LOL! I’m lucky…I got one that puts more in (and back) than she takes out! Now the kids? Different story
I bought that kart to eventually play John David’s. She liked it for the leg room but I never liked it just because it was so big and blocky and slow. So, I’ve always treated it that way and she always teases me about being mean to “her” go-kart. She does like green, it’s her favorite color, (she once ordered a brand new truck in Emerald Green) but she knew the shade I was going for on the heavy kart would be unnatractive.
Speaking of color shades, I guess I might be as color blind as I am tone deaf. I’m not really, I know when a note is wrong, I just don’t know which way or how far to go to make it right. The opposite is true with color shades. I know what I want, I just can’t find it.
When I wrote the Rockford script and came to the part where Jess is leaving the phone booth and we zoom to the heavy on his kart staking him out from across the street, I pictured a big, ugly, 70s green 4 door sedan…not a pretty green… the color of feces. So I described it as “fecal green.”
Now, fecal green doesn’t exactly show up on any color swatches and it’s hard for me to describe. Not pretty but pretty ugly, like, “why would anyone order a brand new car in THAT color?” But not John Deere Green either...not THAT ugly (sorry Doc.) So I’ve been delving into paint codes to find an example of exactly what I mean.
The Mustang II (Maverick?) below is fecal green to me, better known as Dark Yellow Green in Ford codes. It’s not the same as Dark Highland Green or the more readily available (to me) Amazon Green but it’s just too many karts on that end of the pallet for my taste. I’ve gotten a big laugh out of the fecal green bit but no one else seems to get it so I’m dropping it.
In my research, (I love sitting around watching the Rockford Files on Netflix because I’m mad I can’t get anything else done and calling it research) I find that more heavies drove blue sedans. My conundrum now it WHICH shade of blue says, “I’m not a happy, cheery blue go-kart rider but one who would tamper with Jess’s brakes, beat up his friend, chase him, ram his kart, try to run him off the trail, trash his shop AND hit him over the head.” I think the Buick below says all that.
Now, how do I get that shade of blue and adhere to my $21/kart paint budget? I’m not trying to be cheap here but I have to stick to a budget as I have a lot of other production costs to save for and the nickels and dimes are really starting to add up.
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