Hmm, I wouldn't have said that Iris Blue resembled French Racing Blue...
however, it is a handsome period color that would doubtless look good on
your car, so go for it.
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 6/24/03 3:19 PM, Rocky Frisco at rock@rocky-frisco.com wrote:
> Chuck Renner wrote:
>>
>>> That was Paul Hanley. Beautiful Iris Blue '64. He was indeed the Top
>> Points
>>> Car in the Concours at roughly 950 points. It's a car he's had for a
>> number of
>>
>> Yes, 950.5 points on his car. I didn't have time to look at it in detail,
>> but from what I saw it certainly looked good. I've always thought that
>> color to look very nice on the early cars.
>
> Wow!! That's exactly the colour I want to paint the Victor TF. I have
> collected about two dozen pictures of early Bugatti Type 35s and, even
> allowing for the difference in photo colours and such, they appear to be
> each a different shade of blue. Even the colour codes I found for "Teal
> Blue" and "French Racing Blue" were all different. This BMC "Iris Blue"
> is just about perfect to my eye, so that's what I'm going to paint it.
>
> Thanks again to Paul Tegler for the website that gave me the codes and
> thanks to Steve Storey for the picture of his beautiful Iris Blue MGB on
> Paul's site:
>
> http://www.teglerizer.com/mgcolors/iris_blue.jpg
>
> -Rock http://www.rocky-frisco.com
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