Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott,
No question that some cars were painted in "non-production" colors for special
people or I suppose anyone willing to foot the bill. Your comment on your
CKD's is most interesting and points out that we should have specified that
our comments were for production cars built in England. Do not want to get
the Innocenti folks mad at us. <g>
Bob and Annice
1960 Sprite (Mk IV in disguise)
In a message dated 3/14/99 11:41:14 AM, toobmany@bigpond.com writes:
<< No flames from here but Sprinzel had two black Bugeyes in 1960, one for the
Acropolis in May and a new shell for the RAC in November. I agree with
your listed colours but many unlisted colours were also available to
special order. Also FYI our CKDs were painted locally and the colours were
named after international circuits eg: Monza Red, Rheims Blue, Nurburg
White. These CKDs also had an extra VIN plate listing chassis no (per
shock tower), engine no. and colour which also included a code to show the
paint manufacturer (ie:Dulux, Spartan) and the paint type (ie: enamel,
acrylic lacquer). >>
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