Morris Minor Owners Club

allright, no offence! Don't know what I want for colour for my next project though.

I wasn't kidding about "the same black", BTW - does anybody know? Hardly important, I'm just curious

I don't think the colour code changed over the years, but I don't know if that says anything

BigG, I think it was the same all the way through going off the codes, but mistakes in this department have been known!

Yup! Like I say, not vital, just curious

And black is supposedly quite a hard colour to get right on a car, dark black or light black, you get the idea!

Or blue or red based - they can be extraordinarily different when you see them together.

my splittys being painted in january hopfully, dont know wether to just ask for jet black or get the right code

Whatever you do decide, make sure you do get a code for it in case you need to touch anything up later

does anyone know where to get the ICI codes?

thank you!

There may have been other blacks but black tends to be quite black really

SR wrote:my splittys being painted in january hopfully, dont know wether to just ask for jet black or get the right code

Steve,
if your painter gets his paint from CARS in St Peters, they were able to match and mix the right colour black for me from the BMC code :-

BMC code
BLACK
BLK 1

They had the code in their big book, went away for 10 mins and came back with the correct coloured tins of paint!!!

There may have been other blacks but black tends to be quite black really

See, now, my dad worked for a British computer company called ITL (sadly long gone); you might be wondering what this has to do with Minors, but they made the same mistake you did. Someone there thought 'oooh, black is black and white is white', so they did they're flagship range of computers in black and white modules.

Of course, what happened is when people got new modules they didn't *quite* match, which somewhat spoiled the effect. But it looked cool in the brochure...*


* which has a picture of my dad's Ford Escort saloon in it because they only had a few delivery vans so lined up all the staff cars *after* the delivery vans to get the shot of their 'fleet'

of course there's one black that ALWAYS blends with an older coat... photon sucking matt black. And while we're slightly going 40 wattwards - I've got a 40 watt t-shirt here for thee Kate. There's a new one but I don't know if it's been printed yet:

FRONT


BACK




aharrr

Here's one for Jonathan...

Hey Bg, that'll do as a 'T' shirt for the National, cheers!!!:D

Thank Guy - oh OK, my anagram

But theres no pic, we need an orange and black Jonathon... (or will the pic from 'Butch' do? ;) )