Of plums and red wine (car connoisseur quiz)
01/23/2022
Some paint colors of classic cars have become so famous that enthusiasts recognize them at first glance. Muscle car fans will certainly have immediately identified the vibrant purple of the Dodge Challenger as "Plum Crazy". Mercedes enthusiasts will be just as quick to provide the matching color code 904 for a dark blue W124. And for Citroën DS drivers, the gray metallic on the Pallas model can only be "Gris Palladium".
But what if there is no bodywork to help with identification? Can a color be clearly identified purely by its color? That's what we wanted to know, so we collected a few known and a few unknown paint colors from the last 60 years and isolated them in the style of a manufacturer's color chart. The result is our most colorful car connoisseur quiz yet. Of course, we know that the colors look a little different depending on the screen calibration, so we don't ask for nuances. So you don't have to tell Chianti red from almandine red and calypso red or guess the composition of each.
