Best car color for county road dust

Cliff · #21 09/14/12, 07:55 AM

My last car cost $1000 (old Geo Metro that had almost 200k miles on it when bought) and has been going strong for about 6 years now with only some minor repairs. 40mpg is awesome and makes up some for the woeful mileage of the old farm truck.

The red color doesn't do well with dirt and goat hoof prints and scratches though. Oh well, it just needs to get me to work and back, don't really care what anyone thinks.

mnn2501 · #22 09/14/12, 08:28 AM

I have a tan truck (Ford calls it gold) that looks good and I only wash it once or twice a year.

OkieDavid · #23 09/14/12, 08:41 AM

I'm proud of my country road dust. To me it signifies an independant spirit not to be challenged and that I am dirt poor so there is no sense targeting me for robbery. Rain washes it a couple of times a year.

wharton · #24 09/14/12, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by RonM

I teach a driver safety and white is the safest color to buy, it is the easiest to keep clean also......

Never would of believed this, or owned a white vehicle until I needed a work van. As a family, we had every color of the rainbow so far, but I always avoided white. Dumb move on my part. Our white Chevy van is the easiest thing to keep presentable that I ever owned. It typically gets washed when it rains, hides all the little dents and scratches well, and nobody ever pulls out in front of me claiming that they didn't see it. We will be needing a pick up soon, and it will be white.

farminghandyman · #25 09/14/12, 09:14 AM

I wash my cars and trucks once a year whether they need it or not,

my light green actually does not show much, the black is bad on the S10 but it was free, and the white car does better than what one would think, but the trucks are a light jade and they really don't do to bad,

Nimrod · #26 09/14/12, 09:15 AM

In MN we find white cars in the ditch in the spring when the snow melts. Sometimes they are unoccupied.

old school · #27 09/14/12, 11:27 AM

I have a golden colored car and a charcoal colored truck and they both do very well between washings"1-3" years on the average.

whiterock · #28 09/14/12, 12:03 PM

I got a dark blue pickup that i some stimes hose off a bit. always looks dirty, when i bought it it was a rainy day and they told me to bring it back for a wash job, never did. got a white pickup, don't think it has been washed in almost 2 years, unless my dd washed it last summer when I was laid up. got a light green and sometimes looks silver in some light, that durn thing has to be washed everyother time i drive it to town, it looks filthy most of the time, the kids next to me throw up so much dust with 4 wheelers and dirt bikes, the car sits under the carport and never gets benefit of rain like the trucks do.
Ed

silverseeds · #29 09/14/12, 01:19 PM

I thought country road dust WAS a color???

I like to keep a good layer of dust, blocks the pain from UV rays.

Actually had a guy awhile back know precisely which road I lived on based on the color of the dust. Pretty impressive to me, lots of dirts roads in many directions here with shades of what look like the same color to my male eyes.

**Shrek** · #30 09/14/12, 01:33 PM

I have always preferred yellow oak, light brown or olive drab/ woods camo for my work and daily use trucks and vehicles to minimize required washings.

ErinP · #31 09/14/12, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Cliff

My last car cost $1000 (old Geo Metro that had almost 200k miles on it when bought) and has been going strong for about 6 years now with only some minor repairs. 40mpg is awesome and makes up some for the woeful mileage of the old farm truck.

I have one of those too.

(But I only paid $800 and it has 180K)
Mine's blue.
It always shows the dirt, but then, considering the big dent behind the driver's door that's rusting out, the tailpipe that's loose and the saggy radio antenna, I don't really care about something as inconsequential as dirt. lol

Our other car is silver and the pickup is white. I figure the fact that they show dirt is why I love to spend that $5 periodically and hose it off. They look so shiny and new!!

Ana Bluebird · #32 09/14/12, 02:42 PM

I usually have white, but bought a light grey this time and it's no good. White did better.

Ken Scharabok · #33 09/14/12, 03:13 PM

Bondo?

Paquebot · #34 09/14/12, 03:18 PM

My first car was a 1960 Ford Ranch Wagon in Desert Tan. Still had lots of limestone gravel roads then and that was the same color as the dust. Next car was a 1961 Ford Country Sedan in black. Every speck of road dust was visible on that one.

Martin

Ravenlost · #35 09/14/12, 08:43 PM

Nasty brown would probably be the best color for you.

Yvonne's hubby · #36 09/14/12, 09:24 PM

I used to have a 75 ford pickup that was sorta brown.. some kind of metallic, looked almost the color of an old penny. It always looked clean and three or four times it actually was!

cnsper · #37 09/14/12, 10:57 PM

Doesn't matter just let the dirt be. Just don't park it on a country road if you want to find it again...

a light brown is probably the best unless you have RED clay then nothing hides it.

Oh and if you drive faster then no one can tell it is dirty.

Oregon Julie · #38 09/14/12, 11:24 PM

I don't do silver or grey cars. I call them road colored and I think they are darn hard to see in certain lighting. Same goes for white since I live in an area that gets a decent amount of snow in the winter time. Being visible on the road is more important to me than if my rig looks clean or dirty. :-)

CountryWannabe · #39 09/15/12, 08:52 AM

Color is the LAST thing I consider when getting a replacement vehicle. Price, mileage, condition, are all a lot more important considerations.

Mary

chewie · #40 09/17/12, 10:04 AM

not maroon! my tahoe is maroon and it shows every spec. but really, whatever color the 'right' vehicle is that wont' need payments, that's the color of car I get!

as the old saying goes, no bad color for a good horse. you can turn it a bit and no bad color for a paid off ride!!