Yes, I understand the subtlty of the distinction you make!
Guy
----- Original Message -----
From "Rick Lindsay" <rick at stoolhead.com>
To: "Guy Weller" <Guy.Weller@kencomp.net>; "conan" <conan@intrex.net>;
"Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: British Racing Green
> I could easily read the name as British
> racing 'green' (e.g. Italian racing 'red'), not
> 'British Racing Green' per se. As you suggest,
> I suspect the later is the brainchild of a
> marketing man.
>
> rick
>
> >
> > 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
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