The Color Makes the Car

[Wayne Finch]

Article from Fridays newpaper about cars and color
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DODGE VIPER
Color to Avoid: Grey. An exoticar such as a Viper is an exaggeration on wheels. It has a V10 engine. It produces 500 hp. Its logo is a fang-toothed serpent ready to spring. And, suddenly, you want to tone things down by giving this ferocious beast a grey hide? Shame.

Color to Get: Blue with White Racing Stripes. Normally, two tone paint jobs seldom work - think of a too-dark toupee affixed to a pastey-hued cranium. But the Viper is a car detined to race and, as such, in-your-face racing stripe motif works superbly well.

 

[Andrew/USPWR]

Article from Fridays newpaper about cars and color
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Prepare to duck!

That's why I like gray & silver. Too tone down the already extravagant style and power image.

" a softer, gentler machine gun hand"

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[2002_Viper_GTS_ACR]

Article from Fridays newpaper about cars and color
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DODGE VIPER
Color to Avoid: Grey.

Yep, they are so right.

I am bias, I mean lets face it, I bought 2 grey vipers. But seriously, who considers this tone down? I actually think my Dads Black Viper is tone down compared to my grey one:

And my Favorite color, and I never owned it 2000 Grey

I REST MY CASE, THAT GUY CAN KISS MY GREY VIPER ***!

 

[rleminv]

Who the f said black is toned down?, I mean,... hey Jon. You're killing me. I like my black hot rod. So there!
Larry

 

[2002_Viper_GTS_ACR]

Who the f said black is toned down?, I mean,... hey Jon. You're killing me. I like my black hot rod. So there!
Larry

hahaha.. Larry... Larry... I said it, relative to the Grey Viper, and I bought both,(the black and the grey) so I think its ok for me to give an unbias opinion of which i think in that photo is "toned down" if I had to, thats all. Still friends

Jon

 

[PDCjonny]

And what car authority posted those observations, Ladies Home Journal?

 

[KMODStang]

And what car authority posted those observations, Ladies Home Journal? [/quote

hahaha...I personally LOVE the graphite gray color.

 

[cbarber]

Article from Fridays newpaper about cars and color
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Prepare to duck!

That's why I like gray & silver. Too tone down the already extravagant style and power image.

" a softer, gentler machine gun hand"

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Was there a Viper in that 2nd pic?
CB

 

[Andrew/USPWR]

Was there a Viper in that 2nd pic?
CB

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Too the left of her right ***
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2005 Silver SRT/10
2000 Steel Gray GTS (sold)

 

[V10SpeedLuvr]

I personally like silver and graphite Vipers. Even when they dont have hot blondes posing beside them. If graphite and silver are good enough for Andrew, they're good enough for anyone!

 

[Kaya]

Hehehe, I have to say I love the blue I have and wouldn't trade for slate or silver...but they are gorgeous colors and I don't think they diminish the car in any way. In fact I think the slate color on the Viper is much nicer than the silver on the new Z06.

 

[PatentLaw]

Color is obviously a personal matter. Why someone is coming out and saying that it is a "shame" is just plain wrong. Dark colors on curvy bodies always attract the eye. See ALL the pictures above.

 

[KWIK96]

Graphite with White stripes is superb, there is a nice one that sometimes turns up at Crystal Cove, gives me a soft on. But hey, I love em all.