Thursday, December 11, 2025

the fun paint names from Mopar and Ford



Anti-EstablishMint
 Counter-Revolutionary Red
 Hulla Blue
 Original Cinnamon
 Fruedian Gilt
 Thanks Vermillion
 Lone O ranger (Orange) 
 Lettuce alone
 Strike me pink
 Purr Pull


Some model A paint names that make no damn sense, maybe they did to the insider intelligencia at Ford paint code chemistry (effing dull scientists with their latin! Uggg!) 

Menelous Orange
 Pegex Orange
 Runelite Red
 Chicle drab
 Copra drab 
 Kewanee green

 There are SO many more, but not as much fun, I posted them https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-model-t-had-about-10-colors-to.html

Names of colors that they passed on: Nine colors that were rejected, "Catch Me Copper", "Unforseeable Fuicha", "Statutory Grape", "Gang Green", "Well Red", "Cost Of Living Rose", "Fisher Body Rust", "Hi Ho Silver", "Frank Lloyd White".






Chrysler’s High Impact Paints were available from 1969 through 1973 and included ten new colors that only set customers back an extra $15

Specific twist to one color name, Go Mango, it's not to be pronounced as the fruit, but instead as Go Man Go! 

In the past decade, in the effort to attract customers to buy into the retro-muscle car marketing of the Hemi, the Hell Cat, and the Demon, they brought back fun to the paint names too:  Furious Fuchsia,  Green With Envy,   Pitch Black,  Redline 


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