Cooper green .who,s is it?

[Twin pipe]

cooper green code P168. Can anyone tell me if this is the rover British racing green ?
Thankyou.

[Propero]

Well, I tried Rover BRG on my Cooper Green Griff and it looked too dark to me...

[Big Al.]

Twin pipe said:

cooper green code P168. Can anyone tell me if this is the rover British racing green ? Thankyou.

Why do you ask?

[RichB]

If you are really interested I can dig out a web site which tells you every car that used a particular paint. Yes Cooper Green was used by some model year Rovers and (I think) some Hondas, whioch would make sense. Rich...

[shpub]

There are about 30 different British Racing Greens... I know one paint supplier that has a BRG book full of sample... Best thing is to get a paint match or source some paint using the body/paint code.

[RichB]

I ordered a spray-can of Cooper Green paint for around £6.00 from Autopaint St Helens. www.auto-paint.co.uk I finally decided the generic colour code for TVR Cooper Green is P442-2382B

p.s. There is a fantastic on-line colour code identifier on Nexa Autocolour web site www.ppg.com/nexaautocolor/index.html it has lists of every colour ever used and cross references them with different manufacturers, however I just took a quick look to give you the URL and I see you now need to register to use it, it may be worth doing so though? Rich...


>> Edited by RichB on Thursday 20th November 10:07