It’s been raining a lot in California, a rare occurrence, keeping us from tinkering with actual cars in the driveway. But like a junkie, we’re going through withdrawal. We tried hitting up the local Target for Hot Wheels but there was nothing to buy. What should we try next, binge-playing Gran Turismo, building a Tamiya kit, or just standing outside in the rain like a serial killer and watching the water bead on cera-coated paint?
How do you satisfy your car addiction when you can’t access your actual car?
The most entertaining comment by next week will receive a prize. Scroll down to see the winner of last week’s QotW, “Which JNC looks most proper in orange?“.
When we asked the question we proclaimed that it was only really the 70s and a brief period in the early 2000s where orange was popular. This would seem to be true for James and Ginkei Garage, both of whom chose Imola Orange Pearl from that era’s Honda NSX.
More modern machines include Marcos‘ suggestion of the 30th Anniversary ND Miata’s Racing Orange, or Ian G.‘s nomination of the Scion FR-S’s Hot Lava. Ian G. also mentioned a car/color combo we have never seen in person, the AW11 MR2’s Orange Pearl.
Answers that are not conventional cars in the buyable-from-dealership sense but are glaringly obvious once mentioned include Franxou‘s pick of the legendary Mazda 787B, Jim Klein‘s choice of the Mazda RX-500 concept, and エーイダン‘s Toyota Dyna road works truck.
Of course, there were those like 4non and Dimitry Mochkin who believed that any and every car could look good in orange, though that wasn’t the original question.
In the 70s orange was the hero color of many models. Prime examples include Nigel‘s answer of a Mitsubishi Galant GTO, TheJWT‘s Isuzu Bellet, Taylor C.‘s Nissan S30 Z, Land Ark‘s Datsun 620, and mangocast‘s Honda Civic RS.
But even when it wasn’t the brochure hue, it just looked right on cars like Negishi no Keibajo‘s Honda Z600, Ian N.‘s Honda 1300 Coupe, Joaquin‘s Mazda RX-3, and Kyuusha Corner‘s C210 Skyline, and KiKiIchiban‘s Datsun 510.
The winner this week was EbolaWorks, who won the week with his heartfelt story. We hope you can do it!
918 Mexican Orange on a Datsun 510 wagon will always be my favorite. There’s a nice older couple who have ’70 down the road from me, rotting under a tree. They said they bought it brand new, and both their kids and their kids’ kids learned to drive in it. If there is one car on this earth I’d save above all others, it’d be that one.
Omedetou, your comment has earned you a set of decals from the JNC Shop!
Although the Toyota supra is way out of my price range, I did acquire a 1992 Lexus SC300. The journalists of the day actually liked the SC300 which was offered with a five speed and a lighter weight than the SC400 V8. Being 85 years old now, I became addicted to the Lexus SC430 for the luxuriousness, and so I traded-in my SC300 for the SC430, a low mileage stormy granite mica with “real” walnut wood trimmed and camel leather interior. The freeway performance is amazing, and the 25 MPG is the same as my 1992 Miata. My collection of 1:18 models of my Miata and Lexus SC430 occupy my moment when it is too rainy to play with my real toys outside.