Always have loved turquoise on guitars and cars. We had a 1972 Chrysler New Yorker that was a fine metallic turquoise when I was a teenager.
(With matching color brocade upholstery and carpet interior).
I tried unsuccessfully twice to buy a turquoise 4004 online. It’s in Paul Boyer’s book, came from the factory with chrome trim, and he switched the hardware out for gold. (It looked great with either).
Andy, love the research, but I feel like I should apologize — you've built us a whole cinematic universe of Hornets jerseys, Jazz cups, and GMC brochures, and the truth is a lot more boring: we liked the color, we'd done it before in the '50s, so we did it again. That's it. That's the strategic plan. Somewhere there's a version of this post where we're a bunch of California guys sitting around a table with mood boards and market research, and I hate to break it to you, but that meeting never happened. Keep writing though — you're clearly having more fun with our color choices, and spending more time on it, than we did.
Always have loved turquoise on guitars and cars. We had a 1972 Chrysler New Yorker that was a fine metallic turquoise when I was a teenager.
(With matching color brocade upholstery and carpet interior).
I tried unsuccessfully twice to buy a turquoise 4004 online. It’s in Paul Boyer’s book, came from the factory with chrome trim, and he switched the hardware out for gold. (It looked great with either).
Andy, love the research, but I feel like I should apologize — you've built us a whole cinematic universe of Hornets jerseys, Jazz cups, and GMC brochures, and the truth is a lot more boring: we liked the color, we'd done it before in the '50s, so we did it again. That's it. That's the strategic plan. Somewhere there's a version of this post where we're a bunch of California guys sitting around a table with mood boards and market research, and I hate to break it to you, but that meeting never happened. Keep writing though — you're clearly having more fun with our color choices, and spending more time on it, than we did.
Always enjoyed looking at the varied Turquoise models.
Subtle differences in
Hues & tone, but all very cool.
Carl Wilson shoulda had a few, very Beach Boys color.
Fantastic! Very well researched and stated!