A couple of shades of grey

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A couple of shades of grey

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I'm about to paint the roof on my Almond green /white Mk1.
What I'd like to do is to paint the roof dark grey. I've considered dove and tweed, but I'd really like something a bit darker.

Does anyone know of any dark grey colours from different BMC vehicles? I'd like to use such.

Anyone?
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Hi Vegard,
Grampian grey and Carlton grey are both darker BMC colours from the period,
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1997 mini Yukon Grey is quite dark.

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Yukon Grey goes back to the 60's.
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Thanks guys. Grampian looks quite good...

http://www.mgexp.com/article/bmc-paint.html

I now see that I asked almost the same question on the Mini Cooper register a year ago :oops:
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Grey over Almond Green will look awesome.

How about GR11 Farina Grey - not terribly dark though if I remember correctly, and then there's BLVC619 Nimbus Grey that Austin Rover used for the grey painted Mini bumpers of the '80s - it's quite dark.
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Grampian grey is a beautiful shade. I had a 1968 MGB in that color.
Farina grey is a very light shade of grey. My A40 Farina is um, er, Farina grey...the seller thought it was light brown, initially I thought it was a dark OE white!
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Series 2 land rover grey is quite dark but can't remember the code for it.
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No idea what shade you would call this...but it's a very rough photoshop I did a few years ago when I was contemplating what colours to use on my own car!
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The thing is with a grey roof it you get it wrong it will look like its still in primer . Did it myself few years ago and everybody said to me when am I going to paint the roof . So I changed the roof colour to fiesta yellow over / almond green and it really seem to lift it . Only my opinion , it's just that the race car does look exactly like primer
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