I had a Series V Alpine in college in Orchid Green. My mother hated the
color. She called it baby diarrhea green.
Jim Pickard
B9473298 ('65 Tiger)
AN5L/12109 ('59 Sprite) - sold
2003 Mini Cooper
Lafayette, LA
----- Original Message -----
From: "rande" <rande@thecia.net>
To: <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 5:55 AM
Subject: [Tigers] Steve's yellow Tiger
> "Steve Towle told me once that his yellow Tiger (one of two + a V6
> Alpine) was painted the same color as his early Mercury Cougar ('68?)
> It is a nice color. The "pea-green" Tiger, I think, was a stock color,
> at least for the Tiger II, and was known as Orchid Green. Others have
> referred to it as "baby-sh** green". Graham Vickery's Tiger II, thought
> to be the last one off the assembly line was painted (and remains) that
> color.
>
> Tod
> B382002384LRXFE"
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