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Old 31 March 2003, 04:33 PM
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In my Family as long for as I can remember, I have always been told that green cars are unlucky.
Thinking it was unique to my family I asked a few other peps if they had heard of so called unlucky green for cars.
Quite a few said yes.

If Green cars are unlucky why did Britain take on the Racing Green as its colour?

Has Green been an unlucky colour for you or are there any other colours that are considered Unlucky???
Old 31 March 2003, 04:43 PM
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My missus had a green 106 that was surprisingly difficult to sell for this exact reason.

For my own perspective the only *unlucky* cars I have ever had have been yellow.

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Old 31 March 2003, 04:45 PM
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For some reason my Great Nan won't have green in her house

Maybe she's just senile
Old 31 March 2003, 04:45 PM
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Yes!

I have had 2 light green (pepperminty) cars, and both have developed stupid annoying problems, but seemed fine when I test drove the ******* [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

It's not very relaxing driving down the motorway shouting at your car cause it keeps falling to bits

My next car is gonna be purple & orange. Will gloss paint stick in wet weather?
Old 31 March 2003, 04:49 PM
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I dont buy green cars due to my old man he had two greens cars and were both difficult to sell and very unreliable. Dont really like green cars anyway.
Old 31 March 2003, 05:10 PM
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Nope. Its just an ugly colour for a car..
Old 31 March 2003, 05:21 PM
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My mother and grandmother both believed green cars were unlucky. I can remember my mother being horified to discover that the metallic yellowish Datsun Cherry she'd just bought was actually "Mustard Green"!

A friend wouldn't even get into a green car because she thought they were unlucky.
Old 31 March 2003, 05:28 PM
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You know you love it Kat

Just imagine it with red mudflaps
Old 31 March 2003, 05:29 PM
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Had one green car Vaxhall Magnun (not the lolly) for you youngers here its was like a old viva with slight diff styling and a 2.3 litre lump in
Had all sorts of trouble with it another green car your aving a laugh NO fanks

Old 31 March 2003, 05:43 PM
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You know you love it Kat

Just imagine it with red mudflaps
Nope. It'll still be ugly..




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Old 31 March 2003, 06:16 PM
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Seen as "luck" does not exist, how can a car be "un-lucky" just because the pigments in the paint reflect light of a certain frequency into your eyes ?

Old 31 March 2003, 06:21 PM
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Green sucks
Old 31 March 2003, 08:03 PM
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.......which probably explains why I can't sell my frickin' car.
Old 31 March 2003, 08:38 PM
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Is green an unlucky colour for a car?
No. That'd be white you're thinking of.
Old 31 March 2003, 10:40 PM
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My families always said to me never buy a green car. So what do i go and do ? Youve got it went and bought a green fessy si when i was 18. Only had it 11 hours and totalled it.

Then a couple of years back i bought a green calibra turbo i had it 6 weeks and some crazy women in a bloody metro drove straight into it in a car park. She caused 6 grandsworth of damage.

So yes green is unlucky well to me. Thank god my cosssie was grey and my scoobs red lol.

Old 01 April 2003, 06:01 AM
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I would never have a green car because I also believe they are unlucky.
Old 01 April 2003, 06:36 AM
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I wonder if you believe that somethings unlucky it makes you more likely to behave in a way that MAKES something happen to it. I'm not taking the risk- no green for me. Plus they are hard to sell.
Old 01 April 2003, 07:15 AM
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there was a list of the statistics of car crashes by colour on the back of 1 of my subaru dealer mags a while back dismissing the green is unlucky fernominan
Si (with his green machine & my good looks make up 4 any ugliness lol)
Old 01 April 2003, 08:31 AM
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green was unlucky for me, green scoob write off. doh!! I have never had the same colour car twice, so wont be getting green again.
Old 01 April 2003, 08:36 AM
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If there were any stastical basis for green being unlucky do you not think insurance companies would have picked up on it as an excuse to fleece people... erm I mean, provide realistic loading?
Old 01 April 2003, 08:43 AM
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Is this an April Fools thing?
Old 01 April 2003, 08:58 AM
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I have bought my first green car. Avoided them like the plague before because of the unlucky stigma but i've had no problems with it so far! Also apparently, green car = genius owner?!?!?! Not in my case though!!!!
Old 01 April 2003, 08:58 AM
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Not an April Fool thing, AFAIK, it comes from an old superstition that green BOATS were unlucky.
My family comes from Grimsby, which used to be the largest fishing port in the UK. Green boats were considered unlucky there, and had been for 100 years or so, well b4 cars were around.
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Old 01 April 2003, 09:03 AM
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Do you lot avoid walking under ladders and tripping over black cats?
Old 01 April 2003, 09:08 AM
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LOL, I do! Also have to do ritual chantings if I see a single magpie, to reverse the bad luck thingy!!!
Old 01 April 2003, 09:20 AM
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You're all just "green" with envy
Old 01 April 2003, 09:35 AM
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unlucky for sailors as green denotes a wreck !!
Old 01 April 2003, 09:40 AM
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Its a Scottish thing then the green myth


Old 01 April 2003, 10:22 AM
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I reckon the car's luck depends on the driver it gets rather than it's colour

Les
Old 01 April 2003, 10:36 AM
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my old man got a green van yesterday and look what was on the drive today!



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