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kiwighia68
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 Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:53 pm Post subject: What do these colours say about our Ghias? |
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Those who follow my thread (Saving Emiko) will know that I am at decision time with regard to colours and materials. By chance a friend who is writing a novel with colour as the central theme came by and she told me that colours have special meanings just as they have different wavelengths. Red, she said, had the longest wavelength. Every colour has positives and negatives, she said. I told her that we tended to make logical choices when we restore our Ghias. Then she really let me have it, detail-wise.
Red signifies energy, movement, ambition, determination and attention-getting. Its negatives are aggression, anger, ruthlessness. And the person whose favourite colour is red tends to be extroverted, optimistic, courageous and practical.
Blue is my favourite colour and it signifies trust, honesty, loyalty, sincerity and calm. Its negatives are rigidity, deceitfulness and self-righteousness, and those whose favourite colour blue is would then tend to be conservative, with a need for peace and quiet, a "rescuer who loves to be needed by others".
Brown is serious, down-to-earth, stable and structured, but on the negative side, dull, frugal and unsophisticated, yet people who favour brown are said to be steady and reliable, honest, genuine and with a keen sense of duty.
More colours tomorrow, if Sambanista are interested to know about orange, white and green. Silver and black to follow later.
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kiwighia68
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| Ooo can't wait for Black...but if there's anything negative attached to Black, I have to say I didn't really choose it...that's down to the original owner. :lol: |
You're going to have to wait, John, till last, since black is said to be a non-colour. (I don't like descriptions that define things by what they are not, but there you go.)
I have a few other Ghia colours to ask her about, malachite green, for example, which looks blue to me. But then, I have learned not to argue with a woman about colours.
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With pigment physics ie paints Black is the presence of ALL colors where as with the physics of light black is the absence of all colors.
So a Black Ghia would have to be ALL Meanings LOL |
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kiwighia68
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Maybe they took all the negative attributes to make a positive (assuming that there wasn't a spare negative floating without a mate around there).
I think John's worried about what the colour of his beloved Ghia is going to say about its owner - LOL.
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kiwighia68
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With pigment physics ie paints Black is the presence of ALL colors where as with the physics of light black is the absence of all colors.
So a Black Ghia would have to be ALL Meanings LOL |
Or none of them, if we go the physics route?
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It seems to me that in our daily lives we function by making compromises between what we know we HAVE to do and what we WANT to do. The head tells us what we have to do - duty, job, chores, responsibilities, follow the rules - while the heart drives what we want to do - play, work on our cars, drive fast, have a drink, make love. And so it is with the colours we choose for our Ghias.
The head says keep it original because that's where the value lies, and that way also recognises the intrinsic character of the Ghia as made. Some even say don't paint over still good original paint - patch up where you have to, but leave the original paint where you can. Patina is acceptable and may even be good.
But the heart likes colours that reflect our own personality, rather than that of our Ghias. So some of us would prefer (WANT) to paint our cars in our favourite colours.
And so our secret natures are revealed. Are you a head or heart kind of person? And if you're a heart kind of person, what does your favourite colour say about you?
More about colours later. Let me have you opinions (and confessions). :wink: :wink:
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kiwighia68
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OK set your intellect running on this one. :wink:
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The girl or the car?
Wasn't there a movie once (when we were young and our cars were new) called "The Story of Eve", about a woman with multiple and conflicting personalities?
Some people, like some of our Ghias, are simply beyond salvage.
But my guess about the owner of this beetle: happy, extroverted, attention-seeking, daring, lucky - he has a girl, doesn't he? I might even be jealous.
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I had a hearts and mind moment there, John. The mind had to concentrate on the car while the heart was looking at the girl. :D :D
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Orange is the colour of warmth, happiness, rejuvenation, combining the energy of red and the cheerfulness of yellow, its constituent components. Its negative side is represented by pessimism, overbearing attitude, exhibitionism. Those who choose orange as their favourite colour are said to be warm, social, friendly and extroverted to the point of being flamboyant.
So let me know what you think if you chose orange for your car.
Green symbolises harmony between reason and emotion, growth, balance, renewal and rebirth (quite appropriate when you are restoring a Ghia, don't you think?) Green combines the attributes of blue and yellow, its components. The negatives of green are possessiveness, materialism, selfishness and miserliness. People who choose green are usually stable, well-balanced, dispassionate and, loving good food, they find it hard to lose weight.
John Moxon says the colour of his car was chosen by the previous owner, but when he bought that car he chose it notwithstanding that it was black. My car was white when it left the factory, but the previous owner painted it malachite green. And I bought it knowing it had once been white. What do the choices that we make in such circumstances say about us? Would you buy a lilac car, or a pink one, or, for that matter, a malachite green or black one? If not, why not?
Yellow and grey tomorrow, and then Black and White.
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John Moxon says the colour of his car was chosen by the previous owner, but when he bought that car he chose it notwithstanding that it was black. |
Do I sense you're setting me up for the coup de grāce. :lol: |
Now why would I want to do that when I can make you suffer? And suffer. And suffer.
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| Whatever green says about the owner lizard green screams it. |
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Both of my Ghia cabs (70 and 74) were signal orange--I picked that color because I liked it and it is the most visible color for safety (you can see orange in your peripheral vision before blue, free and black) as these are small cars, I always worried someone might not see me along side and pull into me.
Of course that was all before cell phones and texting. Now when I drive my Ghia or my 356, or any car, I am constantly looking to see what drivers are on their phone or seem preoccupied (slowing down in traffic with their head down as if texting). In fact I pretty much stay off heavily trafficked roads.
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| Both of my Ghia cabs (70 and 74) were signal orange--I picked that color because I liked it and it is the most visible color for safety (you can see orange in your peripheral vision before blue, free and black) as these are small cars, I always worried someone might not see me along side and pull into me. |
"I liked it," is all you needed to say. I don't take the so-called psychology of colour' too seriously as I find that my preference changes with my mood, more or less as it does with my choice of music. I have no idea why I prefer blue to burgendy some times or Beethoven's piano concertos one day to Creedence Clearwater Revival the next.
I think we make our choices by logic some days and by passion on others. My son, who was keen on a silver metallic car, changed his mind abruptly when he nearly ran into one in thick mist. He swears it was invisible, so he bought a red car for visibility.
And don't get me started on pheromones, those subliminal smells that attract us to some people (girls)and not others.
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