On 31 Jan 1997, Scott Christie wrote:
> Alright, enough of this! Everybody knows that black cars with scarlet interiors
> / black piping looks great. However, I did see at the Detroit TE / AE national
> Anyway Mr. Gibbons, I checked the sales literature last night and here's what
> Sunbeam offered for Series V colour combos:
>
> Carnival Red with black interior
> Midnight Blue with black interior
> Arctic White with black interior
> British Racing Green with (guess what?) black interior!
> Jet Black with black interior (Stealth bomber)
> Mediterranean blue with (drum roll please ) black interior!
>
> I guess Rootes got bored with colour combos towards the end. The only saving
> grace is that you could get piping that matched the exterior colour. However,
> we have a mystery, because illustrated in two different areas on the brochure is
> a RED interior. Hmmmm......
>
> Scott Christie
> Series 3 Alpine Registry
Scott,
Thanks for the research. My present series V was a stealth bomber with
wire wheels. My first series V was the BRG with black. One wonders about
the pictures in the brochure; you'd think they would not show a color
combination that another part of the brochure says is not available. On
the other hand, the brochure for my bugeye Sprite showed a black car,
though black bugeyes were not available. Is either of the illustrations
a black car with red interior?
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons(at)northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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