I guess my final tabulation of engine colors somehow was not obvious to
everyone. I posted it inside another message. In any case the final
results were:
Green 18
55%
Red 11
33%
Gray 2 (on early
M-types) 6%
Blue (bespoke or racing engine) 2
6%
To me, the percentage of green engines is significant. Although nothing
concrete can be proven by these numbers, it is clear that red was not
necessarily the predominant engine color for Triple M two-seaters, as
urban legend has held.
It also raises an interesting question as to whether racing engines were
the only engines to be painted blue. I'll go out on a limb and speculate
that any bespoke or otherwise special engine was so painted so as to
distinguish it from other outwardly similar-appearing engines. Although,
there are not enough responses to form a statistically accurate opinion.
Red and green seem to be used indiscriminately. I cannot find any
correlation between red, green, 2-seater, or 4-seater. So what was the
criteria. Or was it purely what happened to be in the spray gun?
Regards,
Lew Palmer
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