1275 GT thread

[WMU 211G]

They certainly are , this one turned up on Facebook recently for very cheap money and was snapped up ….

Very nice - proper period plates too and a rear wiper kit added on.

[Pete]

Is that Bracken or Bronze?

Not bronze it will be bracken
from hazy memory i think this car was a Mreg or Nreg

So i think Bracken is slightly newer than bronze ??

This one was Bracken I owned for a brief period…looks Bronze in the photo but is a lighter / later colour. Sandglow was even later / lighter

[Pete]

There were some nice colour choices in the 70s , this is Astral Blue Metallic

[nick@dunsdale]

There were some nice colour choices in the 70s , this is Astral Blue Metallic

There was also that kinda green'y colour as well
Mustard'y Green is about the closest i can describe it

Can recall what the colour was called though and dont recall seeing many in the colour

EDIT....

Was bugging had to do some deep searching lol it was possibly this colour though still doesnt look quite right but that could just be because of digital photos and enhancements and computer screens

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[mab01uk]

There were some nice colour choices in the 70s , this is Astral Blue Metallic

There was also that kinda green'y colour as well
Mustard'y Green is about the closest i can describe it

Can recall what the colour was called though and dont recall seeing many in the colour

EDIT....

Was bugging had to do some deep searching lol it was possibly this colour though still doesnt look quite right but that could just be because of digital photos and enhancements and computer screens

Anything close here?

Mini Colours:-
http://www.mini-colours.co.uk/colours.php?m=1&b=10

BLVC228 Applejack (HMS) ?

[nick@dunsdale]

There were some nice colour choices in the 70s , this is Astral Blue Metallic

There was also that kinda green'y colour as well
Mustard'y Green is about the closest i can describe it

Can recall what the colour was called though and dont recall seeing many in the colour

EDIT....

Was bugging had to do some deep searching lol it was possibly this colour though still doesnt look quite right but that could just be because of digital photos and enhancements and computer screens

Anything close here?

Mini Colours:-
http://www.mini-colours.co.uk/colours.php?m=1&b=10

BLVC228 Applejack (HMS) ?

BLVC213
Avocado

Looks close to my memory

[Pete]

There was a colour guide on Mark’s (now removed) website that Big Stu sent in. I’ll ask Stu if he’s still got it.

[Pete]

Cyril Bolton in an early GT, and in SJW 803S one of the batch of factory motorsport cars that included at least one of Longman’s racers (SJW 807S) and Chris Inch’s Challenge car too (SJW 804S). The series was from 802 to 811 as far as I know, trying to find the rest!

[Pete]

The Inch family are taking Chris’s SJW 804S to Castle Combe this weekend for the Gerry Marshall Trophy

[Old English White]

There were some nice colour choices in the 70s , this is Astral Blue Metallic

There was also that kinda green'y colour as well
Mustard'y Green is about the closest i can describe it

Can recall what the colour was called though and dont recall seeing many in the colour

EDIT....

Was bugging had to do some deep searching lol it was possibly this colour though still doesnt look quite right but that could just be because of digital photos and enhancements and computer screens


Screenshot 2024-09-20 131546.png

Tundra?? BLVC94?

[Costafortune]

Tundra?? BLVC94?

Spot on!

[nick@dunsdale]

Tundra?? BLVC94?

Spot on!

That was it !!
Finally found one lol

[Peter Laidler]

Tundra....... Didn't they know how to pick 'em......., the colours I mean. My wifes friend had a Tundra mini. It looked like it was on the advance into Berlin in 1945!

[Old English White]

I was working for a BL dealer at the time and still have a fairly good memory for the models and colours of the day.
Sadly, I can't remember what I had for lunch though
As an aside, I think Tundra was newly introduced at the same time as "Bracken" which we were discussing earlier.

[wantafaster1]

Cyril Bolton in an early GT, and in SJW 803S one of the batch of factory motorsport cars that included at least one of Longman’s racers (SJW 807S) and Chris Inch’s Challenge car too (SJW 804S). The series was from 802 to 811 as far as I know, trying to find the rest!

There's an SJW series of works TR7s I think, without googling

Edit, no I'm talking rubbish, there were only two

[snoopy64]

Yes there is …TR7 Sprints

[Pete]

Contestants used the SJW …S batch of 1275GTs in the final episode of the Noel Edmonds’ driver of the year show, I think the race was at Cadwell. Apparently the cars were first registered to Longbridge engineering department and were sold off after the show exclusively to competition drivers.

[Costafortune]

Leyland Cars registered a few hundred cars with the SJW prefix from Minis to Rover SD1's. I think a few Jags as well.

[mab01uk]

[Costafortune]

Another SJW, this time an 1100 Clubman in Inca yellow on Denovo wheels.

With it is another blast from the past, Joanne Latham who was a Page 3 girl in the late 70's. The good old days. Don't Google all at once.