[Staowners] Silly question?

[Mal Clark]

Hi Ramon,I think you car would possible have been Alpine Mist,I can remember a couple of my Alpines in hidden place like you mention of being horrid green colour metallics in those days didn't last very long at all,if it would help you I have Alpine Mist paint in 2 pack system,I can send you a sprayed example, on a card if that helps,Alpine Mist is a  blue.green.silver colour, competition department refered to the works cars, as Silver they were all Alpine Mist, Mal Clark
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ramon Spontelli 
  To: Mal Clark 
  Cc: Staowners at sunbeamtalbot.info 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:08 PM
  Subject: Re: [Staowners] Silly question?


  Oh MAN! . . . 

  Thank you, Mal.

  I've always planned to paint our "Proper 'Pine" a silver of some sort, but just recently started wondering exactly what the original color was.  The body was all stripped, primered, and started to take to surface rust when we got it.  There's a good patch of what appears to be "original" paint in the central part of the trunk/boot lid, but what's there would best be described as a "putrid-butt-UGLY green."  

  It's tough to imagine somebody ordering up new, or even picking off the lot a "putrid-butt-UGLY green" Alpine, unless perhaps it was the very last one left.  Could it have really been that bad when it was new?  If I could get a lead on a color name or code, maybe I could find out what it really looked like?

  The later Alpines and Tigers all have color codes on the VIN tag--Nice colorful colors like Sage Green, Smoke Green, Velvet Green, Glade Green . . . and Sheerwood Green Metalic. All names and colors that might be researched and found out.  It sounds like I would not be able to squirt the car the original color even if I wanted to, excluding the possibility of having what's left on the underside of the trunk/boot lid matched . . . which is NOT an option!

  Oh well . . . 

  Ramon




   

    -----Original Message----- 
    From: Mal Clark 
    Sent: Mar 3, 2008 8:03 PM 
    To: Ramon Spontelli 
    Cc: Staowners at sunbeamtalbot.info 
    Subject: Re: [Staowners] Silly question? 

     
    Hi Ramon,you will not find any colour codes at all on your Sunbeam Alpine,in their wisdom years ago.you just ordered the colour of your car,white was Ivory ,blue was Saphire Blue,silvery blue was Alpine Mist, Red was Coronation red,etc,think there was a green and black,but vey few colours to choose from, so that didnt appear to be a problem then,I think in the parts list,it gives you the part number for those colours,thats what you ordered,of course the problem arises now where the original colour has long gone,a good source I found was under the top lining on the glove box lid,if you remove the lining, the original colour should be there, good luck, Mal Clark.
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Ramon Spontelli 
      To: Staowners at sunbeamtalbot.info 
      Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:36 PM
      Subject: [Staowners] Silly question?


      All this anticipation about the forthcoming starting handle flap has me thinking funny thoughts . . . To wit: How do you determine the original color code for our cars?  

      Mine, a '54 Alpine, does not seem to have anything but the ID number stamped on the VIN plate.  Is the color code attached somewhere else?

      Ramon





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