Colour change
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 2:52 pm
I bought my better half a 1959 Tourer in cream with her as the third keepers and a genuine 54000 miles. I was convinced it was the original colour with a red interior and hood (checked under carpets, trims etc and all cream). I just couldn’t get my head around the grey hood frame though, so I sent for a Heritage certificate for the supplying details. Turns out the car was originally sage green with green trim and hood, which looking at photographs usually came with a grey hood frame (puzzle solved). We have loads of paperwork with the car back to the fifties, but no mention of a colour change. We like the cream colour so it’s not a problem but I was fascinated with what would have made a complete colour change necessary. Eventually managed to locate and write (pen not email) to the widow of the original owner who told us via her son that in the sixties her husband bumped one of the front wings and took it in for repair where he saw a new Tourer in Old English White with red trim and hood, so the repair became a complete colour and trim change to match the car he’d seen.
My apologies if you’ve nodded off while reading this geeky stuff
My apologies if you’ve nodded off while reading this geeky stuff