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neh321
366 posts
59 months
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Gregor Marshall said: Hi Jos
I think gold will be good. I don't know if you saw the photos I took of the TVR Tina but there is some of the original colour gold there. Someone e-mailed me and said it was an Austin colour of the time but I don't know if that's true.
Keep us updated, would love to see some more pictures of your car. Gregor - as I've mentioned before the ORIGINAL colour of the Tina Coupe was Rootes Group Beige (as seen on Hillman Hunters etc of the period). The convertible was similarly a Rootes Group colour, bright blue. I don't know if the Coupe was changed to an Austin colour at some time of its life or not (or indeed to gold), but I'm a bit hard pushed to think of a period Austin gold.. There WAS an Austin beige that some 1800s and Marinas were in, which was in fact very similar indeed to the Rootes Group beige, so maybe someone is getting confused between the two...? Norman
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Gregor Marshall
777 posts
65 months
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neh321 said: Gregor - as I've mentioned before the ORIGINAL colour of the Tina Coupe was Rootes Group Beige (as seen on Hillman Hunters etc of the period). The convertible was similarly a Rootes Group colour, bright blue.
I don't know if the Coupe was changed to an Austin colour at some time of its life or not (or indeed to gold), but I'm a bit hard pushed to think of a period Austin gold.. There WAS an Austin beige that some 1800s and Marinas were in, which was in fact very similar indeed to the Rootes Group beige, so maybe someone is getting confused between the two...?
Norman
Thanks Norman, I'm at work and could remember off the top of my head who it was, I knew it was someone in the know though. I think they must have used the beige and then mixed it with with a metallic/pearlescent after the show you saw it at; TVR have always been good at making their own paints!!
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neh321
366 posts
59 months
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Gregor Marshall said: neh321 said: Gregor - as I've mentioned before the ORIGINAL colour of the Tina Coupe was Rootes Group Beige (as seen on Hillman Hunters etc of the period). The convertible was similarly a Rootes Group colour, bright blue.
I don't know if the Coupe was changed to an Austin colour at some time of its life or not (or indeed to gold), but I'm a bit hard pushed to think of a period Austin gold.. There WAS an Austin beige that some 1800s and Marinas were in, which was in fact very similar indeed to the Rootes Group beige, so maybe someone is getting confused between the two...?
Norman
Thanks Norman, I'm at work and could remember off the top of my head who it was, I knew it was someone in the know though. I think they must have used the beige and then mixed it with with a metallic/pearlescent after the show you saw it at; TVR have always been good at making their own paints!! Could be! The BL (Austin) colour I was trying to think of yesterday was called "Harvest Gold" but gold was the last thing it was! It wasn't even a metallic! It was beige pure and simple but Harvest Gold sounded so much nicer!
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