Smoking something strange in Florida... 73 tii

[williamggruff]

Jessie and I joked it was Malaga unless parked next to another Malaga, in which case it was more like lipstick red. If you check on the third pic on the link below, the car to the right is the correct Malaga...Larry Ayers' previous car. Regardless, the color is very appealing.

+1 I think there are many variations to Malaga (mine isn't correct either)

Perhaps BMW chose to name their colors in this fashion because there IS no defined color of Malaga, Verona, etc. Maybe they were REALLY artistic about it, and mixed the paints to match the seasonal colors. So a Malaga from March would be a bit darker hue than a Malaga from July. Who's to say? I call my car Verona, my wife calls me a maroon. It's all in the eye of the beholder.

[LJtii]

"my wife calls me a maroon."

Maybe she has been watching too much Bugs Bunny?

[shipm_8]

I suspect some of the paint tinting differences are the result of oxidation, which any reddish color seems to have a knack for doing well. My '73 Malaga car retains its original paint but, over the years, it has turned slightly more red than the original maroon ever was.

Malaga paint job on mine was not original....apparently the car was delivered in Taiga. My guess is also that there were variations.

LJtii...do you happen to be near college area? I was riding my motorcycle one day and drove by a house with a roundie Malaga tii parked on the driveway.