A color change after washing is not that far fetched.
In 1956 my dad bought a brand new Chevy Bel Air. He was in the Army and got posted from Vancouver to Ottawa, so we all piled in the Chevy and drove east. We got to Calgary and stopped to visit my aunt and uncle. Another aunt and uncle drove down from Edmonton to join the party. At one point my dad and both uncles drove off in the Chevy for a run upto Edmonton to visit another army buddy on a farm. The next day they returned driving a different car that was completely covered with prairie mud, his farm buddy didn't wash things. You couldn't see any color or even any badges to determine what brand it was. All the kids were "volunteered" in proper army fashion, to wash the car. It was a tri-tone 56 Buick Roadmaster. The roof was white, mid body was maroon and the lower body was grey. It was an amazing car on the highway, lots of power and very smooth.
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