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| Author: | jacks1071 [ Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Help me pick the colours for my respray!! |
Hi Guys, I need help. My race mini is in at the panel beaters getting prepared for a bare metal 2pac re-spray. But I can't decide which colour I want. I've had a white one with a red roof, and this one is red with a white roof. The car will be used for classic rally events, so I want to stick with a traditional colour. The car is a Mk1 round nose. I want something that looks really wow - while still maintaining a period type feel. I've really got no idea what I want. If anyone has some ideas and / or pictures of some really nice race cars I'd love to see them. I want it to be a real head turner. Please help as the panel beater will be ready to spray in a couple of weeks, I don't want to hold him up with colour choice!... jacks. |
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| Author: | glen2000 [ Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:05 pm ] |
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Mk1? classic races? Gotta be RED. |
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| Author: | jacks1071 [ Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:26 pm ] |
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glen2000 wrote: Mk1? classic races? Gotta be RED.
I like red and thats what I origionally wanted, Hanra's car looks unreal. But I was thinking something different. Anyone else? |
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| Author: | simon k [ Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:08 am ] |
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anything but british racing green, red and white... it's hard to find a classic race car in anything other than those colours 
I reckon this colour (Baltic Blue) looks teriffic - another WOW blue is HDT formula blue, my blue S was that colour and really looked excellent - stood out, but very classic too - can't access a picture atm tho - sorry 
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| Author: | glen2000 [ Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:27 am ] |
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My UK Clubby was vermillion which was an orangy red I loved that colour. http://www.minicolours.co.uk/list.cgi?code=X I've posted this site before but its good to get an idea of the colours on actual cars. |
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| Author: | jacks1071 [ Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:36 am ] |
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glen2000 wrote: My UK Clubby was vermillion which was an orangy red I loved that colour.
http://www.minicolours.co.uk/list.cgi?code=X I've posted this site before but its good to get an idea of the colours on actual cars. Mate I think you might be onto something here. Can anyone post some good pictures of Vemillion Red cars? I've searched the net and all I can find is the tiny picture on minicolours.co.uk site which isn't very good. I like this idea. J. |
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| Author: | glen2000 [ Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:11 am ] |
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Okay I found a couple of sites for old leyland colour samples (both for mg's). http://www.teglerizer.com/mgcolors/index.html http://www.mgb-stuff.org.uk/paint.htm also this is the only one I could find on the web, not a good pic  but shows the colour 
cheers glen |
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| Author: | jbeenz [ Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:58 am ] |
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speedwell blue with a white roof. 
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| Author: | floss [ Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:40 am ] |
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surf blue is quite popular also. I think it looks pretty good. |
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| Author: | jbeenz [ Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:55 am ] |
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mmmm surf blue...nice or you could be really different, and go for a traditional colour, tartin red, or that orange, or olive green or smoke grey, with composary white roof, and then add a twist, throw some house of kolor glitter flakes in with the clear, you would get this normal look then a bright sparkle in certian lights. |
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| Author: | drmini in aust [ Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:57 am ] |
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Castrol Green/White roof.... it'll stand out like dogs ***s.. 
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| Author: | justminis [ Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:18 am ] |
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drmini in aust wrote: Castrol Green/White roof.... it'll stand out like dogs ***s..
But which Castrol Green Kev, there have a few different shades over the years, just been through this exercise with a Brisbane car rebuilt as a replica of 1966 winner. Matt McGrath's mini (seen in TME) is Castrol Green but is quite light shade compared to the older colours. |
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| Author: | dove grey 64 [ Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:19 am ] |
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Tweed grey and a black roof, or old english white roof. respectable old school pastel colors i think are cool for mini's. |
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| Author: | marcello [ Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:40 am ] |
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i think shades of grey are the best. maybe a dark grey with a light grey roof. surf blue with snowberry white roof is amazing too. not a fan of reds as they are too common. almont green and saxon green roof has t one of the best period colour combinations around. |
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| Author: | 1310/71 [ Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:04 am ] |
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1970 mini K wrote: Tweed grey and a black roof, or old english white roof. respectable old school pastel colors i think are cool for mini's.
You need to decide if you're going for a "works replica" and if so, which country (English or Aussie), or if you want something to just look period. The above suggestion is great (particularly with the white roof) but I think was mainly used on the smaller capacity cars rather than the Cooper S's, but I also like Surf Blue, Baltic Blue and speedwell blue. Maybe check out some of the historic rally coverage in the pommy classic car and mini mags for some inspiration. KB |
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