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MG Midget and Sprite Technical - British Racing Green Paint

I want to buy some BRG paint but to be honest I'm not too fussed about the MG BRG shades. They seem a bit light in colour. I was thinking about using a Jaguar BRG as it seems to be a little darker. Has anyone got their midget painted in this colour? A picture would be good to see.
Thanks,
Neil
Neil K

AFAIK there were two different shades of BRG used by BMC/BL. A lot of green Midgets were actually Brooklands Green - particularly later ones - which is also lighter than BRG.
Then there was Mallard Green in the early '70s.
Dave O'Neill 2

Mallard is nice IMO but the darker Jaguar shades draw me to the paint shop shade chart every few months

When I "redo from start", Lara will be very much deeper in shade than she is now

Wish I had a colour chip for you, someone must have.
Bill 1

Hiya Bill. I like the darker shades. Some have used Jaguar Connaught green. I'm restoring a '74 Midget at the mo and it will have a bare metal respray. Just planning ahead.
Neil K

I went with a color that really gets alot of postive looks and attention, and is refered to as BRG.

Its called ... Fairway green matalic from GM in 1997

Is got alot of stuff going on in the paint... several differant pearals, and sevaral metal flakes... but it pops...and apperantly hard to apply.

Prop
Prop

Yo Neil

Great time to get it right

I have a mate who's VERY dark green Midget was said to be a Jaguar colour, very sexy colour and another mate's MGA coupe is in a stunning, so dark it looks black in some lights, very dark BRG. That really is a turn on
Bill 1

BMC applied Connaught Green to the Austin/Morris 1100/1300 range in the 1960s.

Again, a very dark green

Dave
D MATTHEWS

Neil, mine is a Jaguar Brittish Racing green.
For the same reason as you have I wanted darker green then the MG-range had to offer.

Mine is: JAG 6039

This is also called "New Racing Green" which was also the collor used on the one-of special 50-years-MG 1975 Jubilee midget as can be seen in Terry Horlers book.
Its not the darkest green as ive seen a darker one in Holland which can be mistaken for black under certain daylight and in the evening.

Whatever collour you pick have them make a sample of it before ordering all liters.
In the recent year many paints have been changed on ingredients and not every collourcode has been adapted.
Last time i had something sprayed on my car the painter had great diffeculties having to addapt the right collourcode to the collour on my car that he sprayed himself before.


Arie de Best

Neil - My Frogeye was painted BRG in the late 80's by the guy who painted the Lloyd collection of racing C & D type Jaguars - The colour patch that came with the car is by Carrs of Birmingham (probably long gone)and is "Jaguar Racing Green" Photo attached


John M Platt

Carrs Paints used to be in Birmingham. You could see their building from the train when travelling into New St.

It seems they have relocated to Redditch, but it looks as though they no longer produce automotive paint.

http://www.carrspaints.com/index.php
Dave O'Neill 2

That's my kind of BRG John, lurrrveley

When I was a yooof my best mate worked for Carrs Paints and had some amazing colours on his Claude-Butler over the years

Small world innit
Bill 1

Hi John. I like the colour of your Frog and agree with Bill. That is the colour I was thinking about. As Arie said, dark BRG's look almost black at times. I saw this E-type on Piston Heads: http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/largepic.asp?i=2163904&noPics=4&imgsrv=1¤t=1&make=JAGUAR&model=ETYPE
The shade seems very similar to yours.
Neil K

Why not choose your colour from the RAL standard colours?

Here are a couple of links to give you an idea: <http://www.ralcolor.com/>, <http://www.ralcolor.com/ral.html>, but you'd be best to refer to a proper colour chart of gloss colours from a vehicle paint manufacturer as all colours are not attainable in a particular type of coating.

Using a standard reference would make it easier if/when you need to match in the future. RAL 7016 looks close?
Peter B

Mine is a 2002 BRG used on Jag/Aston Martin. Looks black in low light and a very rich deep green in the full sun.
Trevor Jessie

This was my car painted in a Jaguar racing green, If I remember I had a choice of two at the time and went for the darker shade. It would look black when in the shade but on a bright day when it was clean and shiny it looked great.
The next time I painted the car I went for a metalic green which I felt brought out the shape of the car better.

Carl


C Bintcliffe

Carl, mettalic?

Was that in your "disco/Iggy Stardust-days"?
LOL!!
Arie de Best

Soooo many BRGs but I have to agree, the dark Jaguar ones look the best I've seen... Another colour I really like is the Ecosse Blue.

Mark.
M T Boldry

Mark, Ecosse blue is nice indeed, thinking of a particular Jacobs midgetperhaps? :)

My favorit still is gun-metall...


Arie de Best

Hello Neil.
My Midget in Brooklands Green.


Keith Davies

BRG is a category rather than a specific colour. That said, the shade I have seen that I liked the best was on an MGB. The owner said that he had asked for the Jaguar BRG and then specified that they remove the white component. Really was sharp.
David "no photos" Lieb
David Lieb

Mine is the darker of the factory shades of BRG, which is GN29 if i remeber correctly. Nowhere near as dark as the Jaguar greens.

Arie, my boss used to have a Cobra replica in gunmetal, that looked awesome.
MarkH1

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