Re: Racing colours

[McGaheyRx@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/14/00 8:37:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
prdesign@ix.netcom.com writes:

<< Interesteing note Germany's colors were originally some sort of very
 dark
 green.  But i believe either mercedes or auto union stopped painting
 there >>
I thought the story was that their color was white, but someone had to sand
all the paint off right before a race to get the weight under a  max limit 
for 
the race, thus changing the color to silver
Cheers
Jack Mc