Re: Green Mopars. Is the hate still there?
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02/19/21 06:21 PM
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hosehead
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100 percent my favorite color. 65 d100 pine green 58 plymouth wagon misty green 66 dart KK1 turquoise(that counts, right?)
63 Plymouth savoy 65 d100 66 dart race project 58 plymouth suburban
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Re: Green Mopars. Is the hate still there?
[Re: hosehead]
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02/19/21 06:46 PM
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Rhinodart
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100 percent my favorite color. 65 d100 pine green 58 plymouth wagon misty green 66 dart KK1 turquoise(that counts, right?) KK1 is an awesome color, I like LL1 also...
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Re: Green Mopars. Is the hate still there?
[Re: hosehead]
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02/19/21 06:48 PM
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SattyNoCar
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It's not that I don't like the color, it's more like the color don't like me. Literally every car I've owned, that gave me a ton of problems or flat out tried to kill me was green. After my last bout of green, you will never see my name on the title of a green car, even if it has been repainted! Sure, other cars I've owned have had problems/issues, but never as bad as what the green cars dish out. I LOVE the look of a '70's B-body 4dr in green like DUFFMAN owns, but I'll never own one.
John
The dream is dead, long live the dream.......😥
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Re: Hate is the ugliest thing any person can possess..
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02/19/21 07:02 PM
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When I first got into Mopars at age 16, the Mopar guys loved them all, there were no color hating Mopar guys. Sadly a bad element has moved in. Negative comments about colors for that loser crowd all the time. They could gouge their eyes out OR learn to love Mopars of all colors. Variety is wonderful. Not sure if you are my age or not but in the 70's where I live you couldn't give a green mopar away. Passed on many RR's ,GTX, Cudas because they were green. When I worked at Summit Racing in 1987 I came across a 70 GTX 19k miles original motor full interior, no rust for $4500. It had been a race car only since1972. Problem was it was lime light or as we refered to it as monkey vomit green. I talked tomy brother who was the only one in the family that liked the color. He didn't have the money though. So I offered to loan it to him, we met the owner negotiated the price to $3500 and I loaned him the money. My interest for the loan was I got to use the engine in my Cuda. I raced that engine until 2001 when it split a cylinder. The engine needs one sleeve and a small repair to the pan rail. To this day I still don't regret passing on the car.
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Re: Green Mopars. Is the hate still there?
[Re: SattyNoCar]
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02/19/21 08:28 PM
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EV2RTSE
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I've heard that people who bought these cars in green and other earthtone colors new were maybe older in general. In the case of green maybe had a military background so more disciplined. Not talking about the high impact color greens. Between my younger brother and I we have 3 Challengers, two light green and one hemi-orange. When we got them the two green cars were relatively complete undisturbed, matching numbers engine & trans. The orange car despite being off the road since 1979 based on the inspection sticker was apparently beaten like the proverbial red-headed stepchild.
Overall I like green, I think a lot of people do but a lot of people don't. Last summer my brother finished his light green Challenger and took it to the Cars & Coffee at Raceway Park, someone filming caught him driving in and put the event on youtube - the comments I could hear were "Bad Ass, Alligator top..."
I was only born in '72 but based on all the cars my father and older brothers & sisters had back then, standard transportation C-bodies, 318 Darts, Lebarons, Aspens, and stuff, an awful lot were green, brown, gold. And I think a lot of the performance models that were originally these colors got changed over to red, orange, purple over the years. That or a whole lot of the high impact color cars died young and a lot more of the earthtone colors survived. Nowadays I tend to gravitate to the cars with the unique combinations of stripes, tops, and interiors. Something like a burnt orange Challenger with a hood blackout, white interior, and a go-mango tail stripe. Or a light green car with a white top and tan interior like the one that surfaced recently. Three color cars. Not many ordered them new but a few did.
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Re: Green Mopars. Is the hate still there?
[Re: EV2RTSE]
#2890773
02/19/21 09:12 PM
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Neil
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I agree that cars with boring colors tend to be found in better shape when talking about project cars. There also seem to be more of them left out there vs the hemi orange, red, black, ect. cars.
Some of that may be that the popular colored cars were found and restored first, and what is left are the "leftovers" so to speak.
It's kinda the same thing with manual 4 speed cars. When you see them as projects they are often abused like nobody's business. A column shift version of the same type of car has usually faired better.
Last edited by Neil; 02/19/21 09:13 PM.
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Re: Green Mopars. Is the hate still there?
[Re: Neil]
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02/19/21 09:30 PM
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Depends on the shade of the color.....Sassy Grass and Snakeskin are my favorite greens with Limelight close.
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Re: Green Mopars. Is the hate still there?
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02/19/21 10:08 PM
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Green looks just fine to me. Mine is FF4.
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Re: Green Mopars. Is the hate still there?
[Re: Moparnutcase]
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02/20/21 09:12 AM
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DAYCLONA
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Depends on the shade of the color.....Sassy Grass and Snakeskin are my favorite greens with Limelight close. Those 3 shades of green along with F6 get my vote as being very acceptable color choices on a Mopar, it's the F8 and lighter shades of drab green that seem to offer no attractiveness to a vehicle IMHO
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Re: Green Mopars. Is the hate still there?
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02/20/21 11:50 AM
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My love for Mopars began with my dad's green '73 Dart. LOVE green Mopars.
Facts are stubborn things.
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Re: Green Mopars. Is the hate still there?
[Re: Neil]
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02/21/21 11:52 AM
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When they are period correct, I love them. I love the browns too.
Facts are stubborn things.
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Re: Green Mopars. Is the hate still there?
[Re: larrymopar360]
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02/21/21 03:24 PM
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Kiddart
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I love my 2020 F8 1320 challenger, would not have liked it in any other color. love it or hate it, i love mine!!
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Thank you Kiddart
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Re: Green Mopars. Is the hate still there?
[Re: A12]
#2891708
02/21/21 10:11 PM
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I saw a new F8 Chubbenger the other day, it brought back those same green squeamish feelings of yesteryear.... Whew I know exactly what you mean about F8 Challengers ....................................................BTW what color is that DAYCLONA anyway Nothing wrong with that green on the new challengers IMHO!
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