Plum Crazy

Yes you can…

Buy a 2016 Challenger or Charger with purple paint. This is a real bonus for all of you Minnesota Vikings or Baltimore Ravens fans out there, and maybe a few others might like it. Anyone happy with this development?

It’s a great idea because Plum Crazy is one of several Mopar colors including Sublime Green and Hemi Orange that epitomized some Dodge and Plymouth muscle cars back in the day.

I liked the '70s colors back then and I still like them. We’ve had nothing but white, black, and grey for far too long.

“We’ve had nothing but white, black, and grey for far too long.”

That’s not true with all manufacturers.
When my friend bought his Scion last year, he wanted the Hot Lava color, which is a really nice dark bronze-orange color. The saleswoman’s response was…Yes, you and everyone else! Apparently all of the Hot Lava models had been snapped up before he got to the showroom, so he had to settle for silver-gray.

And, Subaru has had a bright orange color available on its Cross Trek models for a few years.

If you take a close look at my “ID photo”, you will see that my 2011 Outback is Sky Blue Metallic. I just couldn’t stand the thought of another silver-gray car!

I’ll wait and see how many Kansas Staters show up on the turnpike with this option.

Whatever happened to nicely done two toned car colors?

Two tone cars have to be sprayed twice. That costs twice as much as spraying the body one, or dipping it once. Actually, it probably costs more than twice as much since the first coat has to dry before it can be taped and the second coat applied.

I don’t remember the year or the color name but sometime in the early 60’s, I painted my winter bike that Chrysler purple color. I really liked it. I used my Mom’s Kirby vacuum spray attachment. She wasn’t too crazy about letting me paint with her precious vacuum but it was my first experience with a high volume low pressure sprayer and worked pretty well.

Back in late 1970…I painted my 57 Chevy Bel-Air “Plum Crazy Purple” at the behest of my girlfriend who is now my wife. Purple is still her favorite color. I guess I’m still her favorite guy because when she says “Jump”…I just ask “How high?”

Your a quick study @missileman.

@jtsanders Ah, hadn’t realized the cost of two toned paint. :frowning:

Note that chromed or stainless side trim, body side molding, etc has pretty much disappeared. That was often used to separate the colors on two-tone cars. It’s cheaper on the production line just to eliminate all of that and give almost everyone the same old bland colors.
Around here everything is silver or white it seems.

While this car is not mine I had a '69 Superbee in Spring Green identical to it at one time. An eye popper to say the least even at night under the streetlights.

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It seems plum crazy purple wasn’t available in 2015 but there should be enough purple used cars for those sports fans.

I miss the look of chrome trim. For dent protection in parking lots, I have added molding strips on the doors of all my cars. And I think they all have looked nicer too for having the body side molding.

@ok4450. Love that almost irridescent shade of green!

@Marnet. Believe it or not, I bought that green Superbee in 1974 with 40k miles it, just as clean as the one in the picture, and for the princely sum of 450 bucks; and yes it had a clean title and was not stolen. :smile:

STILL kind of kicking myself for trading it off.

I also had a '68 Roadrunner just like this one in a pretty color called B5 Blue.

https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=JN.yF3Fo2ke7CC8ZVCC01Ca1g&pid=15.1&P=0&w=300&h=300

Yep, still kicking self over that one too… :frowning:

The blue roadrunner is sharp too, especially with the blue stripe down the middle of the dark hood.

A car I used to see often some years ago was an unusual almost Day Glo yellow but unlike Day Glo truly pretty. It was a pale lemon yellow that literally irridesced a lime green from the right angle on sunny days. It darn near sparkled. Had to have been a custom paint job. It was a late 60s or early 70s full sized sport model but don’t recall which.

@ok4450 What make was the Superbee?

Edit: Never mind. Wikipedia tells all. Sort of. Says the Superbee was a Dodge.

From the photo you posted, it looks to have been mid to late 1960s model?

The Superbee was a 1969 model. I always wondered what happened to that car and there’s a possibility that I may have run across it about a dozen years ago. I was driving by a small strip mall that has a popular restaurant on one end and saw a pickup with a trailer sitting out along the edge of the street. On the trailer was what I swore was my green 'Bee.

I parked by it and got out to look it over and there were several things in my hazy memory that made me think it was my old one. The car had been to the drag races and had low 10 second marks on the windshield so someone would have had to have modified it to go that fast.

I sat around for 20 minutes waiting to see if the owner would appear so I could talk to them but finally had to leave because of time constraints and things I had to do.

The SuperBee and Roadrunner were essentially the same cars; just different body styles from different divisions of Chrysler.