Okay, so today I got my car back from the body shop. They took out dents all over and gave the thing a full paint job…and it looks great but I have this bizarre problem…
I don't know what color my car is.
When I bought it, the official color at the dealership was "jade." It was a very, very dark green…the kind in that in some lighting you'd take for black. But most of the time when you looked at it, you'd see green, which is what it says on the registration. The body shop said they could and would match that color but it's now a shade or two darker…so dark that it looks black in most lighting and green now seems to be the occasional exception.
I'm going to look at it for a few weeks and poll friends before I decide what I'm going to say when, for example, a parking attendant asks me what color my car is. There is green in there but if he goes looking for a green car, he might never find mine. Now, it kind of looks like a black car that ate a batch of bad clams.