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MG Midget and Sprite General - The true color of my car

I always thought my car started its like the color of brooklands green. But removing the seam seal I noticed a color that resembles Sandglow. what do you guys/gals thinks

K Samen

two..

K Samen

three.. Sand glow on a B

K Samen

four.. My Car... A true green???

K Samen

My opinion...A really NICE restroation job..

If it was that sand color, you should be vary Appreicative of the craftmanship of the person that did all that work

My guess as to the give away is the green overspray on the chassie parts in photo #2


its a nice car, I wouldnt kick it out of the shop.

was it sold to you as orginal paint?


Prop
Prop

What year is your car?
Sandglow was only on Midgets in '76 and '77

This site is a great resource on paint and anything else MG:
http://www.teglerizer.com/mgcolors/index.html#Yellow color
Phil Burke

it is hard to tell from your pics, but the color that I am seeing (especially in the 2nd one) is the same as what is on the underside of my car (original color Bronze yellow) once i remove the factory sealant and anywhere in fact that body paint wasn't sprayed (bodies were sprayed fully assembled so things like inner fender wells only got what I guess is a factory primer. It is a sort of yellow color identical to what I see in your second pic. I am guessing you are just seeing places that were never painted over. that would be consistent with what i saw on my car.

the best way to find out definitively what the original color of your car was from the factory is to purchase a heritage certificate from British Motor Heritage.
Chris Edwards

A lot of these cars had an undercoat that wasn't anything close to the topcoat. I always had the feeling that they used surplus paint for these, since they were frequently recognizable as an earlier or other BMC model colour (usually a nasty colour you could understand being a thing that would be leftover!). It was generally harder and smoother than a primer, but not as shiny as a topcoat, so I think they reblended it for topcoat adhesion. This goes back to MGA/Magnette at least and up to end of production.
I never did a systematic collection of data, but some combinations recurred enough to remember. These combinations may not appear on every car of any topcoat, but I've seen all I give. Dark blue MGB & Spridget were typically a pink underneath - this looked like the MGA "Alamo Beige" which everyone agreed was pink. Dark green were a lighter green, red were sometimes a different colour of red, darker yellow/oranges frequently had a lighter version of the same or similar colour as the topcoat. Black or white were solid top colour.

FRM
FR Millmore

My car is a 1977, so the sandglow would still be possible. The only place I see this color is in the wheel wells and under the frame. So maybe the car is truly green after all.....
K Samen

I've seen the same thing on my car, originally Flamenco Red and now black: http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/safety_fast/4609229403/sizes/m/in/set-72157623942645649/

-:G:-
Gryf Ketcherside

Wasnt the old school primer used on these a sandy colour?
PeterJMoore

Thats what I say, Peter. All the places where factory primer is visible on my car it is that color a sandy yellow/tan
Chris Edwards

This thread was discussed on 16/02/2011

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