How will people think about colors in 20 or 30 years?
08/29/2016
The British Car Meeting at Mollis Airport brings together cars from all eras every year. The common denominator is that they must have been produced in the United Kingdom. This also applies to the modern Morgan sports cars, and as we studied the vehicles, we were surprised at how little color modern Morgan buyers indulge in.
Four or five decades earlier, the world was much more colorful, as the Daimler SP 250 or Triumph TR6 lined up clearly proved.
And today's classic car buyers apparently have no problem with colorful cars; at any rate, few would think of repainting their blue MG or yellow Triumph in anthracite or silver metallic.
But what will it be like in 20 or 30 years' time, when today's new car buyers, who never experienced the colorful era themselves, become classic car collectors? Will they, like the Morgan new car owners of today, gravitate towards white, silver, gray or black? Or will color be one of the unique selling points that will make classic cars so special in the future?
