I saw a '74 once that was painted that color. It looks like shiny
grey primer. I didn't find it particularly attractive, but if you
like shiny primer, do it!
I was thinking that if I painted a car, it wouldn't be that color.
IMHO, chrome looks better on a darker color. It really didn't stand
out too well on the grey.
Mike Lishego
http://www.mgb.bc.ca/virtualgarage/
1991 Mazda Miata
1986 Plymouth Turismo T1
1984 Mazda RX-7 GSL-SE
1974 MGB
-----Original Message-----
From: Murch, Paul <murch@y-city.net>
To: MGS@autox.team.net <MGS@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, November 27, 1999 11:45 PM
Subject: Painting a 64B, Chelsea Gray?
>Hello MG folks,
>
>It's been a while since I have posted. I've been a member of the
list
>for several years and have been reduced to a lurker for the past
couple.
>With the trials of life and work and such, I have ignoring my car
for a
>while, but now I've gotten back to it.
>
>The car is a 64 pull handle B and is completely striped to a bare
shell
>which I have taken to bare metal and now have in primer. The
finishing
>body work is going well and I am thinking about paint. I would
like to
>stay with original colors for the 64. Therefore, Clausager and
others
>show me that my options are black, tartan red, a BRG, Iris blue,
old
>english white and Chelsea gray.
>
>While I am trying to do a perfect job on the body work, but it will
>never be good enough for black and for that matter I would like to
be
>able to see oil leaks etc. The shows that I have attended seem to
be a
>parking lot of BRG, I don't just want to folow the crowd, nix the
BRG.
>Red is typical sports car color and screams "Give me a speeding
ticket!"
>That leaves blue, white and Chelsea grey. Clausager has examples
of the
>blue and white but not the grey.
>
>Does anyone have an example of the grey on a web site? or maybe an
idea
>if this color was dropped because it was ugly? Is it primer color?
(it
>would be ashame to have done all of this work to end up with a car
that
>is perminately in primer!)
>
>Thank you for any suggestions and opinions.
>
>Paul Murch
>64 MGB
>Ohio
>
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