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24/08/2009 10:55 pm
Colour info needed for MG EX record cars of the 1950's!
In the 1950's there have been quite a few "MG" record cars:
1950 EX135 > British Racing Green?
1954 EX179 > Austin Healey
1956 EX179
1957 EX179
1957 EX181 > metallic green and/or metallic blue?
1959 EX181
1959 EX219 > Austin Healey Sprite > two-tone
I am trying to get my records complete. It is not too difficult to find which records were set by which driver, where etc..., but to get the correct colours for the correct record breaker!
EX181 has been seen in silver, metallic green, metallic blue, without any tailfin, with small tailfin, with a larger tailfin etc...
It gets difficult! People did not really take note of those colours, and the few colour pictures |I have found seem contradictory.
Any information is very welcome for which my thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Arie
25/08/2009 12:25 am
Arie - I just got the Bizarre Ex181, which is a metallic blue-green
It's the 1957 car with tail fin. In 1959 it ran without a tail fin, and I have that version in a somewhat light metallic green (like the Le Mans MGA coupes). I've seen a painting of this car just like this. I've also seen the metallic teal on another '57 version by another maker. I'm wondering if it's possible that MG changed colors between the 1957 and 1959 runs?
26/08/2009 8:44 pm
Not impossible that they changed colours. However my biggest puzzle at this point in time is that I see the 1957 car in both the metallic blue AND the metallic green.
Most pictures show it to be green, as are most models, but the 08/1957 cover of Road & Track shows metallic blue against green grass, so I do not think it is a lighting/printing error.
Thanks for your input Harvey!
Cheers,
Arie