Who Here Owns A Red Jap Car?

[Karma Supra]

Ho hum posts gone walkies.....

flashman, Don't tell me what to do...

I did read the thread I was merely correcting you.

[flashman]

Ho hum posts gone walkies.....

flashman, Don't tell me what to do...

I did read the thread I was merely correcting you.

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Here's the Panasonic Toyota F1: http://home.iprimus.com.au/skywriter/car%2...0f1%20front.jpg

Here's the 1967 Monza-winning Honda: http://www.tsf1.com/assets/full_product_images/TP007637.jpg

Are these Japanese F1 cars pretty much all red? I think so, yes.

Am I correcting you now? More or less, but there are mostly white

with red cars and sometimes mostly red with white cars

Did I do the Googling? Yes.

Why? Because he who asserts must prove, even though I haven't

looked for the Evo article stating that the WRC champion Evo was

all red because that's Japan's racing color.

[Leeky]

red because that's Japan's racing color.

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Sorry but NO, white is japans racing colour - end of!

We know it, the japanese know it and the Dolphins know it ;)

[Bibbs]

[http://www.tsf1.com/assets/full_product_images/TP007637.jpg

Are these Japanese F1 cars pretty much all red?

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Again .. No, Red is for the italians ..

AS YOU'VE PROVEN POSTING A PIC OF A FERRARI

France = Blue

Italy = Red

Germany = White (later Silver)

Belgium = Yellow

Netherlands = Orange

USA = Blue and White

Japan = White and Red

Thailand (Siam) = Pale blue and Yellow

Country Colours of vehicle Colour

Netherlands: orange,

Argentina Body: Blue

Bonnet: Yellow

Chassis: Black Red on white

Belgium Yellow Black

Brazil Body & bonnet: pale yellow

Chassis & wheels: Green Black

Chile Bonnet: Blue

Body: Red

Underframe: White Half blue & half red or all red on white

Czechoslovakia Bonnet: Blue & white Blue

Body: White

Underframe: Red

Egypt Pale Violet Red on white

Finland Black Blue on white

France Blue Blue on white

Germany White (sorry, not Red

silver)

Great Britain Green White

Holland Orange White

Hungary Bonnet: Red Black

Body, front: White

Rear : Green

Ireland Green (horizontal White

band of orange all

round body & bonnet

Italy Red White

Luxembourg Pearl grey White on red

Monaco White (red horizontal Black on white

band around the body

and bonnet

Poland Body and bonnet: White Red

Undeframe: White

Portugal Body & bonnet: Red White

South Africa Body: Golden Black on white

Spain Bonnet: Yellow Black on yellow, Body: Chassis & springs, white on red

red

Sweden Body & bonnet, lower part White

blue.Upper part: Yellow

three cross bands of blue

on the top of the bonnet)

Switzerland Bonnet: White Black

Body & underframe: Red

Thailand Body & bonnet: Pale blue White on blue

with yellow horizontal

band round body & bonnet

Wheels: pale yellow

United States Body & bonnet: White Blue on white

Underframe: Blue

These were the colours allocated by the sponsering newspaper in something like 1902, so you see sponser-ship is nothing new, several have altered since.

I thinhk that the US was either red before or after the agreement, hence the Panoz's at Le Mans in that colour.

Source:- Autosport 1955

Originally, national colors were as follows:

France was blue

Germany white

Belgium yellow

Britain green

America red.

The fact that no Americans made much of an impact in Europe resulted in red being taken over by the Italians - which is why today Ferraris are red.

German cars were white until 1934 when Mercedes-Benz decided to save weight by not painting its racing machines and Ferdinand Porsche, the Auto Union designer, decided to follow suit because he had minimalist tendencies. And so Germany's national color has become silver.

When American cars did race, such as Dan Gurney's Eagles, the color scheme was typically blue/white stripes.

Japan, with Honda's 60's foray in to F1 were white.

[Boro Sera]

what happened is during a bike race the triumph just rode off the track and never came back the rider was given a big pay off by a jap manufactuer, this is as the !Removed! couldnt figure out how the brits were getting so much power out of our 2 stroke engine, so they stole one, hence the end of our bike industry

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Good thing too........unreliable, poor handling, leaking oil all over the highway...........the British Bike industry could never have come up with anything as good as the CBR600 or the R1

[Razor_Rage]

you've got it all wron, black is the way forward ;)

[Karma Supra]

Black and Grey ;)

[Ryan1985]

Black and Grey ;)

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Nah, Razor had it right, just black! :P

[Karma Supra]

Black with gold (John player special ;)) and GRey with anthracite!

[flashman]

Thank you for the clarification.

The writer in the Evo story led me astray then.

He told me red was the main color. Either that,

or my memory is failing me.

Too bad Toyota doesn't do WRC. http://www.wrc.com/page/RalliesDetail/0,,10111~12,00.html

[Karma Supra]

Too bad Toyota doesn't do WRC.

They did do for years!!!!!! There cars were white.... but again that could have been more down to Castrol sponsorship...

Like I say, and have said all along... traditions are thrown out of the window with commercial sponsorship!!!!