Which Of These Is Closest To The Color Of Your Car?

[arwalden]

Poll question: Which Of These Is Closest To The Color Of Your Car?

(... or your van, truck, motorbike.)

[CO Liberal]

1. I Picked "Dirt/Mud"...

...because you didn't have a selection for light brown. And that's what color my Chevy S10 is.

[arwalden]

7. Duh.... I Forgot Brown. It's Fixed.

[Worst Username Ever]

2. Maroon/bergundy, so I chose red.

[lpbk2713]

5. Likewise.

Kind of a dark shade of red.

[auburngrad82]

22. Same here, or as I call it "repug red"

But mine's better than a repug truck because I haven't washed it in 5 years. Three more payments and all that dirt's mine...

[LSdemocrat]

23. Mine's maroon, closer to blue

[GOPisEvil]

3. Silver with a light coating of road grime.

:-)

[VelmaD]

4. My car is a little ray of sunshine

Bright yellow...like pac-man. :)

[liberal N proud]

6. The color bars for the selections are tricky

say milk, milk, milk

Now, What do cows drink?








Water!

[arwalden]

11. I Read Something Similar In Scientific American...

there was an experiment of some sort that required people to read out loud a printed list of color names.

When the color names were printed in black ink, the participants had no trouble reading them.

But when the color names were printed in a color OTHER than what the text read, the participants would eventually "read" out loud the ink color, instead of what the text actually was.

[Worst Username Ever]

16. stroop effect

http://www.apa.org/science/stroop.html

[liberal N proud]

17. I have seen an email floating around that had that experiment

Yes it is hard when the colors are different than the word.

[Beware the Beast Man]

8. my car is "emerald pearl"- one of those trick colors.

Looks blue some of the time and green other times.

[mwdem]

9. Black, but dusty, I'm in Kansas!

[Zuni]

34. All we are is dust in the wind....

by Kansas. Dust and Kansas made me think of that song.

[mwdem]

39. the song says it all.

[CaliVoter]

10. Other

My paint shade is called "Iris," sort of a misty purplish grayish bluish shade.

[arwalden]

12. That's A Distant Cousin Of "Blue"

[Tikki]

13. Closest to white...our little truck..

We, also, have a 1957 Studebaker Hawk that is painted stock turquoise.

[InvisibleTouch]

14. Soundwave Blue...

...for anyone who gets that reference. ;) And my dream is to have it painted some day with a "starfield" effect ... stars and galaxies and nebulae against that deep blue background.

One of the things I find disproportionately depressing, are boring, ugly, neutral colors on cars. You couldn't give me a beige/putty/gray/brown/white vehicle. Well, you could ... but it would be on Ebay in about 5 minutes. Hey, and then I could pay for that starfield paint job.... :)

[ronnykmarshall]

15. This answer question?

[pagerbear]

42. It answers lots of questions!

[Rjnerd]

18. Of course my bicycles are a different story...

I have one unpainted steel (one of these years, when I am sure I am done making frame changes...) One unpainted aluminum (didn't build that one, came that way, since it is rectangular sections, I want to paint it faux marble, for the cognitive dissonance it would induce) One is retroreflective sign paint over nickel plating (my commuting special), and one is painted a dark blue fade, with bright yellow seats. Oh yea, the junker that I use to teach emergency techniques, is mostly blue with some silver spray paint spatter. (the frame, and all but the tires came from "curb depot")

[hunter]

19. The color never really mattered...

It's the lichens and dirt that are interesting. (I do clean the windows and mirrors.)

[ironflange]

20. My van is black

With Platinum top and bottom. We also have one white and one gorgeous dark blue.

[Phillycat]

21. Filth, with grime interior.

[arwalden]

26. Oily-Filth, Muddy-Filth, or Dusty-Filth?

Crusty-grime, or sticky-grime?

[Phillycat]

27. I believe it's a crusty-filth exterior, with sticky grime interior.

But I'd have to check my owner's manual.

[arwalden]

29. Oh! That sounds divine! Just lovely! But...

... do you have any melted crayons on the seats or cigarette burns in the carpets?

[Phillycat]

35. Cig burns on the SEATS! And the remainder of a chocolate

muffin ground into the carpet approximately 6 months ago.

I don't know why, but my house is spotless and my car is disgusting. I rarely drive, so maybe that's it.

[damntexdem]

24. Actually, inferno red.

When we walked into the dealership, we were asked what kind of car we were looking for. I said 'red.'

But our older car is 'midnight blue.'

[flygal]

25. Grey

[lakemonster11]

43. Mine too.

[Madame X]

28. I think it's red and white

Though it really looks like a brownish orange with a slight hint of gray.

[arwalden]

30. I'm Imagining The Starsky & Hutch Car... Is That Close?

[Madame X]

32. I wish

Though I can't imagine the reaction I'd get if I hopped into my car in a pair of Daisy Dukes. :scared:

[AlCzervik]

31. Honda Redondo red with gray interior.

[Zuni]

33. Black paint, with thick coat of dust and mud splatterings around the tires

the mud from when I was trying to do a three point turn in the small 'hamlet' of Bumfuck and almost flipped my car over on a hillside.

There is an interesting collection of knicknacks, including a shovel, a yellow bedsheet and an old television (really) inside it.

[billyskank]

36. Silver

and, for no reason at all, here's what it looks like:

[Left Is Write]

37. Blue. My car is blue.

It's called "Denim Blue," bu it looks nothing like denim to me. It's a metallic light-medium-ish blue. It's a nice blue. Not my favorite blue, but it will do.

(BTW, it's a 2003 Toyota Sienna if anyone is REALLY interested in looking up the color.)

[Neoma]

38. Smurf Blue

[CO Liberal]

40. How Many Smurfs Did It Take To Paint Your Car??

One coat or two?

:-)

This is the DU member still known as CO Liberal.

[Kellanved]

41. err - pink -metallic

I prefer to call it a lightish-red.

[VOX]

44. Plain old hi-yo Silver...

Not a lot to choose from these days...:(