Lew, we can't forget about John Heygate in the MOTOR TRAMP who refers to the
RED engine in his MG Magna... tommm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lew Palmer" <lpalmer@roundaboutmanor.com>
To: "MMM List" <mg-mmm@autox.team.net>
Cc: "Bob Clare" <100570.2213@compuserve.com>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 4:21 PM
Subject: Engine Colors
> 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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