On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, at around 18:51:28 local time, "Fisher, Curt
(AFS-Dixon)" <CFisher1@afs.bwauto.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>I'm new to this list so let me know if I've broken any protocalls.
>
>On the subject of color and value... I am just starting the restoration of a
>59 TR3A. The car has been stripped down to bare metal everywhere. I don't
>know the original color. I intend to keep this car indefinately, and am not
>too concerned about showing it formally. I don't see any dark blues for a
>TR3A and am thinking of making it a 75 Jaguar Ocean blue (It is a solid, not
>metallic color). I had a 64 E-type years ago I painted that color and loved
>it.
>
>Any thoughts on going with a non-original color as far as value/
>acceptablility with my peers goes? Any one know of pictures of dark blue
>TR3s on the web? Any pictures of the 58 Winchester blue available? Any other
>more original alternatives?
As you will have seen from the comments that have already been posted on
the subject of colour, there are people who are going to hate it,
whatever colour you paint it. Ocean blue sounds awful to me! If you
paint it a non-standard colour, you are going to alienate that group of
potential buyers for whom originality is important; at least if you
reproduce the original colour scheme, you keep them on-side, and you
can't be accused of a lack of taste. You can get a BMHIT certificate
which will tell you the colour it started out as.
I think the only exception to this rule is the mud brown that some TR6s
were painted around 1970. These cars are almost impossible to give
away - in UK, at least.
But the bottom line is that this is your car, and is going to be your
car for a long time. Paint it sky-blue pink, if that's what you fancy,
and don't let anyone tell you different.
ATB
--
Mike
Ellie - 1963 White Herald 1200 Convertible GA125624 CV
Connie - 1968 Conifer Herald 1200 Saloon GA237511 DL
Carly - 1977 Inca Yellow Spitfire 1500 FM105671
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