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My 61 came to me in Honduras Maroon with Ermine White coves, but my favorite color is the Jewel Blue. I could never 'get behind' Fawn Beige - purely personal preferences...
That's OK, Frankie - love ya anyway. Car color is such a personal and subjective thing - as my grandfather used to say, "It's a good thing we all like different things, or every guy would be after your grandmother . . ."
One of the reasons I love Fawn Beige so much is that it changes color so dramatically in different light. The photo above and this one below are both my 1962. Same car, different lighting conditions.
That's OK, Frankie - love ya anyway. Car color is such a personal and subjective thing - as my grandfather used to say, "It's a good thing we all like different things, or every guy would be after your grandmother . . ."
One of the reasons I love Fawn Beige so much is that it changes color so dramatically in different light. The photo above and this one below are both my 1962. Same car, different lighting conditions.
I'm prob a bit prejudiced as the first late C1 I remember seeing as a youngster was Jewel Blue... I remember the color and the racket the car made going by me. Compared to every other car of the time it might as well have been a spaceship passing by me... I think the word 'thunderstruck' applies here.
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Agreed. Can't go wrong with a '61.
I like every stock color on '53-'67 Corvettes. The neat thing about all of the metallic colors is their ability to look different in every kind of light. My black '57 doesn't exactly do that.
I'm prob a bit prejudiced as the first late C1 I remember seeing as a youngster was Jewel Blue... I remember the color and the racket the car made going by me. Compared to every other car of the time it might as well have been a spaceship passing by me... I think the word 'thunderstruck' applies here.
30 years ago a kid saw me rumble by in my Montero Red '66 GTO and many years later, said that was the seminal moment that he knew he would someday own and drive a Montero Red, black interior, 4 speed '66 GTO. It took him 25 years, but he's driving it now. I was totally 'over' red and didn't want another red car after I sold my GTO in 1990.....and I certainly didn't want a 'Red Corvette'. Well, that's what I stumbled across, and the Roman Red with the red interior was too much to resist. I really like it. My 85 year old mother LOVES it. She calls it 'Lipstick Red'. My ultimate C1 color scheme is black, silver coves, red interior. But I'll keep driving my red '61 as-is for now.
The fawn beige defines the era as an old fashioned color. It screams the 1960s, which is what a 61 is about.
Almond beige, like the 62 color offered on earlier two tone chevs and that bright blue metallic from 58 would have been nice options for 61. Other 57 chev colors and variants would have been a great fit, especially that root beer color.
12-09-2017, 09:56 PM
