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rich@minispares.com wrote:

foxy52 wrote:I dunno what black tulip is in any event i.m colourblind .

its neither black, or tulip - its a sort of dark purple colour, very nice actually

...ahhh sooo !!! very nice ,sounds like a Radford or wp colour ..tks for info foxy52

foxy52 wrote:

rich@minispares.com wrote:

foxy52 wrote:I dunno what black tulip is in any event i.m colourblind .

its neither black, or tulip - its a sort of dark purple colour, very nice actually

...ahhh sooo !!! very nice ,sounds like a Radford or wp colour ..tks for info foxy52

It is actually just a standard British Leyland colour used across pretty much the entire model range in the early 1970s
I think the colour code is BLVC23. Might have been introduced just after "S" production finished which would explain the lack of Mk3"S" cars in that colour? As has been said, quite an attractive period colour, a very dark purple . I recall a lot of MGBs and Marinas in that get-up among others.

Here's my ex's RWA midget about 1986,K-reg,birds were the same back then chosen by colour not fit/function


Yes that's my Tiv