This certainly isn’t a stock color, but someone decided to add a little zing to their old Accord. Since it’s my favorite color, I approve. And it turns out there’s a good reason for painting it blue.
These gen3 Accords are getting a bit scarce, even in Curbsidelandia. I did say “a bit”, so rest assured, there will be others around yet for the foreseeable future.
This is what Wikipedia says about blue: it often symbolizes serenity, stability, inspiration, or wisdom. It can be a calming color, and symbolize reliability. That last one is a new one for me. No wonder they painted it blue.
Really Paul I now have two BLUE Hillmans one I chose the colour the other was assembled that way both have white tops.
Ironically, a woman in my neighborhood owns a late-’80s Accord, and last year she painted it an identical color of blue. It took her a week or two to do the work (she spray-painted it in her driveway) — it had been gray beforehand. For a hand-painted car, it looks pretty good, I’m impressed with her work.
Nice find Paul, I really like the look of these Accords and I agree they are only getting rarer.
I like these accords (from the Peak Honda epoch), although I like the next generation even more.
I’m hoping to see some things turn blue today too… maybe I’ll paint my front bumper blue on my white car to offset this Accord…
Old woman in my city, back in the late 1970s, painted her Falcon with house paint, using a paintbrush every year, in blue.
She was called the Rock Lady. On a very hot afternoon as her husband was picking up landscape rocks while cleaning up their front yard, he commented, obviously annoyed, “I hope that when I die, I come back as one of these rocks.” He died a few years later. From then on, she had a superstition that one of those rocks was her husband. Neighborhood kids would pick up rocks and throw them…kids being kids, to annoy the Rock Lady. It was during this time that she started painting her Falcon.
She would be something like 115 years old or more by now….
I was a paint snob for a very long time. If I couldn’t afford a quality job then I just wouldn’t do anything! Therefore I drove a lot of crappy looking cars. I wasn’t around when Earl Scheib would paint any car for 19.95, but by the time I had my cars painted there, the base paint jobs were 350 bucks. My last couple of paint lobs were around 500 dollars, Earl had been out of business for several years. My attitude is now to paint any car, any color you want, any way you want. Just enjoy your car.
I once owned an ’87 LXi hatch. It was a very nice car that got wrecked by a semi on the 1-95 in Jacksonville near The Avenues mall. 2:06 PM November 4, 1994.
No, I have no idea why I remember that so specifically; why do you ask?
This looks like a rattle can paint job to me.