On Fri, 28 Jul 1995, Will Zehring wrote:
> FWIW: I have an original advertisement for US MGBs from 1963 and they do
> indeed list black as a color offered for sale. This is a US brochure so
> that may be a dealer applied color.
Nope. Black was offered in 63. See my other note.
> I have a friend who entered his black bugeye in a show and had to argue with
> the judges not to dock him points for the color (serious show, I guess).
> They insisted it was not an original color. He insisted it was; just that
> virtually no one actually bought one that color.
WELL, Will, black was NOT an original bugeye color. There has been a lot
of confusion about it, because there was a brochure that is reproduced in
many bugeye books and which was apparently used a lot by dealers, which
featured an artist's rendition of a black bugeye. There may have been
black prototypes, but during production black wasn't available.
Ray
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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