Originally Posted by
madpogue
Okay, so @
BocaJr 's
Trek 720 and @
natterbury 's
612 on the "Show your Trek" thread are both called "pewter" in the respective Trek catalogs. Is that gray, or silver? We have a couple 730 frames of the same color, and to me, even with the metal flake Imron, they're gray. They would have to be lighter and glossier (and not from clear coat) to be considered silver. Granted, there are (bad pun alert) gray areas, but you can't call anything with any sort of gloss or metallic automatically silver. That would only leave battleship gray, pretty much.
My 'dark pewter' 1984 Trek 620 looks to me like a medium gray with metallic fleck. The color became more attractive once 30+ years of grime was removed.