30-01-2018, 10:35 PM
(30-01-2018, 10:18 PM)Mike Costigan Wrote: Hello Mick! It must be forty-five years since I last saw your brown tourer.
The Association Archive has a set of colour cards from 1936:
http://archive.a7ca.org/collections/pain...em/PC0007/?
From memory this seems to be a lighter colour than your car, but as far as I can tell Austin only produced one Auto Brown, although this may have changed shades over the years. In 1932 Auto Brown was a stock colour for the tourer mated to a Black waist-band:
http://archive.a7ca.org/collections/pain...em/PC0007/?
Hello Mike,
I think it's actually nearer 50 years!
Your're right in that when you saw my car it was dark brown, in fact it's still wearing the same, now very tatty, paint job. It's the colour I gave it in 1968, which I knew at the time was much darker than the original but it was all I could easily get. I think it was a 1960s Rover 2000 brown!
My tourer will very soon be getting a repaint, hopefully as near as possible to the original shade of (lighter) brown. Hence my request for help with a correct colour match.
I had already seen the Archive colour cards. I am certain that the 1936 brown is much darker than that which was on my 1932 Tourer.