With all due respect to Michael and the other members here, I think you're wrong.
You need to look at it from a standpoint of other than what sells cars today.
Would that color, or what I've got (Ash Gold), be a death wish for a new car today? Yes, I think it would, and for the reasons that Michael states. But if you look at it from the standpoint of the type of people buying the classic cars today, the motivation is quite different. First of all,
anyone buying a classic today has just shown that they're far from meek or plain. The object itself defies that label. On the other hand, a new car in Mist Green would scream that the owner was afraid of their own shadow.
When you take into account that red Chevelles are reproducing like rabbits (example: 30% of the past 2 years of TC Feature Cars are a shade of red), someone with an "odd" color such as Mist Green will stand out like a sore thumb. It's a color that most people haven't seen, and as such, will take notice of. It says that the owner has some originality and isn't one of those people who think that all fast cars have to be red.
Personally, I would spend much longer looking over a Mist Green Chevelle with a set of Centerline Autodrags than I would looking at one of the seemingly thousands of red with black stripe and chrome Crager SS cars out there.
Now, before anyone with a red car gets their shop rags in a bunch and fires off a heated reply, let me say that I know I've made some very general comments here, and it certainly wasn't my intent to upset anyone. I just think that in
this context, an off color like Mist Green has a totally different effect than what Michael pointed out.
Kurt (ready to be nailed by someone with a red chevelle
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[This message has been edited by Byfield (edited 10-19-99).]