I thought I picked up on here a while back that although there were standard paint colours available for any particular year of new mini back in the day, that one could always ask for a particular colour if desired...
Now I realise that this can be done today if you really have a hankering for another colour out of the normal range, but it's expensive. So does this mean that it was done back then (at an exorbitant price) or was it part of BMC service to cater for strange customers with strange colour wishes?

Was it done very often?


EDIT:
I really would like more than the available 1969 colour options... http://www.elevenhundred.com/colours.php

There must have been more for example I have seen the Mini Car Clinic's Mk2 Cooper that was in Marine Blue from the factory.

Shadow blue would be nice...

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

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You've seen this list I gather http://www.ozcooper.com.au/paint_codes.htm

or this one (English colours and names) http://www.tcpglobal.com/autocolorlibrary/acl_files/blmc.html

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I know the owner of a Daffodil Yellow Cooper S that was a special order 18 months after BLMC had stopped offering the colour on new cars . Not sure what was involved in getting it at the time (extra money etc) but it was delivered in the colour new from the factory .

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Yeah I've seen that..

Some of the colours are fine, just wondering if it was usual to expand the range a little to include other years....as there are no paint markings on Mk2s then the sky is the limit I guess if that is the case..

You pays your money, you takes your choice...

1969
Amber
Aubergine
Cadet Blue
Calypso Primrose
Crystal White
GTO Green
Indigo Blue
Jet Red
Mist Grey
Portofino Gold
Sugar Cane
Willow Green

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

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so what you are asking is that if you wanted a 1969 car in black, what was the process and how much?

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Well there's other colours that i knew were around at the time, and have seen mini sporting that aren't on the colour charts. Marine Blue is an example.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

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One of the problems we have nowdays is the lack of info on what was available at the time. Most of the colour info that we have comes from Dulux books that were written well after the event.
But remember that Dulux was not the main BMC paint supplier, Berger Paints was the major supplier. So we really need Berger books from the 60s and 70s.
I have found a few errors in the dating in the Dulux books.

Now, I know that some BMC/Leyland cars we sold up to 2 years after they were made. Some cars really did sit around that long. So even if a colour was only available in one year it may have been sold a couple of years later.

The hassle here as well is that we are referring to a Morris 1100 list are we not (as well as the lack of a Berger colour chart)...could that mean that there are colours from that year not represented?

I mean, according the the colour chart, Marine Blue was available on the early models, yet the Paul Skinner's mini Car Clinic resto came in Marine blue and was repainted in the same colour in one of the better early on restos completed (about 1991/2?).

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

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You could paint it red with a white roof that would rare

looks BRG to me I've allways thought recooperation was BRG

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where's the pun in "Fast Fax"?

are they saying that the info was faxed in?

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No it just means some people back then couldn't spell..
Not much has changed since!

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when that was first written, Faxs were new and cool man!

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i think that came out of the old Fast Fours and Rotaries magazine....if you read those mags in the times you would understand...I remember a grey valiant with vinyl 80s graphics up the side cunningly called greyfix.

Still...

This was the car that sealed my love of minis, I used to hover over the instalments like a fly on poo. This was when I was just out of skool.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

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Me too.

Tim

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1955 BSA C11G
1961 Morris Mini Traveller
1969 Triumph TR6R
1977 Leyland Moke Californian