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MG MGA - Old English White variations?

This question concerns my midget, but I believe you MGA people may know more about it.

The copy on a Moss aerosol can I have says that the colour is "late" Old English White. Code is WT3A. It seems to be identical to the spots I find with original paint on my ´61 Midget - under the shock absorbers etc. Does anyone know what the difference is between "early" and "late" Old English White, and when the change took place?

(BTW my MGA project is Chariot Red. That is an uncomplicated colour, I guess?)

Tore
Tore

Tore,

this might help

http://www.mgcars.org/MGA/mgapaint.html

Mark
Mark Hester

As far as I know, MGA used only WT3 for Old English White. If there is or was a different "Early" Old English White, it must be a Midget color, nothing to do with MGA (so I dunno nuttin about it).
Barney Gaylord

All the sources I have found indicate that WT3 is the code for OEW on Midgets too. Never found anything else in books, on the web etc.

Quoting from my own last post on the Midget board, where I have also put this question:

The colour code on the Moss aerosol is CCWT3A, and as I said above it is described on the can as "late" OEW. I have now compared this colour to two different paints that are both coded Old English White WT3. One was mixed in a paint shop last year, the other was mixed in the same shop at least ten years ago.

Both these paints are a lot whiter than the one in the spray can. By comparison the aerosol paint is more beige than white. But it does seem to match the small areas of original paint better than the other two, so it seems there has been a change in colour specification sometime. The Heritage certificate shows that my car left the factory in OEW.

I like the two whiter ones better, though...

Tore
Tore

OEW is more Beige than White. I often refer to it with the common American color name "Cream". It is very obviously NOT white and not supposed to be white.
Barney Gaylord

This thread was discussed between 12/10/2009 and 13/10/2009

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