I think black stags look nice ,i thinkthe colour blacksuits the stagwell especially with the silver stripes,would i be right in saying black was not a standard production colour ,or am i wrong ?? !!!! cheers Graham
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Wingnut, I do believe that some were available in black as I'm sure someone on this forum worked in a BL showroom, and made a comment about a cracking black Stag in the showroom of the dealer he worked for. But for sure someone will know
The black sure is nice, and I'ld be suprised if BL did'nt also realise that it made the Stag stand out
Mike
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Two Colors the "expurts" say were never produced were Gray and Black.
We have a publicity photo of a gray one with a chippie laying across the boot - it was on the cover of TSC USA StagNews a few years back, and I know a guy in Georgia USA with a black one - 11 as Paint Color on the Commission tag with 11 on the trim, wire wheels.
Quite striking.
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Or even 'Grey'
Damnit all man, the car is British !!
And for our cousins over the Pond - please don't take offence, that's British humour for you.
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stagwingnut wrote:I think black stags look nice ,i thinkthe colour blacksuits the stagwell especially with the silver stripes,would i be right in saying black was not a standard production colour ,or am i wrong ?? !!!! cheers Graham
Hi
Back in the late 60's early 70's I used to work in a local (to me) Large multi franchised car dealer as a coachbuilder/ panelbeater - I can remember at least four occasions when brand new unregistered Stags were delivered to our premises.
They were then striped (mechanical/bumpers/lights/glass etc) and then sent to the paint shop where they were then painted black, then re assembled.
Three of the cars were for home market and one was lhd
Ray
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Christ that must have made the car bloody expensive for the first owner??
Mike
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Moraystag wrote:Hi MikeChrist that must have mad the car bloody expensive for the first owner??
Mike
From what I found out at the time there was just a "nominal"extra charge made to the customer !
The work that we carried out was charged to Triumph themselves and I beleive that they in turn supplied other vehicles at a very favourable prices as payment !
I do remember the lhd one went to a doctor in france who used it as his "everyday" car - he had a black Rolls Royce that we had in storage for him to use when he visited the UK !
Ray
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hi ray are you ashford kent ,or ashford middlesex ,
cheers andy
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coldstreamer wrote:Hi Andyhi ray are you ashford kent ,or ashford middlesex ,
cheers andy
Ashford Kent
Ray
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stagwingnut wrote:hi Graham.i can remember in the early eighties when the new mini metro was announced and for some strange deluded reason i was keen to buy as my first car luckily i didnt but it was a black one i wanted and it was only available as a option at £350.00 extra the same as metallic is now i dont know if this was the same in the seventies. it might account for the rarity of factory black stags?I think black stags look nice ,i thinkthe colour blacksuits the stagwell especially with the silver stripes,would i be right in saying black was not a standard production colour ,or am i wrong ?? !!!! cheers Graham
cheers grahame
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yes thankyou everybody that replied !! i have always believed the black ones were supplied only as special order ,it would seem that black was more expensive to produce ,not sure why though !!! perhaps black needs more depth of paint to make it look right !!! cheers GrahamComment
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A few thoughts on why Black, though listed, may never have been produced.
The sixties was an age of colour and it became possible to produce coloured paints which wouldn't fade (much). Rolls even produced a psychadelic one for John Lennon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbmDVeQ88W4 Black became a mourning or formal occasion colour.
Black was not a colour of the day. By 1970 THEE sporting car was the orange BMW 2002. Volvo even did the colour. And then there was yellow, a little more subdued,making a statement whether on an Escort, a Rolls, or a Stag.White , then as now, was a very sophisticated colour.(See Stag brochures)
Black was always labour intensive, notoriously difficult to keep clean and paint chips glared out for all to see. Perhaps because of the contrast with the undercoats. I don't know much about paints but suspect that black has come into fashion again because it can now be produced as a much harder, chip resistant, paint.
Speculation: Black was therefore only requested on very rare occasions and it may have been cheaper to have a car repainted than to run one through the production paint process.
Brian
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yes brian ,that makes alot of sense ,cheers!!!!Comment
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My black Stag (with light metalicgold flake)was yellow originally. I have all the MOT's for for the car, the first in 1979 states that the car was black then. So it changed colour within the 1st three years of its life.
I have all history apart from the 1st three years which is in the service book, but there is no mention in there when the colour change took place. I know they never painted the engine bay because Wards did that a few years later in black when the engine was out for work.
The letter of sale from the garage never mentions a colour change so i assume it was not done by the selling garage.
I like black cars, and my biased opinion is that black is the best colour for stags!! I wasn't sure aboutbuying a Stag as i had looked at lots of yellow, brown and white ones (sorry to those owners!), then out of no where i came across the black one and did the dealstraight away!
Alastair
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i mentioned on here a while ago that i used to clean a black stag when i worked at SP Autos although itwas originally brown
I have owned two black stags in the last year or so also and the first one was Green and the one I have now was yellow
I personally love Stags in Black and think it suits to the lines of the car perfectly
The current Stag
The old one
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