Paul wrote:
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The car is a 64 pull handle B and is completely striped to a bare
>shell
>>which I have taken to bare metal and now have in primer. The
>finishing
>>body work is going well and I am thinking about paint. I would
>like to
>>stay with original colors for the 64. Therefore, Clausager and
>others
>>show me that my options are black, tartan red, a BRG, Iris blue,
>old
>>english white and Chelsea gray.
>>
>>While I am trying to do a perfect job on the body work, but it will
>>never be good enough for black and for that matter I would like to
>be
>>able to see oil leaks etc. The shows that I have attended seem to
>be a
>>parking lot of BRG, I don't just want to folow the crowd, nix the
>BRG.
>>Red is typical sports car color and screams "Give me a speeding
>ticket!"
>>That leaves blue, white and Chelsea grey. Clausager has examples
>of the
>>blue and white but not the grey.
>>
>>Does anyone have an example of the grey on a web site? or maybe an
>idea
>>if this color was dropped because it was ugly? Is it primer color?
>(it
>>would be ashame to have done all of this work to end up with a car
>that
>>is perminately in primer!)
>>
>>Thank you for any suggestions and opinions.
>>
>>Paul Murch
>>64 MGB
>>Ohio
Chelsea Grey would have to be described as a light Dove grey. Okay, if
someone wants to think of it as shiny primer, you might be close but it
doesn't have the bluish hue of grey primer.
I think one would have to trim the car out in all it's oroginal colours to
be fair. Therefore picture in your mind's eye, the car finished in a glossy
dove grey with red interior / white seat and trim panel piping, and red hood
(top), and tonneau cover. Now that to me would be not flashy, but rather
classically pretty, almost elegant. Line that up at a show and I think you'd
have a real favorite!
Rich Chrysler
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