Slightly off-topic but I've potentially been offered a low mileage Allegro Vanden Plas from a guy I worked with 15 years ago. It's been laid up since then and he's lost interest. It was registered 1.1.75 so it is a late 74 Series 1, but I'm trying to identify what the colour is. No photos as yet, but I can describe it as a metallic sort of turquoise - too green to be blue. I seem to recall quite a few early 70's Vauxhalls wearing a similar hue and it would appear that it was a short-lived BL colour - but it is definitely it's original colour (the owner inherited it from his elderly aunt in around 1992/3 with about 18K on the clock, and like a true pillock used it everyday until he realised he was ruining it)
Any ideas?
Colour ID req.
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Re: Colour ID req.
Sounds like "lagoon metallic". A common early Allegro colour.
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Re: Colour ID req.
That looks like it could be it! The VDP was on it's original paint and in need of some (but not that much!) TLC but I reckon that's about right... Tempting as it's good to see a VDP in anything other than white or brown - and 'right' would make an eyecatching and unusual motor