… and yet I was able to order a blue color that I liked for my last two cars…
No lie. I had a white minivan years ago. It was my winter beater, so I never washed it because I just didn’t care. Still looked white after years of neglect. Meanwhile, don’t even get me started on black, which looks dirty about half a second after you wash it.
On current car colors, I have to say that Mazda’s new blue and especially red are pretty spectacular.
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The only white car I ever had was my 61 Corvair. It didn’t show dirt or salt but it did show rust.
But looks great when clean!.. for 1/2 second
We’ve had several black cars. I learned to buff, polish and detail on those cars!
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My grandfather had a brown and yellow car in the 50’s. I really liked it and got me to collecting bumblebee marbles. I have no idea of the make or model, if you do let me know! If I recall correctly the brown was on the rear 1/4 panel
Our 57 Ford was black on the bottom and top and yellow on the upper body. It was a great color combination. Now there also was a brown and yellow 57 Ford in town in the same configuration. I always thought the black looked better though than the brown.
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Those colors were very common on Pontiac and Chevy, particularly around 1953 and 1954.
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Absolutely!
Back in 1957, if you had a difficult time with the multiple colors and color combinations offered by most manufacturers, the Studebaker Scotsman only offered three solid colors: 1) green; 2) gray; 3) blue.
We may not realize how colorful cars were before WWII, because of all the old B&W movies and photos. They had LOTS of colors, some of the luxury cars had crazy color combinations.
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Are they still doing those? My wife drank the Mary Kay Kool Aid 20+ years ago and spent over a year at it. At that time it was a red Grand Am, a pink Grand Prix, or a pink Cadillac depending on your sales and recruitment. She never got past her blue Escort.
They still are, you’re not allowed to keep the car with the pink paint after the lease is up so they get repainted in another color at the end. I’ve seen the paint code in a PPG book though.
I still think they look like they’re coated in pink dismal Pepto Bismal. 
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That’s a fair description, more of a marketing tool for the company since the employee still has to make a lease payment every month.
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What year/model Hudson is that? I had two Hudsons in the 50’s, neither looked anything like this photo.
It’s a '56 model.
I think that the '57 model–the last one–was essentially the same.
After the merger of Hudson and Nash, creating American Motors in 1955, the Hudsons ceased to look like the ones that you had in the early '50s. The '55, '56, and '57 Hudsons were built on the Nash chassis with a different front “clip”, and they retained a few mechanical differences from the Nash.
By '57, the sales figures were so miniscule that the Hudson ceased to exist, and American Motors concentrated on building only Rambler models.
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GOSH , I remembermy dads black olds rockt 88 - glossy black and red velour interior. His last car was chocolate and brown velour… My pet peeve is here in Florida , just try to find a light color interior. It costs NOTHING to add a few different colors. Light green , drag green , chocolate and mocha interiors etc.
In 1957, I was in high school (Catholic) and we had a day off because of a “holy day.” I went to school that day (public school) with a friend from work. We were usherettes. Her friend, Craig, was going to drive us to her house after school. He apologized that he’d be driving his father’s limo. LIMO! It was some 40s model. We girls sat in the back and talked to him through a funny microphone. He explained they had traded in HIS car for a new Corvette. When the car arrived, the colors were WRONG! I don’t know which way they were supposed to be…but if it was a red exterior and a white INTERIOR…the opposite was sent.
He was embarrassed to use the limo while waiting for the exchange. That was Craig Pease, son of Phoenix’ first (and only… for decades…credit dentist). West Phoenix High School.
My understanding is the dealers keep on their lots the cars that most people want. If this is true, then I’d guess most people prefer white, silver, gray or black cars. Personally, I’ve always preferred white cars and trucks (yes, I’m a boring person), the exception being a car like the Chrysler 300, which looks like a gangster’s car to me and should only be in black (it should also have rear suicide doors; that would be a trip to Kindig-it-Design or Foose). If I can get my health and financial issues sorted out I’m considering buying a Sunday car (because I can). Being a fan of the old cult movie Vanishing Point (1971 Berry Newman version, not the 1997 Viggo Mortensen version), it would be a new Dodge Challenger in white, with the R/T striping (and the base 5.7L Hemi and 6 speed manual - did I mention I’m a boring person?).