PaintScratch paint supplier has colour chips (mostly very good) and codes.AutoColour's library of MG paint charts (select 'ahmg' and the year).He does have examples of colours and codes used in Australia which aren't available from Clausager. However he frequently states an MGB colour was in use from 1963 to 1980 but this is incorrect, only Black was available throughout. Paul Tegler's colours page which includes pictures of many cars a lot of which are a good match to the chips on my monitor at least. For the scans of his original DuPont (Canada) documents click here.
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Full details of the colours, BL and manufacturers codes, and years and models used are below. The relationship between the colours should, in theory, still be relevant but maybe some of the chips themselves have changed colour over the years because although most are as I remember them some are less so.
You must bear in mind that these are scans of period documents, displayed on your monitor, and both the scanning and display is subject to electronic 'interpretation'. I am very grateful to Craig Quenneville for taking the trouble to scan and mail me a set of original paint chip charts. Not much was said and we all left, leaving Bill Bailly and the Planning Department with a difficult submarine recovery operation. It came down into the primer but, due to the trapped air in the upper panels, floated off the mechanical line hooks, which moved on alone, leaving the body to slowly and gracefully sink to the bottom of the vat. He writes "Paint representatives and management gathered to watch the first body through the revised process. So ICI suggested a deeper tank which would take the whole body. However that left a line on the bonnet which had to be hand feathered. Originally ICI suggested a tank which dipped the body up to bulkhead level, and the panels above that would be hand-sprayed. Re-reading Don Hayter's 'MGB Story' I have come across several amusing snippets involving the development of the MGB, and one concerns dip-priming the body.
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