Hi All,
just trying to pick a colour to respray my new mini!!!


thoughts so far are:
Candy apple red (dr pepper red for me):



or zen purple:



or a different shade of the exisiting blue with the white roof scheme

thoughts suggestions?

So you have a van now! Great news!

I reckon it looks really good in it's current colour scheme. But I am biased towards traditional colours.

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

That purple is terrible! Well, in the photos at least.
Candy red would look great, but cost a small gold mine.

I am very biased against any purples - for a while, a while back, it seemed that every respray of any car was a purple colour.

Mostly - no matter how well it was done - IMO it didn't suit the car.

Now I am biased towards traditional mini colours also but I respect that other people have the right to express their creative juices and with some of the better creative minis I have seen I grudgingly accept that they look good.

Never seen a good purple one though *s*

any suggestions for alternate colours?

thanks brett! yeah i found a little van in SA and flew down to see it...
it comes next week and i wanted to get it painted because the job the previous owner did wasn't the best.. it's got ripples down the sides from where different amounts of primer and undercoat were sprayed...

oh well done on finding the van!!
you even flew down to see it, now that is PASSION

hahaha
i think that the red looks great, but there are SOOO many red minis around..
the zen purple doesnt quite do it for me either.... sorry to disappoint
but thats only my 2c worth...


goodluck!!

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How about some some white stripes on the bonnet?




I like the old heritage colours: light grey or that really pale blue (almost white colour)

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Too many cars, and too little time.

hehe!

yeah id love to know what sort of traditional colours are out there that are a little more unusual...

or something like a deep emerald green or blue of some kind?

Indigo Blue's always been a personal favourite , very dark blue and it looks great on vans .....

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i'm a fan of surf blue. mmmmm....
there is a link somewhere on here that shows all the different colours mini have been produced in. Sure someone knows where it is
well done on the van too!

http://www.minicolours.co.uk/list.cgi?code=A

Not very complete though

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Roads need more corners
A Deluxe(CG13DE), 2 Clubbies(998 and 1275) and 2 Morris 1100Ss

Smoke Grey was the one I was thinking about (yes it is a Blue)


or Speedwell blue looks great on vans too

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Too many cars, and too little time.

I like this sort of blue, which is similar to what my van already is:



But have also been thinking of a golden yellow with white strips.

But I really like this too:

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"Life is not like a box of chocolates... it's more like a jar of jalapenos. Whatever you do today, may burn your arse tomorrow."

i painted mine in marine blue

Well,

I am in league with Betty...

I like the Candy Apple Red... But there are so many red mini's already out there!

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Baracade
Relationships! The only time you get to sleep with the enemy!
1972 US Export Moke in Bundaberg QLD