Green Badges?

[Damp Logs]

Seen a Continental R with green wheel centre caps and badges

I can’t remember the significance of the different colours - red,black, green

Anyone with a better memory than me???

[TarquinMX5]

I seem to recall that green was an anniversary, possibly '96 or?

I think red was standard, possibly black was on the T-models but I'm happy to be corrected. Having said that, I suspect that you could order any colour you wanted; for a modest consideration, of course.

I've tried to confirm it in my books but haven't found any references to it yet.

[BenTurboR]

According to https://www.rrsilverspirit.com/models/1985TurboR.h... all 1993 MY cars had the green badges. It doesn't say why, but 1993 was 70 years after the first Le Mans race in 1923, which John Duff and Frank Clement competed in with a factory prepared 3 litre, so it could have been to recognise that anniversary.

[Damp Logs]

Thanks,
It’s a 2001 car, and my recollection is that the badges were red

But as mentioned, an owner could probably ask for any colour (subject to taste controls)

Mike

[Damp Logs]

Just looked again at the link, and 2003 ‘Final Series’ cars have green badges!

[alabbasi]

The Green label Arnage models are the ones with the 4.4L BMW M62 engine an had green emblems. When they switched back to the 6 3/4 V8, they labelled those models as the red label cars which had red emblems.