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Cooper_Matrikon
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Hi All,

I'll be looking to repaint the new purchase in the next few months. I'm looking for some BRG variants. I've seen the threads on paint codes and there's some great info on here. Wondering if some kind souls might post some pics on this thread so I can see them 'in the flesh' to help sway me. I saw Jester's deluxe and I'm a fan. I will be keeping the white roof and bonnet stripes though, so that may have an impact on the overall look. Any help would be appreciated!

Here's my starting point...

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If that's Barney (which I think it is?) I would simply match the existing paint and re-paint it that same colour. It looks great and is a really good cooper S replica that would be a shame to mess around with (I'd even go back to 10" wheels if it were mine but each to their own).
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Sure is Barney. I'm yet to see the car in person, so I thought I would research some options. Do you know which green it is off hand?

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Heres my BRG. Unfortunately I don't have the code. It's a standox colour and the painter just asked for BRG for a 68 mini. It is very similar colour to a lot of MGBs I have seen.

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My MkII is very dark, should really be Baltic Blue! :?

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Ahh BRG Simon Kerr's favourite!! :lol:

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very nice, and I suspect the driver looks even better :lol:
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very nice, and I suspect the driver looks even better :lol:


orrrrrrrrrrr there is good reason her head is half hidden :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Drmini will know and comment, but I think you may find the photo you posted was taken with a filter (or filter effects) and that the real colour is closer to mini68's?

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Mini68 wrote:
Heres my BRG. Unfortunately I don't have the code. It's a standox colour and the painter just asked for BRG for a 68 mini. It is very similar colour to a lot of MGBs I have seen.

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i painted my first car (morris minor) this colour,

it was found in a Dulux catalogue under a BRG search but was called Hawthorn Green, after Mike Hawthorn the race car driver who raced many BMC cars.....

a little trivia for you.
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What BMC cars did Hawthorn race? :? I don't recall him racing any BMC products.

There is about 300 different BRGs. BMC/Leyland had about 3 or 4 different ones in Australia. It was just a name to help sell sports cars. There is no official BRG.
Back when international racing was run under national colours a British team could paint their car any colour green that they wanted to.
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Here's a little light reading..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_racing_green

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_in ... ing_colors

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Mick wrote:
Here's a little light reading..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_racing_green

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_in ... ing_colors

Typical Wiki, lots of mistakes in both of them. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Morris, you should become a Wiki contributor and fix these mistakes.
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Mick wrote:
Here's a little light reading..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_racing_green

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_in ... ing_colors


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray-aspar ... -asparagus

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