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Title: what is your colour? Post by: nicolas on June 01, 2008, 16:42:54 pm i have been reading up in the belgian magazine called roadbookmagazine and they have some really nice articles about old and nostalgic cars. all the shots are B&W, but digital and they have some nice archiveprints as well.
i know very little about other makes, but since i read about all these classics, i have been wanting to know more about them. it is just nice to know what has been going on in motorsports in general. so i have read about the auto union typ A and found something that i liked a lot. seems that before the cars were painted in the colours of their sponsors, all cars were painted according to their nations colour. green = Great Brittan blue = France Red = Italy yellow = Belgium (so good choice again Roland ;D ) white = Germany so when the TYP A was build Ferdinand Porsche asked the federation of Germany if he could change the colour from white to metallic silver. the reason was to safe another few pounds of weight of the paint. the cars had to have a weight of minimum 750KG and he wanted that non the less. so his option was to leave the body in the original aluminium colour. so this car was just 750 KG without paint. afterwards there were of course the "silver arrow armada" that made german racers popular in grand prix races and le mans. so what colour is your car and to which country do you affiliate??? ;D Title: Re: what is your colour? Post by: jick on June 01, 2008, 17:52:59 pm green.... ;)
Title: Re: what is your colour? Post by: roland on June 01, 2008, 20:54:01 pm well it's not really on purpose but since i got the right color for my country, yay! ;D
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