On the subject of colors as an organizing principle (from the Rétromobile Paris)
There are supposed to be people who arrange their books in the rack according to color. So red books are next to red books, gray volumes are together and green book spines are next to each other. The same organizing principle can of course also be applied to cars, if you have enough of them available. Here it makes even more sense to sort by color, because the origin of the car often determines the customer's preferred color.
For example, Italians were and are often red, as in the picture above, which shows two Ferrari/Dino, but also several Maserati, for which the red color was not necessarily the most popular.
Nor were the majority of Ferraris silver-colored, as this picture seems to suggest.
English cars, however, were often preferred by customers in green.
But of course there were exceptions here too, as this S.S. 100 2 1/2 Litre clearly proves.
At Porsche, it can and could be really colorful.
However, if you "look back" a little further, the colors fit better with flags and racing liveries, as the Corvette and the Porsche 356 prove.
P.S. The photos were all taken at the Artcurial exhibition, by the way. Some of the cars were auctioned off yesterday, but some will also go under the hammer this afternoon. And if you would like to see even more atmospheric pictures from the Rétromobile Paris 2025 , please refer to our small collection of pictures that we have already published. Of course, comprehensive reports from the trade fair and the Artcurial auction will follow shortly.
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