> For color, do you want the car to stand out from normal cars on the road or
> other similar cars at a show?
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My TR3A is yet another in a long line of TR3s painted Triumph signal red
at a show. I often suspect that there are more red TR3 & 4s out there
today than the factory ever built.
Mine happens to be signal red by the virtue of it having originally
shipped that colour from the factory along with white top & side
curtains. But it sure gets lost in a sea of red TRs.
> but in a show the odd yellow one stands out.
I agree there. The few yellow, white, black, BRG and light blue TR3As
stand out and break the monotony of a long red line.
I came real close to going with a very dark metallic green, a shade that
looks almost black under some lighting and almost bright metallic
emerald green under others. I even bought a pint of the colour to spray
a panel just to look at it. Then I saw a metallic painted TR3 at a
British car show and it just shouted WRONG!!!!! to me.
maybe I'm just a conservative mouse unable to venture out beyond safe
factory colours but I'm happy I decided to let the Triumph factory
decide the colour of my TR3A. It may be one of way too many signal red
TR3As but it it the way the Triumph god made it so its good enough for
me. I suspect the modern metallic green would have been stripped and
repainted in a period colour within 2 years.
Sigh, just one of the meek herd with no sense of individuality.
TeriAnn
1960 Land Rover Dormobile
1961 Triumph TR3A
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