David Lieb wrote:
> Italy got red, France got blue, Germany got silver (some claim that
> this was so that they could simply polish the bare metal and save the
weight
> of a paint job), and Britain got green.
I believe Germany orignally was white, but in the thirties, the
Mercedes racers were over the weight limit, so they stripped
the paint to reduce the weight. They thereby became the
vaunted "Silver Arrows".
Kent
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