I believe the Hines/Pryor 1962 Marcos Gullwing car that ran at Le Mans that year was black. I wonder where that car is now?
I don't plan to use metallic unless I use gold as an accent colour -- there was of course the famous Lotus Elan "Gold Bug" (Ian Walker car?) but using gold as a base colour seems a bit much for our little Marcos.
I do very much like -- always have -- some of the grey-green colours the Aston Martin race cars used in the 1960s on the DB3s and DB4GTs & Zagaotos. It's quite different from BRG.
That said, I do like the current (American) colour scheme of white with blue stripes, but since the price will be the same regardless of the colour choosen, I feel it's prudent to explore all possibilities.
Best Regards,
Ady
To: marcosmaniacs@yahoogroups.com
From: ricp@...
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:12:37 +0000
Subject: RE: [MarcosManiacs] The Gullwing is mechanically completed!
On 10 Jan 2009 Andy&Alison Seward wrote:
> please feel free to comment on a color scheme for the Gullwing. I
> welcome your ideas. I want colors (UK: colours) that are period
> correct for early 1960s racecars and a paint scheme that suits the
> Gullwing's lines. Comments?
I don't think there were any standard colours apart from variations on
British Racing Green with stripes. They were mostly cellulose with
painted on stripes and signwriting - no vynils in those days (although
Letraset may have been around). Metallic paints were rare, except for
BRM and Aston-Martin.
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Richard Porter M I N I M A R C O S O W N E R S C L U B
Webmaster/Archivist MINI JEM * KINGFISHER SPRINT * MINI SPECIALS
ricp@minimarcos.org.uk http://www.minimarcos.org.uk/
> please feel free to comment on a color scheme for the Gullwing. I
> welcome your ideas. I want colors (UK: colours) that are period
> correct for early 1960s racecars and a paint scheme that suits the
> Gullwing's lines. Comments?
I don't think there were any standard colours apart from variations on
British Racing Green with stripes. They were mostly cellulose with
painted on stripes and signwriting - no vynils in those days (although
Letraset may have been around). Metallic paints were rare, except for
BRM and Aston-Martin.
--
Richard Porter M I N I M A R C O S O W N E R S C L U B
Webmaster/Archivist MINI JEM * KINGFISHER SPRINT * MINI SPECIALS
ricp@minimarcos.org.uk http://www.minimarcos.org.uk/
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