[Tigers] Alp V green

[rande]

"I had a Series V Alpine in college in Orchid Green.  My mother hated the color.
 She called it baby diarrhea green.

Jim Pickard
B9473298 ('65 Tiger)
AN5L/12109 ('59 Sprite) - sold
2003 Mini Cooper
Lafayette, LA "


Jim, I'm going against the flow and saying that I like Orchid Green, and critics
be darned.

I had a college chum with a late '67 Alpine painted that color, and thought
at the time it was non stock. In the interim, I've grown to love that color
as I've seen it on more cars. I know wives and mothers have disparaged it, and
in at least one case made owners change to another color. I can only hope that
a later owner changes it back. It's part of the heritage of the later Alpine
V's and Tiger Mark II's, and if I owned one which originally came in Orchid
Green, I would restore it to that color.

RB

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