what do you want for christmas ? and why

Clan Chieftain · Post by **Clan Chieftain** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:11 pm

8) i would like the new audi thats advertised on the telly just now....but will probably have to settle for the usual socks and sweeties........ssdy.

norway_triumph · Post by **norway_triumph** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:20 pm

i would like 2 cases of beer
and 50 timewarped bl mechanincs who could fix my fleet , while i do away with the beer

crashbang · Post by **crashbang** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:56 pm

the car painted in anything but brown

JIM73 · Post by **JIM73** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:38 pm

I dunno , cant be many left in russett brown now !!

crashbang · Post by **crashbang** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:46 pm

its a horrid colour and all the cars i seem to get offerd are russett brown anyway what the hell is russett :P

USspecGT · Post by **USspecGT** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:50 pm

I always thought a russett was a potato, unless there is something more glamorous and exciting out there which is also called a russett.

Uncle Frank · Post by **Uncle Frank** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:53 pm

sorry to disappoint you chaps but russett is a type of apple!

, and yes they are a sort of reddish brown colour ...hence russett brown

JIM73 · Post by **JIM73** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:54 pm

Uncle Frank might now if it was named after anything more glamorous !!

JIM73 · Post by **JIM73** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:55 pm

Beat me too it !! :roll:

Uncle Frank · Post by **Uncle Frank** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:00 pm

:roll: Thinking about it, there must have been someone keen on horticulture during the late 70`s at BL`s paint dept, think about it....Applejack, Russett, Snapdragon, Honeysuckle, Silver birch, Maple all Leyland colours, and there are probably more

, sad but true :roll:

crashbang · Post by **crashbang** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:02 pm

so its name is from a brown apple :? nice

Uncle Frank · Post by **Uncle Frank** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:08 pm

Fraid so Crashbang, still yours could be anything really from that photo it is a job to tell, as a K reg she would have been something entirely different originally as Russett only came out about 1979, and your car should be about 1972

, so it may be anyones brown...even Mercedes or BMW 8)

JIM73 · Post by **JIM73** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:14 pm

So !! its a rotten apple then !!

USspecGT · Post by **USspecGT** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:24 pm

Just did a bit of google-ing and it seems that a russet is also a potato also but now that Frank has thrown out the russet apple theorem it seems to make alot more sense to name a British Leyland car colour after an apple and not a potato. :?

I guess if BL started calling cars broccoli instead of limeflower and rhubarb instead of damask they would have folded years before.

Back to the topic at hand, I would like the "american beauty" Marina that is on ebay right now but will probably just get underpants again.

crashbang · Post by **crashbang** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:27 pm

dont try to make me like the colour its still poo