I understood that Green was the prefered colour of the successfull privately
entered Le Mans Bentleys, and only subsequently became adopted as the
"British" team colour. I don't believe it was ever a specific regimented
colour - just a darkish green, depending on who applied it and which paint
tin it came from, but generally mimicking the Bentley colour.
Of course when the Marketing folk cotoned on to the idea that if they called
a dark green "British Racing Green" it increased their sales, it became
available as a listed colour in the paint charts, but still with a degree of
variability.
Guy
----- Original Message -----
From "conan" <conan at intrex.net>
To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 1:21 AM
Subject: Re: British Racing Green
> Forgot where I read it but... (possibly in 'Motor Racing' by SCH Davis,
1932ish)
>
> Some teams' versions of "British racing green" were sooo dark as to be
almost indistinguishable from black due to the (even then apparently)
superstitions about racing a green car.
> My one real doubt about this would be that if that was a current
superstition when the colors were handed out, then why did the British teams
accept the 'green' assignment???
> Ed in NC
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