Jaguar Racing Green
Discussion
Right so here's the deal.....
Since I'm graduating uni and getting a real job and can't really be arsed paying back the student loan just yet, I'm thinking about the possibility of giving the TR7 (or possibly even buying another shell) to do a complete ground-up bare-metal rebuild on. I'm probably going to keep the factory Pendelican White colour as nothing else really appeals to me but there is one colour I'd be interested in looking up: Jaguar Racing Green (you know, the colour Jaguar's all-too-slow F1 cars are plastered in)
I'm a big fan of Green, BRG in particular but apart from the traditional shades of green that look great on an older car, theres nothing really stand-outish enough that I feel suits the more modern (don't laugh) shape of the TR7. I'm not after a real "in your face GREEN! green", more of something that's a lot more subtle, but different thing ans seeing as Jaguar's F1 cars look AWESOME with seemingly almost every shade of dark-mid green in a rather tasteful flip-flop I'm keen to at least have a look and possibly see if it's not possible to get this colour.
I've had a look on Mr O-Boyle's wonderful TVR Colour registry site and it's down at the moment so I can't be sure if any of you out there have been brave (or drunk, stupid, eccentric etc) enough to drape your esteemed TVR in this colour but I'd like to know. If any of you out there in PH land could offer any information should you know of any road cars painted in this colour/what they look like etc. I know the paint is a Du Pont Automotive Finish (as Du Pont sponsor Jag F1) if that gives any clues.
Any info? Or am I just completely bonkers?
Since I'm graduating uni and getting a real job and can't really be arsed paying back the student loan just yet, I'm thinking about the possibility of giving the TR7 (or possibly even buying another shell) to do a complete ground-up bare-metal rebuild on. I'm probably going to keep the factory Pendelican White colour as nothing else really appeals to me but there is one colour I'd be interested in looking up: Jaguar Racing Green (you know, the colour Jaguar's all-too-slow F1 cars are plastered in)
I'm a big fan of Green, BRG in particular but apart from the traditional shades of green that look great on an older car, theres nothing really stand-outish enough that I feel suits the more modern (don't laugh) shape of the TR7. I'm not after a real "in your face GREEN! green", more of something that's a lot more subtle, but different thing ans seeing as Jaguar's F1 cars look AWESOME with seemingly almost every shade of dark-mid green in a rather tasteful flip-flop I'm keen to at least have a look and possibly see if it's not possible to get this colour.
I've had a look on Mr O-Boyle's wonderful TVR Colour registry site and it's down at the moment so I can't be sure if any of you out there have been brave (or drunk, stupid, eccentric etc) enough to drape your esteemed TVR in this colour but I'd like to know. If any of you out there in PH land could offer any information should you know of any road cars painted in this colour/what they look like etc. I know the paint is a Du Pont Automotive Finish (as Du Pont sponsor Jag F1) if that gives any clues.
Any info? Or am I just completely bonkers?
was www.o-boyle.com but seems to be offline at the mo. I bought his last cascade blue tvr. Once you have owned a car with this colour everything else is monotone thereafter.
woolfie said: was www.o-boyle.com but seems to be offline at the mo. I bought his last cascade blue tvr. Once you have owned a car with this colour everything else is monotone thereafter.
Are you sure?
I get a blue screen with the choice of about ten poems about various stuff??
Adlestrop
Yes, I remember Adlestrop -
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop - only the name
And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry.
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
Edward Thomas
What a lovely poem. 
Esprit, I'm just finishing off the type of project you envisage for your TR7, but with a TR6. A colour you might consider is Triumph Mallard Blue, which is actually very dark green. Looks great, and is quite unusual. A good metallic match for that colour is BMW Oxford Green. Get the earlier shade because they changed it for a less rich hue in about 95. It was my colour choice for the TR, until I decided to go original with Sapphire blue, then decided that was bit flat so went with a metallic match of the same colour (Audi Europa Blue Perl, LZ5T).
I worried more over the colour than any other aspect of the project. Get it wrong and you're £3000 down the chute.
Esprit, I'm just finishing off the type of project you envisage for your TR7, but with a TR6. A colour you might consider is Triumph Mallard Blue, which is actually very dark green. Looks great, and is quite unusual. A good metallic match for that colour is BMW Oxford Green. Get the earlier shade because they changed it for a less rich hue in about 95. It was my colour choice for the TR, until I decided to go original with Sapphire blue, then decided that was bit flat so went with a metallic match of the same colour (Audi Europa Blue Perl, LZ5T).
I worried more over the colour than any other aspect of the project. Get it wrong and you're £3000 down the chute.
Yertis, thanks heaps for the input. have yet to really shop arouind as I admit the change is probably a year or so off.... but as you know, shopping for colours can be a lot of fun. I think Jaguar may even offer a "JR Green" as an "R=type option" on their cars but im not sure. I have looked at going a blue/turquoise type colour and think ill give it more thought. I'd really like that specific JR green so that the TR7 can park next to my father's BRG E-Type and give a real jekyll-and-hyde appearance. I think there are some really nice other metallic greens outy there worth looking at. Peugeot have a "Sorrento Green" which is almost black but is a really brilliant green in strong light.... but I was perhaps looking for something with more impact that BMW one you mention might be the same colour I've seen an M5 around done in... quite testy. Either way I'm gonna be up for a large paint bill ande with the body being far less than perfect, I wanna spend a few notes on getting the metal underneath perfect before I go throwing the paint on... I'd really love a perfect glass finish. I think JR green would do a lot to really accentiate the bonnet bulges and "side swipes" on the TR7. I'd really like a more muscular look to it and was thinking about getting some small front-arch flares and larger rear-arches to accommodate possibly a wider rear axle. I dont like many of the "boxy, bolt-on" kits out there for the 7 so might see if I can get some that are more blended.... I'd like to create a more wide-body look than simply an "I've got huge flares" look.
Anyway I'm rambling (and drooling
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Anyway I'm rambling (and drooling
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Izza..... new flares and engine parts arriving next week courtesy of yer credit card 
hehe jokez. I'm just thinking along your lines now that I'm working it's time to go hard on the car and turn the "7" into something I'm truly proud of rather than merely an interim placeholder..... after all I did buy it so I could do it up
hehe jokez. I'm just thinking along your lines now that I'm working it's time to go hard on the car and turn the "7" into something I'm truly proud of rather than merely an interim placeholder..... after all I did buy it so I could do it up
If you're after a really different effect you could go with the sort of paintjob my brother's mate has on his Peugot 106.
It's a black base coat, then candy apple red over the top, then befroe the red has set a tarp is chucked over the whole car, pressed on then pulled off - gives an effect a bit like a bowling ball, looks absolutely stunning, and more than a bit different...
It's a black base coat, then candy apple red over the top, then befroe the red has set a tarp is chucked over the whole car, pressed on then pulled off - gives an effect a bit like a bowling ball, looks absolutely stunning, and more than a bit different...
I'll chip in with Brooklands Green which I've got on my Griff, chose without seeing even a swatch. Its an Aston Martin colour (that may have swayed me a bit!) and very dark (looks black at night and even had some people think so on a very cloudy day) but very clearly green when the sun comes out. Pic on my profile doesn't really do it justice.
Esprit said: I wanna spend a few notes on getting the metal underneath perfect before I go throwing the paint on... I'd really love a perfect glass finish.
I've got the "perfect glass finish" on the TR. Trouble is, keeping it perfect. I've put three (admittedly tiny) scratches on it already and I've not even got the wheels back on yet. Point being, unless you're completely anal about it, which I believe you're probably not
going for perfect glass gives you a bit of a problem. Still, it's nice while it lasts. >> Edited by yertis on Monday 4th November 14:14
Fatboy said: If you're after a really different effect you could go with the sort of paintjob my brother's mate has on his Peugot 106.
It's a black base coat, then candy apple red over the top, then befroe the red has set a tarp is chucked over the whole car, pressed on then pulled off - gives an effect a bit like a bowling ball, looks absolutely stunning, and more than a bit different...
Thought about that, dismissed it as being a little bit wanky.... dont want to look like a boyracer..... but want to have something a bit different..... want to try and strike a balance.... flashy paint jobs like that have a habit of getting keyed rather quickly and then are VERY difficult to repair as the pattern will be discontinuous with the respray..... there's a Morrie Minor down the road with one of them paint jobs and it does look rather cool with it's multi-colour flip-flop and "ruffled" surface
AlexH said: I'll chip in with Brooklands Green which I've got on my Griff, chose without seeing even a swatch. Its an Aston Martin colour (that may have swayed me a bit!) and very dark (looks black at night and even had some people think so on a very cloudy day) but very clearly green when the sun comes out. Pic on my profile doesn't really do it justice.
Know the precise colour (i think) there's a tasty DB7 down the road at a dealers (car, not drug) with a similar sounding colour... VERY seplendant on a sunny day.... i love the sheer DEPTH of the colour... it's the sort of thing I'm looking for but maybe with a few more shades of green, slightly less black to accentuate the lines. The thing i love about the JR Green is the contrast given by different greens... I've yet to see a colour that comes close
yertis: I HEAR that man.... the E-Type was glass when we got it back from the panel shop..... we've still got about 30% of the restoration to go and after all the months being covered in dust etc and one case of a moron leaning a ladder against it it's not going to be the worlds most perfect gloss when all finished. The gash the ladder caused has been repaired very nicely, almost completely undetectable after applying a single layer of paint by brush each day for a month and then gently re-buffing by hand (took me 2 days just to do this!) but there will be swirl marks evident over the whole car in the end.... but hey.... unless the car was being kept in a complete vacuum, it was going to end up this way pretty soon anyway.... especially as it's going to be used at 200km/h+ on a regular basis once its on the road so stonechips will be present!
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