[PRCo] Re: "Yellow cars"

[Fred Schneider]

The lights inside the building tend to make the car look a lot more  
yellow than it is.

On Nov 19, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Jim Holland wrote:

> When 3756 was painted a number of years ago, people Here On This List
> speculated that PTM mistakenly used  *M*aintenance Orange instead of
> Passenger Orange which is Much More Subtle  --  mebbe the same  
> thing was
> done on 4398.       It is also photographed Inside which can alter the
> color outcome.
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> Regardless of the soot in the air the color will still Fade in the
> normal fashion  --  Cars Were Washed regularly then.       The acid in
> the air may have helped to promote the fade, also mentioned here on  
> this
> list before.
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> Bob Dietrich wrote:
>> Is all of Pittsburgh Color-blind or is it just PTM members?       Why
>> is that orange car called "yellow"?       I don't buy that it will
>> "fade to yellow", in 1930 it would fade to black-over-orange.
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