Is anyone good with colours?
Discussion
I ask this because I am completely useless with recognising good colour matches!
The car currently has no paint, just getting ready to put the etch primer on.
The seats have been retrimmed in pale green which was the original colour, so that's a fixed point and the paint needs to match.
The car was originally cream so that is an option. I've always intended to do in yellow because that's #1 daughters favourite colour and she's the only one in the house apart from me who has much enthusiasm for it.
This is a similar car, probably in white not cream. I might chicken out on yellow and go for cream, but it's not that exciting and there are a few white and cream cars about.
The intended colour was YL3 like this but I'm having second thoughts as it's a big car and there's lots of yellow there and it seems a bit bright for 1951, although yellow is a pre war colour, I've seen A7s and veterans using it.
Plan 97 was to go for the later Spridget/MGB colour YL12.
Any opinions?
The car currently has no paint, just getting ready to put the etch primer on.
The seats have been retrimmed in pale green which was the original colour, so that's a fixed point and the paint needs to match.
The car was originally cream so that is an option. I've always intended to do in yellow because that's #1 daughters favourite colour and she's the only one in the house apart from me who has much enthusiasm for it.
This is a similar car, probably in white not cream. I might chicken out on yellow and go for cream, but it's not that exciting and there are a few white and cream cars about.
The intended colour was YL3 like this but I'm having second thoughts as it's a big car and there's lots of yellow there and it seems a bit bright for 1951, although yellow is a pre war colour, I've seen A7s and veterans using it.
Plan 97 was to go for the later Spridget/MGB colour YL12.
Any opinions?
It's a Healey. Abbott or Tickford I would say.
Colour is a very personal thing of course.
You have limited yourself in trimming the seats in green, that's the one thing I would definitely have changed.
Yellow would be too much IMHO. You could go for a subtle silver-green as per the period Aston Martins (Sage Green) or even a dark colour such as a BRG. Gunmetal may be another option.
Better still choose a body colour you really like and have the seats re-trimmed
Colour is a very personal thing of course.
You have limited yourself in trimming the seats in green, that's the one thing I would definitely have changed.
Yellow would be too much IMHO. You could go for a subtle silver-green as per the period Aston Martins (Sage Green) or even a dark colour such as a BRG. Gunmetal may be another option.
Better still choose a body colour you really like and have the seats re-trimmed
If you are trying to chose between cream and yellow it might be worth trying to find out what colour the original cream was, because 1950s cream wasn't the same colour as we tend to think of as being cream now. Don't think in terms of the whipped stuff that comes out of a spray can, think of the what floats to the top of a non-homogenised bottle of gold top milk (from Jersey or Guernsey cows) and preferably one where you can buy it straight from the farm. Even then the colour will vary depending on the time of year (which affects the amount of carotene in the grass IIRC). Anyway, it might be almost as yellow as the picture of the Sprite you show.
I think there was a discussion about this a few years back here on Pistonheads, either in the "Classic Cars and Yesterday's Heroes" or in the Jaguar forums. I've also seen discussions on Jag-lovers in the XK forum.
Try typing "colour of cream" into Google and see what it shows.
I think there was a discussion about this a few years back here on Pistonheads, either in the "Classic Cars and Yesterday's Heroes" or in the Jaguar forums. I've also seen discussions on Jag-lovers in the XK forum.
Try typing "colour of cream" into Google and see what it shows.
The coupe was known as the "Tickford" (with extra "moustache" grilles either side of the radiator grille)
and the drophead coupe was called the "Abbott" (usually with inset driving lamps instead of grilles).
It's also possible that Tickford made a few DHCs and Abbott made a few FHCs, as they were all low-volume handbuilt bodies.
There was also the "Westland" roadster
and the ugly "Elliott" saloon.
and the drophead coupe was called the "Abbott" (usually with inset driving lamps instead of grilles).
It's also possible that Tickford made a few DHCs and Abbott made a few FHCs, as they were all low-volume handbuilt bodies.
There was also the "Westland" roadster
and the ugly "Elliott" saloon.
Edited by Roy C on Wednesday 4th November 14:44
Roy C said:
The coupe was known as the "Tickford" (with extra "moustache" grilles either side of the radiator grille)and the drophead coupe was called the "Abbott" (usually with inset driving lamps instead of grilles).
Early Tickfords and Abbotts (C chassis) had driving lights. Late ones (BT and F Chassis) had triangular grilles. Due to the small production batches which were very rarely the same as the previous batch there may be some blurring of this near the changeover but in general it's true.
Roy C said:
It's also possible that Tickford made a few DHCs and Abbott made a few FHCs, as they were all low-volume handbuilt bodies.
I have never heard of a Tickford DHC (apart from mine because I cut the roof off 
) or an Abbott FHC and the club records don't have any mention of them.Well, for the moment the indecisive decision is that I'm going for gold top milk type cream, at least as far as painting one panel and then make the final decision - for the cost of a litre of paint it's worth trying as I won't know until I see it on the car. Will report back in a few weeks!
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