Morris Minor Owners Club

Does anyone know what colour my newly bought minor is its a 1967
Ive had a can of dove grey mixed but its shades off so am a bit stuck.
Heres a pic of the the differance

It looks like a light shade of Rose Taupe . Could be if 1967 , it was phased out in 1968

Difficult to tell but CW's guide and posts on the site may help

http://www.morrisminor.org.uk/index.php ... hemes.html

http://www.morrisminor.org.uk/images/st ... _codes.pdf

If you contact the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust (BMIHT) at Gaydon in the West Mids they can provide you with a certificate from a production trace of the BMC registers, that should include the paint code and therefore colour. as well as other interesting info on your car. There is a charge, quite steep some may say and it can include on the certificate, an applicant supplied photograph It is quite a useful document to have.

Alternatively, you can source the info free yourself (you do not get a certificate), by attending personally archives at the reading room at Gaydon. The museum is a very good day out, whether in a Minor or otherwise.

And,of course, the original paintwork may have faded and will not match to a standard colour..

Thanks for the reply heres a proper picture. Few flakey bits around the car beneath is a greenish grey. The beneath that looks like the original paint which matches the colour it is now.

Bottom picture does seem to show a shade of Rose Taupe.
If in doubt take your boot lid to a paint suppliers and have it scanned and computer matched.
My "Black" Series II turned out to have been repainted with Volkswagen/Audi/Skoda "Ebony Schwartz 041"

To match the original colour take something internal and unlikely have been repainted i.e. glove box lid, ashtray surround .

its just my luck that the glove box lids have been painted red thats why i need a colour match haha
in person it is a bright grey, not like a dirty grey. it wouldnt bother me if it wasnt the original shade. but it matches beneath the light green colour it was once painted. so grey to green back to grey.

does anyone have the original paint code for 1967 dove grey so i can compare

this may help

http://www.morrisminor.org.uk/images/st ... _codes.pdf

or this

http://www.morrisminorforum.com/article/bmc-paint.html

thanks
so the can i have is 34gr rover dover grey not gr26 ill get the proper one mixed and take it from there

I think looking at the paint revealed on the slam panel that the original is Dove Grey . Keep us posted!

I have never known how to pronounce Rose Taupe! Or even exactly what colour it is!

TAWP or towp, you takes your pick. La Taupe (towp) is french for a mole.

Pronounced Rose Tawp and is a slightly reddish shade of suede or mink brown.
Search online images for a better look.

Thanks fellas. I shall now mention it in conversation at every available opportunity!

Its one of those pony aspirational names that marketing 'experts' give to products in the hope that they will sell to us uninformed consumers. Rather like IKEA using all incomprehensible Swedish names for their products when in fact they probably mean 'gristle' and 'snot' etc. A case in point was Ford using exotic Spanish / Italian names for its cars in the 60's / 70's Fiesta / Cortina/ Capri / Transit (lol)

firedrake1942 wrote:I think looking at the paint revealed on the slam panel that the original is Dove Grey . Keep us posted!

Agreed. 99% sure its GR26 Dove Grey. Rose Taupe is considerably darker.

Unfortunately both Dove Grey and Rose Taupe were made with Cherokee red upholstery so that doesn't help us distinguish. Gaydon will give you a definitive answer. If you do not want to pay for a full certificate they will answer a question for a reduced fee (£6.00) and are very helpful.

https://www.britishmotormuseum.co.uk/ar ... n-services

Just had a can of gr26 dove grey mixed and its a perfect match