I've made up my mind I'll not be changing the interior - a lighter colour like that looks great with a dark / black interior but is would look a bit strange with Palomino me thinks...

...so the choice will be a darker colour to suit the pinkomino I've got.

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Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

You can counteract that with color matching hubcaps and white wall tires

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Even though I'm a purist at heart, I'd say it can look nice with Chevy Orange. Depending on your interior color, I've never seen the car. I'm assuming it's palomino or the like since that was most common with Manganese even on Euro cars.

Here check out the vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dAwY34O_z4

You should choose any colour if this colour is original one.

I think so.

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Yes Mr Ford - any colour so long as it is black...

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1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

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Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Huh
But Mr. Ford has chosen black color for the objective reasons...
I offer some kind of the objective variant also.

Oh I see - any colour that was originally used. Thanks. That narrows it down!

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1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

That Cypress Green is a uniquely beautiful car. Although it looks to be a European model to me. I voted for original.

Nice car. My W124 cab was totaled in the grocery store parking lot

Editing- I see Stretch is from The Netherlands, so Eurospec makes sense. Still love the green, still vote for brown, for all the reasons stated above...

Stretch, be prepared for a new onslaught. This just got sent out in the PP email blast.

I personally want to keep more Manganese Brown cars on the road, since mine was taken from me...

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Black!

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Completely biased here, but the malachite (spruce) green metallic that showed up in the 124s is just stunning. I can only base that on 20+ years as a daily driver in all conditions and this original paint to show for it:

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Pastel Beige, H-684 ! Very uncommon.

My favorite W123 color of all time: German Taxi! I think the correct name is Manila Beige.

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I voted for petrol green since my 82 300D is the same color and it always received compliments. Though they're not listed, may I also suggest 881 silberdistel/silver thistle (my 300SD is that shade), 587 pajettrot/Cabernet Red, or 199 schwarzblau/Black Pearl.

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