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That's nice frank, not seen one of those before,worth a fortune I should think!

Hi Andy, good point about the employees cars, you are quite right, I have met several employees over the years that had cars built to order, so there is always the possibility that the car was painted in a future colour option, several people have pointed out to me that this car is clearly a ...

Blimey we seem to be going round in circles here! thanks for everyone's input though, just found colour charts on website, according to that Rhine Gold and Brazil were available as Frank has said 73 through 75 so this does fit, although like Gary I also thought this was a late mk1 colour around N 75 ...

OK let's play detective, who has an early colour chart? Let's see if we can work out when the metallic colours were introduced? I think that they are dated aren't they?


Hi Chris, yea this would be good! Ive several colour and interior charts but none of them match what we have here! or what we ...

Andy where were the pictures taken - Aldridge Trimmers?

Hi Chris, no this is a chap called Gerry, his business is Inflex interiors, quite slow, bit concerned when first vinyl roof went wrong but its all put right now, the seats and door cards are very nice !


Hi Andy, with that colour interior ...

Brazil metallic cars were also available with a light beige cloth interior as I had a `74 saloon with this option (LDL722P) there was another one over here at the time which was exactly the same.
My gut feeling is that metallic shades were not used on Marinas until late `73 early `74 so there is ...

The BL Mk1 parts catalogue lists the following

Brasil paint Mk1 Coupes came with the following interiors;
Early - Sorrel
Late - Autumn Leaf

Rhiengold Coupes were;
Early - Ochre
Late - Autumn Leaf

There were four other metallic colours listed;
Cosmic Blue
Chartreuse
Reynard
Aurora

Hi Chris ...

minispeedstar wrote:Not the factory primer brown is it Andy?

Hi Gary, no not primer that is the green colour that looks like tundra I saw,

Vermilllion Gary, if it was Brazil do you know what colour interior that would be?

Hi all, just an update on this, Chris I checked colour under dash it looks brown but difficult to see clearly, log book says Bronze! so don't think it should be green now, surely its to early for rhinegold? was there another brown? would think it was too early for metallic being March 73?

So no ...

Thanks Josh reckon that's it then,

HI , thanks for all the input!,

The pic of the Tundra TC is the colour I saw in the rear panel, I was told it was holding primer!, I notice that's a 76 though was the colour available early 73?

Cheers Andy

If you mean Wild Moss then that's not metallic and doesn't look much like your colour
http://i312.photobucket.com/albums/ll339/ljantiques/IMG_0281_zps4457e0e4.jpg
As Gary says it looks close to Rheingold or possibly Brazil Metallic?

Hi Josh, The original colour was not metallic, it was a ...

Hi, Need some help, me and Gary been discussing and cannot come to a definitive answer,
What colour would my MK1 TC have been out the factory?
Its a late 72 in production but registered march 73
The chap I bought it from said the metallic colour it is now is very similar to its original colour (pic ...

Brilliant job of the seats,& nice to see the coupe yesterday.
Good to meet you.

Gil.

Hi Gil,

Thanks for your comments glad you like it, pleasure to meet you too, Ive been looking on Google maps but cannot see where the M6 has cobbles perhaps I'm not looking hard enough!! just got north of ...

JoshWard wrote:Yep nice to meet you too Andy

Thanks Josh,
Good luck with your new job!! keep the end up for us young ones!!