The McLaren image thread

[wesley123]

It doesn't look yellow, it's (to me) a weird, uncomfortable, color somewhere in between orange and yellow.

To me it really looks like the red has just been discolored in some way.

[J.A.W.]

Well, the original "Team McLaren" colour was a yellow-orange called 'Papaya'..

Or do you think its a Marlboro 'Nicotine' yellow? ..If we want to go all.. "discoloured, weird" & "uncomfortable"..

[SiLo]

It doesn't look yellow, it's (to me) a weird, uncomfortable, color somewhere in between orange and yellow.

To me it really looks like the red has just been discolored in some way.

This.

It's screwing with my eyes because my brain just assumes it should be that bright red, it's just strange.

[Ciro Pabón]

It doesn't look yellow, it's (to me) a weird, uncomfortable, color somewhere in between orange and yellow.

To me it really looks like the red has just been discolored in some way.

This.

It's screwing with my eyes because my brain just assumes it should be that bright red, it's just strange.

I can understand your plight. This is a papaya, a fruit that grows down here.

Green, yellow, orange, red....


I hate this thing.

To some people, me included, it smells like puke.

The rest of humankind (not mutants, I guess) swears it tastes and smells perfectly.

Now, I hope you hate that colour even more. It deserves to be hated.

[xwz]

https://sites.google.com/site/ciropabon/papaya.png

I hate this thing. (...)

Now, I hope you hate that colour even more. It deserves to be hated.

I fall for phytonesque sarcasm.

Still, I can only say the best about the papayas of southern India - delicious, aromatic fruits.

They should come fresh from the tree right at the peak of their ripeness, a little earlier or later - not good. I never noticed any unaromatic scent on a fresh papaya (unlike the jackfruit), but maybe that varies with regions or kind of fruit.

The pod of a perfectly ripe papaya tends to be more evenly shaded than depicted above, with the original McLaren colour corresponding very well to it -

never thought I would state all that on an F1 board though .-)

[strad]

McLaren , Pits, Laguna Seca Can-Am 1969

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[J.A.W.]

Strad that last shot of the M4B looks a red-orange ( referenced against the red/yellow Shell signage),
& more like the traditional Chevrolet engine colour, than 'Papaya'..

Wonder when they settled on the yellow-orange as a preference, & did Enzo protest that it was.. too red?

[strad]

It's redder than Chevy orange. I t5hought it might be a slap at the old man

[J.A.W.]

Yes, def' like the Chev colour - closer to the red end of the orange range..

Bruce had already done slapped ol' Enzo - by winning the `66 Le Mans 24hr in a Ford..

Yet his fellow Kiwi in that car, Chris Amon - got a factory Ferrari driving gig..

[xpensive]

This is the proper McLaren color, Jonny Rutherforsd's McLaren M16C, winner of the 1974 Indianapolis;

[gray41]

Just imagine next years McLaren in that colour with a nice big 14 on the side. =D>

[erlik]

I would actually like that car looks like that, not just color!

[strad]

Point was he used a few colors early on

[J.A.W.]

Traditional national colours for World Championship racing were still in use up through the `60's

& Bruce & Chris Amon's `66 Le Mans winning Ford - was in New Zealand's national colour of black.

Likely, black was felt to be a bit too sombre - to adopt as a team colour in the swingin', psychedelic `60s..

Ferrari has retained Italian red, but BRG, another sombre scheme, is long gone..

& yeah - that `74 Indy winning McLaren - still looks the business.. ..& it is a reminder..
..that car is 40 years old, but still looks current-ish.. .. well, certainly closer to today's stuff,
..than to the equivalents from the 1930s, or 40 years before it.. ..hmmm..

[GitanesBlondes]

http://forums.autosport.com/topic/85480-mclaren-orange/