Can color add or detract from a car’s value?
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Can color add or detract from a car’s value?
from a Road and Track article that I stumbled across on Yahoo
now they tell me! 
Can color add or detract from a car’s value?
The simple answer is yes, especially if you plan on holding onto your car long enough for it to attain classic status. “Everybody talks about Resale Red,” says Mike Fairbairn, a founding partner at RM Auctions Inc. Red is perennially popular with buyers but, according to Fairbairn, not all colors are so lucky.
“The other conventional wisdom is that you can’t sell green.”
(the horror)
Fairbairn advises owners—specifically those in the classic car world—to think carefully when choosing a color. “Choose a period color that people would consider iconic for that model.” A color should also apply to the type of car, with darker hues working well with formal luxury vehicles like a vintage Rolls-Royce.
The simple answer is yes, especially if you plan on holding onto your car long enough for it to attain classic status. “Everybody talks about Resale Red,” says Mike Fairbairn, a founding partner at RM Auctions Inc. Red is perennially popular with buyers but, according to Fairbairn, not all colors are so lucky.
“The other conventional wisdom is that you can’t sell green.”
(the horror)Fairbairn advises owners—specifically those in the classic car world—to think carefully when choosing a color. “Choose a period color that people would consider iconic for that model.” A color should also apply to the type of car, with darker hues working well with formal luxury vehicles like a vintage Rolls-Royce.
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Because its period correct.
“Choose a period color that people would consider iconic for that model.”
EDIT: Funny, I know a number of people that avoid red because of the long term fade factor.
Red is perennially popular with buyers but, according to Fairbairn, not all colors are so lucky.
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this place is so dead lately
Sorry, 2010 Sunspot Gold owners 
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Our green Bullitts are the exception to Road and Track rule. Interesting find and it's a good topic starter, but I'm not worried at all...........mostly because I never plan on selling.
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