Rich
As you know I collect and keep 100 records on the AHC UK database in a
slightly different form to you but can add the following. Mind you, as
you are well aware the information we hold is only as good as that sent
to us by owners.
Altogether I have 20 cars recorded as being Coronet Cream but this
includes both those that were when new and those now declared as such.
Of these 13 were recorded as originally painted Coronet Cream
15 are now said to be this colour
Interestingly only 7 have said that their cars were originally Coronet
Cream are still that colour.
Of the 13 claimed to be originally Coronet Cream 11 have Blue trim. One
is red and one is red and black. One cannot discard the last two because
they could have been special order but I somehow doubt it. I suspect
that they all had blue trim.
There also appears to be a strong indication that all original cars
painted Coronet Cream were part of batch 4467. I would be interested to
know is any owner has a car that was originally Coronet Cream is outside
this batch number and has the documentation to verify it?
Regards
>I have heard (can't remember where but it may have been Clausager's
>book) that there were somewhat over 500 Coronet Cream cars built.
>I just did a quick tally in our Hundred Registry of the cars we have
>trusted records for, showing original colours and approximate build
>dates. The first Coronet Cream car I have listed is Body 121 from first
>week of September '53. The last CC car I have a record for is Body 1866
>from the last week of January '54.
>Within that bracket of time, I have colours recorded of 73 cars (though
>unfortunately we have incomplete records for hundreds more built during
>that time period that haven't sent me colour information).
>Anyway, of the sample of 73 cars recorded with colours during the CC
>production period, here are the results:
>17 Coronet Cream
>5 OEW
>29 Healey Blue (metallic)
>19 Carmine Red
>3 Spruce Green
>1 Gunmetal Grey
>9 Healey Blue (non metallic)
>
>It's also interesting to note that when CC stopped, Spruce Green and
>OEW picked up heavily, and Healey Blue non metallic disappeared.
>Of course this Hundred Registry record is far from complete, but at
>least it gives us a glimpse of percentages during a given time period.
>
>Rich Chrysler
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John Harper
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