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Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 10:32 am
by WMU 211G
Pete wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 8:41 am
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.
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 10:32 am
by Pete
nick@dunsdale wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:58 am
Pete wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 2:47 pm
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
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 10:34 am
by Pete
There were some nice colour choices in the 70s , this is Astral Blue Metallic
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 1:13 pm
by nick@dunsdale
Pete wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 10:34 am
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
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 1:53 pm
by mab01uk
nick@dunsdale wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 1:13 pm
Pete wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 10:34 am
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) ?
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 2:22 pm
by nick@dunsdale
mab01uk wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 1:53 pm
nick@dunsdale wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 1:13 pm
Pete wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 10:34 am
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
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 2:55 pm
by 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.
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:16 pm
by 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!
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:20 pm
by Pete
The Inch family are taking Chris’s SJW 804S to Castle Combe this weekend for the Gerry Marshall Trophy
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:25 pm
by Old English White
nick@dunsdale wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 1:13 pm
Pete wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 10:34 am
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?
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:43 pm
by Costafortune
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:03 pm
by nick@dunsdale
That was it !!
Finally found one lol
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 5:07 pm
by 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!
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 5:07 pm
by 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.
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 8:52 pm
by wantafaster1
Pete wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 3:16 pm
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
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 8:54 pm
by snoopy64
Yes there is …TR7 Sprints
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:56 pm
by 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.
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2024 9:44 am
by 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.
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2024 11:40 am
by mab01uk
Re: 1275 GT thread
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 6:59 pm
by 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.
