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[mini=love]

Im wanting to paint my mini this colour, but i cant find out what it is or a paint code anywhere? Any help would be great.

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[minidaves]

antelope beige?

[Carlsmini]

Nice looking mini I like that colour.

My guess would be El Paso Beige

 

 

 

Thats just a guess tho. Dont take my word for it! lol

Edited by Carlsmini, 27 May 2013 - 05:56 PM.

[mini=love]

Cheers guys, a big help ill get down the paint show and get the two next to each other and pick which i prefer.

[Carlsmini]

Np. make sure to post up some pics of your mini when you get it painted   

[WMU 211G]

That's more like Antelope in the flesh, this is genuine El Paso beige...

 

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The 'El Paso Beige' on that printed / scanned colour chart looks much to dark! (reminds me, I've still got a pot of BMC El Paso touch up paint in the shed somewhere...)

 

Edit : just twigged, that colour chart only goes up to '67, 'Antelope' was an official Mk3 colour, intorduced in late '69...  

Edited by WMU 211G, 28 May 2013 - 01:08 PM.

[Carlsmini]

That's more like Antelope in the flesh, this is genuine El Paso beige...
 
1969 Mk2 Austin Cooper UWD 672G.jpg
 
The 'El Paso Beige' on that printed / scanned colour chart looks much to dark! (reminds me, I've still got a pot of BMC touch up paint in the shed somewhere...)

Ah right. El Paso beige does look a lot lighter on that mini in pic! Don't know why it's so much darker in chart. Lol maybe it is antelope beige.

[WMU 211G]

Well the colour chart is a scan of a print etc.... the pic of my car was taken in normal light and the colour rendition is pretty much spot on. In dull weather it looked a bit wishy washy but in full sunshine it looked very nice

 

Incidentally, a mate of mine has a Sandy Beige Mk2 S, the colour of which in a certain light looks a bit like mushroom soup! The OP's Mini definitley looks like Antelope to me. Those BMC / BL charts do occasionally have mistakes here and there, wrong shades, names and code numbers etc! The Mk3 Mini colour range had one particular shade on their charts that was never used, it was withdrawn before the first Mk3 rolled off the line... all sorts of things went on at Longbridge in those days...

 

This is Sandy Beige...

 

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Edited by WMU 211G, 28 May 2013 - 01:27 PM.

[Carlsmini]

Well the colour chart it's a scan of a print etc.... the pic of my car was taken in normal light and the colour rendition is pretty much spot on. In dull weather it looked a bit wishy washy but in full sunshine it looked very nice
 
Incidentally, a mate of mine has a Sandy Beige Mk2 S, the colour of which in a certain light looks a bit like mushroom soup! The OP's Mini definitley looks like Antelope to me.

Oh fair enough . Nice looking mini