1955 Chrysler C-300 - Platinum - fvl

On my iMac this car looks a very delicate shade of light green. It's a
lovely colour but I thought they were only white, red, or black in 1955.

Max

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> On my iMac this car looks a very delicate shade of light green. It's a
> lovely colour but I thought they were only white, red, or black in 1955.

Max I've not been able to verify the color offerings available on a C-300 in
'55 but I won't argue against white, red, or black. What I *will* argue
about is the difinition of "white".

What exactly is white? There must be a couple of hundred shades of white.
I agree this particular "white" (they called it platinum) has a slight
greenish cast to it. But I remember as a kid seeing exactly that shade on
some new C-300's.

I went to the Autocolor Library and found listings for all 1955 Chryslers.
There was no separate listing for C-300's. All were lumped into one group.
There does indeed appear to be a whitish-greenish shade offered by the
factory that year.

http://www.tcpglobal.com/autocolorli...ysler-pg01.jpg

I was also able to locate a VERY poor quality factory picture of the C-300's
and the one in the middle appears to possibly be a whitish green.

I agree this is not conclusive but the word white should in some cases not
be interpreted literally.
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Pat

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> http://www.tcpglobal.com/autocolorli...ysler-pg01.jpg
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> I was also able to locate a VERY poor quality factory picture of the
> C-300's and the one in the middle appears to possibly be a whitish green.
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> I agree this is not conclusive but the word white should in some cases not
> be interpreted literally.

I'll add that I also recall seeing numerous '57 model 300's that were closer
to what you'd call a pure white, although I believe they also had a tiny
amount of black mixed in to cut down the brilliance level from snow white to
merely white.
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Pat

I agree. I guess I should simply have asked if anyone else was seeing the
same green cast on that car. If not, it's a setting on my iMac; if so, it's
fine. I had a Nissan Maxima in pearl that had a definite green cast to it
and it looked beautiful in the light. I was really asking about whether I
was seeing what everyone else was also seeing. The iMac is so much brighter
than my previous monitor and the colours are so much more vivid that I just
wondered, that's all.

max

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> "Max Magister" > wrote in message
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>> On my iMac this car looks a very delicate shade of light green. It's a
>> lovely colour but I thought they were only white, red, or black in 1955.
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> Max I've not been able to verify the color offerings available on a C-300
> in '55 but I won't argue against white, red, or black. What I *will*
> argue about is the difinition of "white".
>
> What exactly is white? There must be a couple of hundred shades of white.
> I agree this particular "white" (they called it platinum) has a slight
> greenish cast to it. But I remember as a kid seeing exactly that shade on
> some new C-300's.
>
> I went to the Autocolor Library and found listings for all 1955 Chryslers.
> There was no separate listing for C-300's. All were lumped into one
> group. There does indeed appear to be a whitish-greenish shade offered by
> the factory that year.
>
> http://www.tcpglobal.com/autocolorli...ysler-pg01.jpg
>
> I was also able to locate a VERY poor quality factory picture of the
> C-300's and the one in the middle appears to possibly be a whitish green.
>
> I agree this is not conclusive but the word white should in some cases not
> be interpreted literally.
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> Pat
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"Max Magister" > wrote in message
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>I agree. I guess I should simply have asked if anyone else was seeing the
> same green cast on that car.

It had a green cast in my shots from '06 also.

I remember that one, thinking that if I was going to show my car I'd at
least clean the mud off the whitewalls. But now I see the same green cast
so I'm pretty sure that my computer's set properly and I'm seeing the
colours that I'm supposed to see. Thanks, Z.

max

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> "Max Magister" > wrote in message
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>>I agree. I guess I should simply have asked if anyone else was seeing the
>> same green cast on that car.
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> It had a green cast in my shots from '06 also.
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I vaguely recall it raining before this show in Placentia. He probably hit a
mud hole in that park - maybe even getting stuck with the mud covering the
whole whitewall - and didn't have access to a hose out there.

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Z~

On 12-Dec-2009, "Max Magister" > wrote:

> I remember that one, thinking that if I was going to show my car I'd at
> least clean the mud off the whitewalls. But now I see the same green cast
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> so I'm pretty sure that my computer's set properly and I'm seeing the
> colours that I'm supposed to see. Thanks, Z.
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> max
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> > "Max Magister" > wrote in message
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> >>I agree. I guess I should simply have asked if anyone else was seeing
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> >> same green cast on that car.
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> > It had a green cast in my shots from '06 also.
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