colour chart?

i found this chart....

http://www.adocars.com/elf-ado/elf/elfcolor.htm

so did one MK1 paint scheme have a grey body and a slightly different color grey roof??? thats what mine has (but had been repainted, poorly). i am going to drop it off today to get redone...i thought the roof's were the "OEW" white...but this chart saying otherwise.

help!!!

jon

There was doutone grey colour option for mkI Elfves. The body was Yukon Grey (Gr7) and the roof Birch Grey (Gr3).

Wolseleys had the opposit also (lightg grey body, dark grey roof.

Voila!

Very nice colour - IMHO.

Right, don't assume that all the cars had OEW roofs! Mine had been painted OEW before I got it, and it just looked wrong with the Damask Red body. It's now back to the proper Whitehall Beige.

that would explain these gems in the glove compartment:

Deffiniatly.

And that a real treasure - get a good paintshop, and get the colours mixed using the original paint. That will be spot-on original if done properly.

Using todays color charts often misleading.

CamelotR wrote:Deffiniatly.

And that a real treasure - get a good paintshop, and get the colours mixed using the original paint. That will be spot-on original if done properly.

Using todays color charts often misleading.

the cans are dry, but this place is pro, maybe they can scrape out some dry paint and match it properly.

by the way, for the record, a grey car and a grey roof of a slightly lighter color is a moronic colorway. i am going to keep it since i want this MK1 original....but what were they thinking?

That two-tone grey was used on the Mk II Elf, as well. With a red interior it really suited the car and is my favorite factory combination.

As they had cardinal red upholstery, this made the look lighter, and more elegant. In my opinion.

Elegant. Exactly the word I was looking for. And Elegant suits an Elf. I was going to write regal, but that didn't sound quite right.

cheleker wrote:Elegant. Exactly the word I was looking for. And Elegant suits an Elf. I was going to write regal, but that didn't sound quite right.

i love the grey, just prefer the white top, red top, or something more contrasting.

You can paint it OEW, is still na original scheme. Your car, Your choice.

Here you go... body colours first followed by roof colour

ELF MK1

Florentine Blue (BU7)/Old English White (WT3)
Cumberland Green (GN35)/OEW
Porcelain Green/OEW
Birch Grey (GR3)/OEW
Yukon Grey (GR7)/Birch Grey
Damask Red (RD5)/Whitehall Beige (BG4)
Chartreuse Yellow (YL2)/Florentine Blue (BU5)

HORNET MK1

Whitehall Beige/Florentine Blue (BU7)
Iris Blue (BU12)/OEW
Island Green (GN6)/OEW
Birch Grey/Yukon Grey
Yukon Grey/OEW
Pale Ivory (YL1)/Damask Red

ELF MK2

Arianca Beige (BG13)/Pale Ivory
Florentine Blue(BU7)/Florentine Blue (BU7)
Cumberland Green/OEW
Birch Grey/OEW
Yukon Grey/Birch Grey
Damask Red/Whitehall Beige (BG4)
Chartreuse Yellow/Florentine Blue (BU7)

HORNET MK2

Whitehall Beige/Florentine Blue (BU7)
Iris Blue/OEW
Glen Green (GN40)/Spruce Green (GN13)
Island Green/OEW
Birch Grey/Yukon Grey
Yukon Grey/OEW
Pale Ivory/Damask Red
Maroon B(RD23)/Toga White (WT5)
Toga White/Damask Red

ELF MK3

Arianca Beige/Pale Ivory
Florentine Blue/OEW
Persian Blue (BN39)/Snowberry White (WT4)
Fawn Brown (RD24)/Pale Ivory
Birch Grey/OEW
Birch Grey/Snowberry White
Yukon Grey/Birch Grey
Yukon Grey/Snowberry White
Damask Red/Whitehall Beige
Cumberland Green/OEW
Cumberland Green/Snowberry White
Peony Red (RD29)/Whitehall Beige
Sable (RD30)/Pale Ivory
Snowberry White/Snowberry White

HORNET MK3

Everglade Green (GN42)/Snowberry White
Glen Green/Spruce Green
Birch Grey/Yukon Grey
Cumulus Grey (GR29)/Yukon Grey
Maroon B/Toga White
Maroon B/Snowberry White
Snowberry White/Snowberry White
Snowberry White/Trafalgar Blue (BU37)
Snowberry White/Damask Red
Snowberry White/Peony Red
Toga White/Damask Red
Toga White/Trafalgar Blue

Hope that's helpful. These were the production colour schemes. Some odd colours did appear occassionly commissioned eg: Black, Silver but any combination of the above colours mis-matching those above were almost certainly after market respray's.

Cheers

Jase

thanks...going with yukon grey/oew. not correct factory, but i want the white roof, and the interior still has original yukon paint....the paint place is actually going to "reactivate" the touch up paint i had and match the yukon color, pretty cool.

not cheap though, argh

jon

My 1969 Mk3 is about to be painted after and massively expensive body shell overhaul (virtually every panel is new) I now need to make sure that I get the paint right. With regards to Jason's post above, see below. Are we 100% that Mk3s had a snowberry white roof? Most of the official info I have stops at Mk2, when it was OEW.

ELF MK3

Arianca Beige/Pale Ivory
Florentine Blue/OEW
Persian Blue (BN39)/Snowberry White (WT4)
Fawn Brown (RD24)/Pale Ivory
Birch Grey/OEW
Birch Grey/Snowberry White
Yukon Grey/Birch Grey
Yukon Grey/Snowberry White
Damask Red/Whitehall Beige
Cumberland Green/OEW
Cumberland Green/Snowberry White
Peony Red (RD29)/Whitehall Beige
Sable (RD30)/Pale Ivory
Snowberry White/Snowberry White

Do you have a Heritage Certificate for it? That would tell you for sure what it came with.

Thanks Red, that backs up Jason's post. I have the official BMC body parts catalogue for a mk1/2, but not a mk3, hence the confusion. I have never bought a certificate, partly because I suspect it will just muddy my thoughts about colour further; the guy I bought the car off told me on collection day that he'd just had the colour changed on the documents from brown to grey. I've always liked the grey he came in, but knowing that he was born a different colour would bug me.