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Paint - an optional extra

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  • Gloomendoom
    Gloomendoom Posts: 16,551 Forumite
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    grannies like beige....

    My dad's favourite colour was beige. His first car new car was a beige 1955 Ford Popular.

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  • firefox1956
    firefox1956 Posts: 1,548 Forumite
    Buy a secondhand one........let somebody else pay the extra.
    :rotfl::rotfl:
  • Jackmydad
    Jackmydad Posts: 9,186 Forumite
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    My dad's favourite colour was beige. His first car new car was a beige 1955 Ford Popular.

    1280px-1955_Ford_Popular_%2813027999655%29.jpg

    With optional handling. . .:eek:
    The Fordson van version came with the driver's seat as standard, and the passenger's as an extra. Most vans were like that until the mid-60s -ish.
  • EssexExile
    EssexExile Posts: 6,695 Forumite
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    Are we going back to the good old days when a heater & passenger sun visor were cost options?
    Tall, dark & handsome. Well two out of three ain't bad.
  • boliston
    boliston Posts: 3,012 Forumite
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    Whenever I have brought a new car I have gone with the standard options - there is no way I would pay several hundred pounds extra for fancy colour and fancy wheels when I'm inside the car when I'm using it so I would not get any benefit for the extra outlay.
  • Jackmydad
    Jackmydad Posts: 9,186 Forumite
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    I've never bought a new car. I like someone else to have the initial depreciation on all the options. :D
  • My dad's favourite colour was beige. His first car new car was a beige 1955 Ford Popular.

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    Youre preaching to the converted as my first at was a Leyland princess in tan with a brown vinyl roof....Cooooooooooooool!
  • motorguy
    motorguy Posts: 22,650 Forumite
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    Buy it off broadspeed.com, and with the money saved, pay for a colour option.

    https://broadspeed.com/new_cars/Nissan/Micra/Choose_Number_Of_Doors/

    Simples.

    :cool:
  • molerat
    molerat Posts: 36,521 Forumite
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    Fords come in red, any other colour is extra.

    Never associate with idiots on their own level, because, being an intelligent man, you'll try to deal with them on their level - and on their level they'll beat you every time.

    Being hated by idiots is the price you pay for not being one of them.

    Jean Cocteau 1889-1963

  • RichardD1970
    RichardD1970 Posts: 3,797 Forumite
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    Youre preaching to the converted as my first at was a Leyland princess in tan with a brown vinyl roof....Cooooooooooooool!

    My dad had one of those, think it slowly dissolved on the drive :D

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    Classic. (not an picture of the actual car)
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