Paint Colours

[Nigel W]

Found this on the web and thought it very interesting.

http://www.mgexp.com/article/bmc-paint.html

[Ritchie6]

Interesting looking at these charts but makes me ask a question. Delft Blue is shown as used 1973-1975 but my Delft Blue car was registered in May 1976 so did they have a stockpile of finished cars prior to registration or were they using up old paint? I don't have any information as to when my car was actually manufactured

Richard

[DJT]

Delft Blue, 136, was used on Stags in model year 1975 (from May 1975) through MY 76 and MY 77 - end of production.

[thebadleys]

I worked in BL dealerships from the late sixties to early eighties and i don't recognise quite a few of the colour names.

The last swatch refers to imported cars, could these be colours used on models exported from the UK to USA ? PPG are and American company.

Nigel

[Ritchie6]

Delft Blue, 136, was used on Stags in model year 1975 (from May 1975) through MY 76 and MY 77 - end of production.

Thanks for the info Dave. It would appear then that these paint colours may relate to cars made for the American market as it appears to be a US site when I clicked on the registry button at the top of the page