The story I have heard from more than one source was that in the early
years Sir John Black's wife selected the color schemes. The story
goes on to note that she was colour-blind.
Well who knows, but it made a nice story and does account for such
things as Olive Green, Geranium and Targa Purple.
I am fairly certain that the early cars were not available in red.
Cal Sales in Southern California would actually respray some of the
new cars in red to be able to sell them. Standard finally got the
message and added Signal Red to the spectrum.
Geo
On 7/31/08, Ted <triumph66@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know how Triumph chose paint colors for its TR2 to TR8 lineup.
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