Introduced When?

Post by **MrA.Series** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:25 pm

Hey all. Haven't been on her for what seems like an age! Agh Uni work!

Well...
Looking through colour codes books and the like, I noticed that some say the Smoke Grey, The colour of my dear Boris (see sig pic), wasn't introduced to the range of saloons until 1970. Boris is an early G reg' (late '68, so not even a '69) and this has been her original colour.

So which is right? The book of facts or the real car?

Post by **Willie** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:37 pm

SMOKE GREY was available from Feb 1959 right up to the latter part of 1970.
By the way, you do not have a sig. picture!!

Post by **MrA.Series** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:57 pm

Cheers, so the bull Motif website as well as the classic colour pamflets can now be noted as wrong as they state 1970 as introduction.

Blimey, I'd better sort my sig pic out again, I didn't think I had gone for that long!

Post by **rayofleamington** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 5:26 pm

they state 1970 as introduction.

wasn't it replaced around then with something like a slightly more cheery light blue (Bermuda?)

Post by **Cam** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 5:42 pm

I agree with Willie. My info says it was introduced in Feb '59 until Nov '70 on the Saloons.

Post by **Chris Morley** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 5:56 pm

I noticed that some say the Smoke Grey, The colour of my dear Boris (see sig pic), wasn't introduced to the range of saloons until 1970.

Since the saloons were discontinued in November 1970 that doesn't make sense! 'Original Morris Minor' states that smoke grey was introduced in February 1959 and continued until the end of saloon production. They stopped using it on travellers in July 1969 and used Bermuda blue from then on.

My car is a G reg (March 69) and the interior is clearly faded smoke grey.

Post by **HarryMango** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 8:34 pm

Here's an interesting factoid - did you know that there were more Minors produced in Smoke Grey than any other shade.

Rog

Post by **TerryG** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 11:41 pm

I assumed that traffy blue would be the no1 colour, you learn something new every day!

Post by **Onne** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:50 am

Isn't black nr 1?
As in FBA11/etc the 1 stands for black

Post by **chickenjohn** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:59 am

HarryMango wrote:Here's an interesting factoid - did you know that there were more Minors produced in Smoke Grey than any other shade.

Rog

But as said above there seem to be more black and Trafalgar blue survivors.

Post by **paulk** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:54 am

I always wondered if some paint colours were not better at rust prevention than others?

If you look at 70's Leylands the beige/sandy colour seemed to last forever and that bright orange on mini's seems to have more than it's fair share of survivors.

My mog is Traffy blue

under the BT yellow.

Post by **TerryG** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:48 pm

My mog is Traffy blue under the BT yellow.

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