The following is the chart from the VTR site for TR3A's which came from
Piggott's Original TR book. I don't have the book at hand, but there was a
reference in it that at the change over, a car could be purchased in Sebring
White and a Spa White hardtop would be fitted (or it might have been the
other way around). So the Sebring white was a consideration in the late
50's.
Has nothing to do with the TR4 discussion, just a point of fact.
Carl
PAINT DATA
Color Dockers/I.C.I. Ditzler
Black ICI2224 9000
Pearl White ICI2857 8204
Sebring White ICI3276 8247
Spa White ICI3436 8335
Signal Red ICI2859 70966
Green (B.R.G.) ICI2855 42487
Primrose Yellow ICI3220 (to Sep '58)
Pale Yellow 81168 (from Sep '58)
Powder Blue ICI8013 12163 (from Mar '58)
Pearl Gray ICI2931 32220 (to Sep '58)
Silverstone Gray ICI3277 51943 (from Sep '58)
Apple Green (sp. ord.) ICI2920 42486 (from Mar '58)
-----Original Message-----
From: ZoboHerald@aol.com [mailto:ZoboHerald@aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 9:20 PM
To: pethier@isd.net
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: TR4 White
In a message dated 2/2/2002 3:21:48 PM Eastern Standard Time,
pethier@isd.net writes:
> But I am curious as to the original color Spa White. The paint I have on
> there now is Maaco, from a PO.
>
For a good "ballpark" idea of what Spa and some of the other period whites
looked like, try this color chart from Martin-Senour, at the VTR site:
<http://www.vtr.org/maintain/paint-charts/martin-senour-colors.jpg>
Of course, the usual caveats apply: it's a very old paper chart that might
have had some fading and wasn't 100% accurate to begin with; then factor in
scanning and all, as well as differences in individual monitors, etc., etc.
* and it's still a good "relative" guide to most of the colors depicted.
I always considered Spa White to be a bit warmer (yellower) than New White
(Triumph code #19, whether you call it "New" or "Pure" or ???), with "Pearl"
in between? Velasquez Cream is perhaps yellower still.
[Nimbus (greenish) and Sebring (bluish) White are different still, but
mostly I don't think they apply to the TR series.]
* Andy
Andrew Mace, Vice President, Member Services
and 10/Herald/Vitesse (Sports 6) Vehicle Consultant
The Vintage Triumph Register <www.vtr.org>
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