Richard and Malcolm,
The VTR website www.vtr.org has this subject covered quite well with
Ditzler codes numbers. The Bill Piggot book has a very extensive coverage
of the colors used by year for the TR4A
Brian Sanborn
62 TR4 CT16260L - Groton, MA
My TR4 Restoration Web Site
http://www.net1plus.com/users/sanborn/Home.html (Big Update on 6/13/99)
E-Mail: sanborn@net1plus.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Malcolm Walker <walker05@camosun.bc.ca>
To: P2VNEPTUNE@aol.com <P2VNEPTUNE@aol.com>
Cc: The Usual Suspects <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, July 10, 1999 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: TRFaq
>
>On Sat, 10 Jul 1999 P2VNEPTUNE@aol.com wrote:
>
>> I WENT THROUGH YOUR FAQ LIST TO FIND OUT WHAT COLOR MY 1967 TR4A SHOULD
BE,
>> BECAUSE I AM ABOUT TO HAVE IT PAINTED. I COULD NOT READ ANY OF THE WORDS
ON
>> THE COLOR CHARTS AND I CANNOT BE SURE OF ANY OF THE COLORS. CAN YOU HELP
ON
>> THE PROPER COLORS FOR MY 1967 TR4A IRS?
>
>Richard, I am cc-ing the Triumphs List to see if I can garner some help
>from others out there.
>
>My personal response would be "Your 1967 TR4A IRS should be your favorite
>color", but that's just my bias.
>
>To find out what color your car should be from the factory, you can:
> - look on the BMIHT certificate and see what they painted it
> - Look at the paint code on the car (is there one on TR4As?)
> - Look somewhere on the car to see the original color (ie, my TR4 was
>once Signal Red, I know this as that is the base color beneath the wiring
>harness and the other stuff behind the dash that has never come out)
>
>If you choose method #3, it won't take long to dig up a paint recipe (or
>even better, a paint code for modern paint) that will be a close match.
>
>You could also go to one of the parts places / paint store in your area
>that have been in business since the 60s, and see if they have any old
>books of paint chips. Look up "Triumph", and find the paint chip that
>matches your car. Be aware that the corresponding paint code is probably
>out of date, or even that the type of paint is now considered nasty and
>therefore impossible to get.
>
>-Malcolm
>* There is a FAQ for this list! Its new home is:
>http://www.islandnet.com/~walker05/triumph/trfaq.htm
>
>
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