised of the colors of the flag of Poland in honour of his Polish heritage.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Sep 10 - 10:24 PM

I used to have a car that was blue and rust....

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Sep 10 - 10:37 PM

They might still sell well. If I were Chevy I'd pop out a retro tutone (remember that spelling?) in THIS big selling two-tone.


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: bobad
Date: 26 Sep 10 - 10:41 PM

Love those colours Spaw, they also look fine in 1950's era bathroom decor.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Slag
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 03:01 AM

They're still around some. New ones at that. Black and white with a highpowered lightshow on top!

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 07:22 AM

I once saw an all white Triumph Herald and once an all blue one but all the others were two tone. Red and white was common (like my Dad's) as was "conifer and cactus" (like my Uncle's).

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 09:21 AM

Well, yeah... Cars used to have "style".. No more... They are all designed like bubbles... No crome down the sides to create a break for two-tonin'...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: frogprince
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 09:45 AM

But there are a number of current models that have lines shaped in that could lend themselves to natural color divides. I see custom paint jobs around with good clean color divides somewhere on a plain surface, so it can be done; but it may take skilled, painstaking work that the automakers don't want to get into on a regular basis.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 12:26 PM

With the weak car market, I think the manufacturers would be skittish about creating too many "special" items that might not sell well. Now if you wanted to have a special order car with a two-tone paint job, and prepaid for the car, or at least partially prepaid, you might get one.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 12:58 PM

The very best is tutone. You have to go to the top of the line to get those two-color with chrome. The traditional black and silver, gray and silver, etc. of the 1920s.

Bugatti
Bugatti

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 01:03 PM

Wait for that white bar to develop at the Bugatti link.

They are planning a four-door model for the average family man.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: frogprince
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 02:41 PM

"for the average family man"
Well, yes, if you averaged our income, and Bill Gates income, I guess that would average out to someone who could afford one no problem. : )

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: gnu
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 02:59 PM

Holy cow. I like the pylon cornering.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 03:43 PM

Heck, what's so special about two-tone cars? Bubba has two of 'em. 'Course they wuz both one-tones 'til they got wrecked an' Bubba went scroungin' fer body parts down at the junkyard. Now his blue truck has one red fender and his wife's white Camaro has a green driver's side door. He swears he's gonna paint 'em some day. I'll believe that when I see it.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Edthefolkie
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 03:45 PM

Huh, all that VW technology and it can't even do this...

a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhuEoX_y0qY&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhuEoX_y0qY&feature=related

I must admit I never tried it with mine!

Sorry chaps, back to two tone cars

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Edthefolkie
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 03:47 PM

Let's try that again.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhuEoX_y0qY&feature=related<

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 05:32 PM

Well, I once had a four-tone car: Red door, green hood, blue car with a mustard-yellow trunk lid. Paid $50 for it, and never did get around to having it painted. Very useful for bluffing BMWs in crowded lane merges.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: gnu
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 05:41 PM

I had a black over silver 1998 Ford Fi50 extended cab 4X4. It was pretty (which I couldn't have cared less about, really). I have a 2010 THE SAME COLOURS and it's pretty. It ain't really a tutone, but I really like it on accounta I don't have to spend so much money in repairs to keep it on the road... fer now.

I did have a tutone Chev once... maroon and primer. Well, threetone if ya count the fibreglass.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: GUEST,Bizibod
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 06:09 PM

Saw a black and yellow 2CV once, absolute beauty.
Sort of reminiscent of a ripening banana.....

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: EBarnacle
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 06:50 PM

That thing with the rear wheel off is not a canard. I once did it on my way home from Maine in a '65 Citroen ID. I had a blowout at the intersection of 91 and 95 and pulled over. I did not realize until then how clapped out the car was. Not only was the underside too rotten for the jack but the spare tire was dead. I stacked up a mess of stuff with the car elevated, retracted the wheel, removed the dead tire and wheel, reraised the car, removed the blocking and drove home. Fortunately, the car belonged to the dealership and not me. [I was their sales manager at the time.] One of the many things which made me appreciate the beauty of Citroen automobiles.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Jack Campin
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 07:07 PM

I now can't get the tune of "Tan Shoes With Pink Shoelaces" out of my head.

Anybody got the words?

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Ed T
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 07:32 PM

The honda (Acura) NSX 1990-2005 was a two tone.


Honda NSX

http://wapedia.mobi/en/Acura_NSX

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email)
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 07:40 PM

I owned a Ford Zephyr Mark II, Black and duck egg blue. A beautiful car, bought it new. Before that I had a Morris Oxford Series IV Estate, green with Blue trim. Soft engines yes, but style and comfort second to none.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: frogprince
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 07:44 PM

A contrasting roof does legitimately make a car two tone, but those pictures remind me that when I think of two tone, I generally picture color areas divided by chrome strips, as Bobert referred to earlier, or by something like sculpted creases.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Ed T
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 07:45 PM

What about this one? Like it?

2010 2-tone pink camaro

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Ed T
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 07:47 PM

Some discussion on the topic:
Hooniverse

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: frogprince
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 08:10 PM

Ed, while I don't know that I would buy pink for myself, I think that Camaro looks great; it's just the sort of thing I had in mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: frogprince
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 11:44 PM

If you all will just take up a collection to help me pay for it, I'll get my old Focus painted like this .

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Slag
Date: 28 Sep 10 - 04:01 AM

"He's got tan shoes with pink shoelaces
A polka dot tie and man oh man
He's got tan shoes with pink shoelaces
And a big Panama with a purple hat band!"

That's the chorus!

"Pink and purple" or "purple with yellow polka dots" used to be thee phrase for gauche.

"Two tone baby with the fluid drive!" That was also a phrase you could hear quite often when I was a kid. The hydrmatic transmission was a big deal back then.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Newport Boy
Date: 28 Sep 10 - 12:33 PM

Our friend still has a VW Harlequin

My wife likes it - she can find it in the car park.

Phil

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: ranger1
Date: 28 Sep 10 - 01:24 PM

I'm with Bobert on this one, chrome is needed.

Although, I suppose my Subaru Outback might be considered two-tone...

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Sep 10 - 01:27 PM

LOL Newport Boy; but, you're hereby banned from my thread! This is about TWO toned cars!
Actually I love that; it's so wild, it would take a certain type of personality to buy one.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Newport Boy
Date: 29 Sep 10 - 07:16 AM

I don't know about personality - it just took a good discount!

Phil

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Sep 10 - 06:55 PM

Nissan makes some

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: frogprince
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 11:45 AM

Maybe I started this thread because I was on the verge of realizing that I had a deep-seated need to do THIS .
Anyhow, I did it, and I'm glad, so there!

Whic wheel covers style works for you?

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Becca72
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 11:58 AM

The only tutone car I ever owned: I had one just like this

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 12:20 PM

mine is two tone now. like this one.

Subject: Tri-color
From: Tiger
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 01:20 PM

We had one of THESE ('56 Dodge Lancer)

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 01:24 PM

Nice.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: gnu
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 01:45 PM

froggy... I like the chrome.

Why not green on bottom? What's red and green and goes 100mph? >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 01:46 PM

Jean Cretian in a blender?

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Gurney
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 09:42 PM

And white-wall tyres, too.

The only two-tone I coveted was a Jaguar show-car. An E-Type, dark blue on top and silver on the bottom. The difference was that it FADED from one colour to the other. It looked like a shark.

Hate to try to get it repainted after some toad keyed it.....

I once saw a paisley-patterned Mini.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: frogprince
Date: 06 Aug 11 - 09:20 AM

freshen

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 06 Aug 11 - 10:30 AM

I have always (well, for the last few years anyway :-) ) fancied a Nissan Figaro. Economical (1L engine - 3 speed auto) all mod cons - CD player, AirCon. modern gear etc. Built in the 1980s based on the old Micra but looking a lot older.

Maybe when I don't need to haul around 3 tons of shopping every saturday. And maybe not the pink one...

:DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 06 Aug 11 - 01:04 PM

not to mention white sidewalls

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Aug 11 - 01:04 PM

Two-tone indeed.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 06 Aug 11 - 01:44 PM

That is not the dumbest thing I have ever seen. But the real boob is behind the wheel.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Aug 11 - 02:12 PM

You never heard of a car bra before?

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 06 Aug 11 - 02:15 PM

Yes, I have. LOL!!! That car needs two!

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Aug 11 - 02:20 PM

Good one, Jack.

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: frogprince
Date: 06 Aug 11 - 03:09 PM

Dang, 999, why couldn't you have posted that before I spent good money to get my jalopy painted? now I want one like that!

Subject: RE: BS: Two-tone cars
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Aug 11 - 03:47 PM

My first car was a 1951 Chevy, similar in 2-tone green colors. I drove it from summer '57 to 1962, and could have nursed it longer if I had known how to coax more life from the generator by banging on it with a big wrench.