Snob boaters

[Athy]

30 minutes ago, doratheexplorer said:

  The original hairdressers car.

No, it's not nearly red enough.

[doratheexplorer]

12 minutes ago, Athy said:

No, it's not nearly red enough.

You mean white, surely?

[Athy]

3 hours ago, doratheexplorer said:

You mean white, surely?

Richard Ive, a car dealer and [road] hire fleet operator whom I knew during my Sussex days, used the term "hairdresser red" to denote a particularly garish and flamboyant shade of that colour. Whether he invented the expression I don't know. Ah, here comes one now.

Edited October 21, 2020 by Athy

[roland elsdon]

I thought Lancia. 

[Mad Harold]

Once saw an ad for a Trabant and the colour was described as  "Hearing Aid Beige"

[mark99]

4 minutes ago, Mad Harold said:

Once saw an ad for a Trabant and the colour was described as  "Hearing Aid Beige"

Pardon?

[MrsM]

51 minutes ago, Mad Harold said:

Once saw an ad for a Trabant and the colour was described as  "Hearing Aid Beige"

Isn't that a Farrow and Ball colour?

[Mad Harold]

17 minutes ago, MrsM said:

Isn't that a Farrow and Ball colour?

Never heard of Farrow and Ball,so I Googled them.A colossal range of colours,but no Hearing Aid Beige.

[Alan de Enfield]

1 hour ago, Mad Harold said:

Once saw an ad for a Trabant and the colour was described as  "Hearing Aid Beige"

Is that a similar colour to the (50 year ago) NHS glasses frames with an elostoplast holding the arm on ?

[mark99]

22 hours ago, Mad Harold said:

Never heard of Farrow and Ball,so I Googled them.A colossal range of colours,but no Hearing Aid Beige.

They are a posh brand. They do a beige but they would call it something like "tradesmans entrance door creme"

[Rob-M]

4 minutes ago, mark99 said:

They are a posh brand. They do a beige but they would call it something like "tradesmans entrance door creme"

The inside of our boat is painted in Farrow and Ball, can't remember what the colours are called though. It is often on sale in homebase and wife gets staff discount as well so didn't work out too pricey.

[mark99]

1 minute ago, Rob-M said:

The inside of our boat is painted in Farrow and Ball, can't remember what the colours are called though. It is often on sale in homebase and wife gets staff discount as well so didn't work out too pricey.

I bought some and coated some furniture. Seemed good quality with good film thickness.

[TheBiscuits]

10 minutes ago, mark99 said:

They are a posh brand. They do a beige but they would call it something like "tradesmans entrance door creme"

 

Don't be silly, that's far too descriptive for a F&B colour name.  It suggests a pale brown colour.

 

"Unicorn's Toenail" would be more like it ...

 

 

[wandering snail]

On 12/10/2020 at 17:12, ditchcrawler said:

My dad had a Skoda which I borrowed to go to Gloucester in. While I was there it snowed heavily. Easily matched the posh motors and more coming home on snow covered roads. Rear wheel drive with rear engine and not too much power it went bloody well

Passed a Ferrari in my 2CV uphill in the snow one winter. It was soooo good.

Edited October 22, 2020 by wandering snail

[Keeping Up]

4 minutes ago, wandering snail said:

Passed a Ferrari in my 2CV uphill in the snow one winter. It was soooo good.

I had a "highly tuned" Triumph GT6 in the 70s, I was going up a hill once when a 2CV passed me. I was amazed, because my foot was to the floor, until after it was ahead I could see the other 6 cylinders of a big American V8 hanging out of the back. But I bet it couldn't do corners as well as I could!.