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◊ 2012-12-13 21:06 |
![[Image: bp.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/12988/bp.jpg) Filmed in the Western Isles and Highlands of Scotland. ![[Image: end1.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/12988/end1.jpg) |
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◊ 2022-10-30 21:35 |
Improved screen captures and three vehicles added. Background vehicles... ![[Image: bridal001816.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/558/bridal001816.jpg) Another Sam Kidd (uncredited) movie seen briefly in a night-time scene (01:17:51). |
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◊ 2022-10-31 14:27 |
Just a random musing about car paints which slightly puzzles me sometimes. During 1950s, black was very common colour in UK, maybe even the most common colour in period films/docs?? But by early-mid 60s, became much less common and in many cases a special order-only choice. I've got a slight memory from when I was a peedie nipper of a conversation with my dad when we came across a black Imp that he said something along the lines of black being a difficult pigment to manufacture to the same hardness/surface durablility against scratches etc and more difficult to repair than other colours, so most manufacturers dropped it from the colour charts. This lasted through the 70s and possibly into the 80s. Maybe also a consumer choice factor as well - folk just didn't want black cars any more?? Noted that some 1950s poverty versions (eg Hillman Minx Special) were only available in black. From a different perspective Corgi Vanguards have in the last couple of years released a couple of black mid-70s Ford diecasts (Cortina Mk3 2000E, Escort Mk2 Mexico) with specific blurb about the actual cars modelled, both restored survivors selected from owner club events. Both histories state these black liveries were special orders from the factory when new. So was black a more difficult and/or softer paint to explain its rarity until more recent revival? Is the issue now resolved so black is just as durable/resilient as other colours?? |
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◊ 2022-10-31 17:04 |
I have owned three black cars in my 55 years of motoring, the 1953 Ford Popular, and the 1954 Austin Cambridge (no surprises there, then) and my 1986 Ford Escort 1.6 Ghia. The Escort did not seem any more prone to scratching or scuffing than my mother’s 1983 Escort 1.6 Ghia in Caspian Blue. Neither did it seem any worse than any of the cars that I had in that era. Both the Escorts were bought new, so received similar treatment in terms of washing, Simonizing and so on. Most cars on sale in U.K. now seem to offer white, blue and red as flat colours in the list price, black at a premium, and then metallic, lacquered or whatever else at an even bigger premium. I think, therefore, that a lot of this is just hype. Certainly the early black cellulose sprayed finishes were originally spoken of as the only hue that would dry quickly enough in the factories’ spray plants, but that era didn’t last long. In respect of durability, some of the expensive metallic finishes of the late 60s used to drop off the cars in chunks, I seem to recall Fords as being prime culprits. -- Last edit: 2022-10-31 17:26:54 |
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