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Lindsay Palmer
06 Mazda SP23
80 Alfa GTV (weekend toy)
86 626 Turbo (daily drive, now stolen)
71 cooper s replica
69 cooper replica
76 clubman
62 english 850
68 Mini Auto

Awesome! Expect some calls from The Spec.Burg.Red owners group.

Thanks for all the extra info and the cards, very interesting!

Has anyone ever come across 'New Burgundy Red'?
I'm assuming it's just another name for Special Burgundy?


Still at 31 confirmed colours for the 850s, haven't been able to find any more yet


Evan

Would also be interesting to see the difference between the earlier Burgundy and Special Burgundy.

(Poor Lindsay probably has better things to do than look through colour chips).

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68 Morris Cooper S Mk1 (*ex 78 1275 LS 4th last built, 70 Morris 1500 OHC & 70 MiniMatic)

Its funny how that burgundy comes out black on my work monitor, but at home renders very nicely as the deep burgundy it should be. The other colours don't seem to vary much between the monitors.

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It was a pleasure ausmini. I'll miss all you misfits and reprobates

This should answer the question on the two burgundy's.

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VMCI #43

Thanks winabbey, that's brilliant. That's the first mention of New Burgundy Red I've seen other than my plate - lucky we ordered Special Burgundy for touch ups haha.

Great stuff.
They replaced a couple of colours with new colours around that time and I imagine it would have been an easy mistake to make.
Cedar Green > New Cedar Green
British Racing Green > New British Racing Green
Burgundy > New, oops, Special Burgundy

That's no problem. Happy to help.

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Lindsay Palmer
06 Mazda SP23
80 Alfa GTV (weekend toy)
86 626 Turbo (daily drive, now stolen)
71 cooper s replica
69 cooper replica
76 clubman
62 english 850
68 Mini Auto

Phill, I don't mind as long as people don't mind waiting for me to find time. I'm lucky I get to call this part of my job.

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Lindsay Palmer
06 Mazda SP23
80 Alfa GTV (weekend toy)
86 626 Turbo (daily drive, now stolen)
71 cooper s replica
69 cooper replica
76 clubman
62 english 850
68 Mini Auto

Mick, I tried to get a picture which showed the colour but on my iPhone they all come out dark. You are right, the colour is a nice deep burgundy. It's a nice colour but the panel prep would need to be spot on as it would show imperfections very well.

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Lindsay Palmer
06 Mazda SP23
80 Alfa GTV (weekend toy)
86 626 Turbo (daily drive, now stolen)
71 cooper s replica
69 cooper replica
76 clubman
62 english 850
68 Mini Auto

For a paint manufacturer it's generally harder to make a mistake as we normally talk colour codes not colour names. Even today many manufactures will call the same colour a different name on different models or in different markets but the code will always remain the same.

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Lindsay Palmer
06 Mazda SP23
80 Alfa GTV (weekend toy)
86 626 Turbo (daily drive, now stolen)
71 cooper s replica
69 cooper replica
76 clubman
62 english 850
68 Mini Auto

Acacia 850 http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/322021504200

I saw this car on Saturday at the ballarat swap meet, it looked a good original car. I didn't look too much but if your after an original car this is good.

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Lindsay Palmer
06 Mazda SP23
80 Alfa GTV (weekend toy)
86 626 Turbo (daily drive, now stolen)
71 cooper s replica
69 cooper replica
76 clubman
62 english 850
68 Mini Auto

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Lindsay Palmer
06 Mazda SP23
80 Alfa GTV (weekend toy)
86 626 Turbo (daily drive, now stolen)
71 cooper s replica
69 cooper replica
76 clubman
62 english 850
68 Mini Auto