David Jenkins
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| posted on 19/4/06 at 12:34 PM |
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Dodgy paint job! (anyone from here?)
While driving down to Wales last Thursday, I spotted a seven-style car - probably a Westfield - in Bicester. It looked nicely built, but the paint
job was something else! Imagine painting 4"/100mm squares on the diagonal across the whole car, each in a different colour - sort of a harlequin
effect. I couldn't get a photo as I was driving at the time.
The overall effect was like that 'dazzle' camouflage paint they used on warships in WW2. It was very hard to register the shape as a car
when glancing around the traffic!
Might be a bit counter-productive in a car that's easily squashed...
David
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Fozzie
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| posted on 19/4/06 at 12:59 PM |
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David, in my photo archive, there is a section called Brize, look for Brize J. Is that it? The location you give sounds as though it could be! No,
nowt to do with me, but it was at the Brize Norton show last year! 
Fozzie 
'Racing is Life!...anything before or after is just waiting'....Steve McQueen
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jonno
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| posted on 19/4/06 at 01:02 PM |
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Did it look like this ??
http://www.chiltern7s.com/
 
Rescued attachment Mark Purves.JPG
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jonno
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| posted on 19/4/06 at 01:06 PM |
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oops too slow again 
btw ntdwm !
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Fozzie
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| posted on 19/4/06 at 01:06 PM |
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Thats the car in me archive (at Brize Norton)!
Fozzie
'Racing is Life!...anything before or after is just waiting'....Steve McQueen
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 19/4/06 at 01:13 PM |
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I don't think that is the same car (e.g. no spoiler, and I don't remember seeing red edges to the wings) but the same sort of paint
job.
Very hard to register its shape in busy traffic!
David
[Edited on 19/4/06 by David Jenkins]
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ayoungman
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| posted on 19/4/06 at 01:58 PM |
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I quite like it !
"just like that !"
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 19/4/06 at 02:07 PM |
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Don't get me wrong - the colours & pattern are amazing - it's just that it's very effective camouflage and could get the car
squished!
David
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ned
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| posted on 19/4/06 at 02:58 PM |
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surely there can't be more than one car with a hideous paint job like that out there?
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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emsfactory
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| posted on 19/4/06 at 03:56 PM |
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Are you sure that isn't just grannies quilt lying over a westfield to keep it warm?
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DaveFJ
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| posted on 19/4/06 at 04:17 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by ayoungman
I quite like it !
hmmm would go nicely with your pink chassis.....
Dave
"In Support of Help the Heroes" - Always
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ayoungman
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| posted on 19/4/06 at 04:55 PM |
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At the moment, I've got a yellow body tub, blue bonnet and red nose cone, oh and the pink chassis. I don't think that the Harlequin paint
job would make it any worse !
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 19/4/06 at 05:02 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by jonno
Did it look like this ??
http://www.chiltern7s.com/
Ive met that lad....he has a matching shirt and tie that goes with the vinyl job.
He says it gets up the caterham boys noses a little bit..... Top man good sense of humour.
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