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wild_willy
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Pretty sure I've seen an OEW and dove grey


That sounds like an UK colour combo. I don't think either of those colours were used in Oz.
The Smoke grey/white combination was also used in UK on Coopers.
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Blunder wrote:
Pretty sure I've seen an OEW and dove grey


That sounds like an UK colour combo. I don't think either of those colours were used in Oz.
The Smoke grey/white combination was also used in UK on Coopers.


OEW, no. Smoke Grey, yes! It was also an 850 colour. I remember seeing a 998 Cooper in Adelaide that was Smoke Grey and Toga white roof.
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My 997 is Osmond Green/Saxon Green ,but at the moment it is Primer Grey ........

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My 997 is Osmond Green/Saxon Green ,but at the moment it is Primer Grey ........


and that, AFAIR, was the most popular car colour combo sold here...(although right front mudguards were often seen in Primer Grey :? )

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yeah my 63 997 is osmond green/saxon green too.
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wild_willy wrote:
Blunder wrote:
Pretty sure I've seen an OEW and dove grey


That sounds like an UK colour combo. I don't think either of those colours were used in Oz.
The Smoke grey/white combination was also used in UK on Coopers.

UK smoke smoke grey is more blue looking than Aus's
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Seems to have been a very popular colour combo , I had a very early 997 Cooper back in 1982 ,it had the front stamped ID plate ,with the CKD number , and was also Osmond Green/Saxon Green .....hmmmm wish I had of kept it

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Seems to have been a very popular colour combo , I had a very early 997 Cooper back in 1982 ,it had the front stamped ID plate ,with the CKD number , and was also Osmond Green/Saxon Green .....hmmmm wish I had of kept it


Not really....it was a little like Henry Ford saying "you can have any colour, so long as it is black!"....its just the colour combo that BMC decided to run with here....

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This one is on Gumtree at the moment \near me. I guess its shadow blue and platinum?

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Mmmm...Shadow Blue. My favourite BMC colour of all time.

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Would the roof on the Cooper above be Platinum or Nurburg White?
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Would the roof on the Cooper above be Platinum or Nurburg White?


If the blue is Shadow Blue then the roof is Platinum. If the car is Dusk Blue the the roof is Nurburg White. Bit hard to pick the difference between blues with pics on screen. Also Platinum is a very pale almost white Blue.

A Shadow Blue/Nurburg White combination could be possible but I haven't heard of one. Maybe someone else could check some ID plates and let me know?

My Dusk Blue/Nurburg White. (Same car different lighting conditions).
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Gould's of Northcote had a 1963 Ormond Green/Saxon Green 997 Cooper with light green interior on the showroom floor when I bought my first Mini 850 - Nurburg White with Yellow interior. You could only get Red, Green, Blue or Yellow interior trim on an 850 at the time. I had a test drive of the Cooper but could only afford the 850 - 753 Pounds versus approx 950 Pounds for the 997 Cooper.

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A Shadow Blue/Nurburg White combination could be possible but I haven't heard of one. Maybe someone else could check some ID plates and let me know?


I definitely owned a Shadow Blue/Nurburg White 997 many years ago. I remember agonising over what nurburg white looked like.

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Mick wrote:
Mmmm...Shadow Blue. My favourite BMC colour of all time.


Me too. My first Mini back in 1986 was mostly shadow blue. Shadow blue and rust. :D

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