Hi All,

I am currently repainting and redoing the interior on my 68 XkE OTS 1E 16548. I have two questions:

1. Does anyone have the color code for the Dark BRG. and

2. The Heritage certificate says BRG exterior with Black Interior Trim, but all the books say that Black was not an option for interior for 68 OTS. I am going with the Heritage certificate but does that mean the books are wrong?

Thanks

 

 

On special orders cars were built to customers specs. Did include extra $.

 

BRG (British Racing Green) must be the most difficult colour to pin down. Aston Martin, Bentley and Jaguar all raced and sold BRG cars and they were all different shades!

I remember reading Jaguar alone used five different shades of BRG.

There's a UK supplier specialises in 'vintage' paint colours:

Jaguar Classic Vintage Car Paint Cellulose Codes Colours

In the Product Description section of their website is the following:

 

Thanks so much.

 

Just sent buddyluv the DuPont numbers from 68-70 there was no BRG listed from 68-69 but 70 had a BRG. The colour catalogue was from 1972.

 

Is the red e-type in picture same car? If so nice to know it is going back to original. If you can not pin point the correct color code (there are no tags on the e-types) my advice would be to do some excavating. possibly under the gas door or behind the gauge panel, under door panels and match the color found, it is not easy but chase is the fun part. If you need any info on your car I have a fairly original 1.5 1E16864. Any chance you still have original handbook and maintenance chart?

 

It is the same car, and behind the switch panel there is BRG, just trying to get the color code to match it. Wish I had the original manuals but I don't. Thanks for your ideas.

Hunter

 

Paint suppliers in the UK have a clever handheld device that analyses the colour on a panel for an exact match. The same must be available in the US?

It takes all the guesswork out of colour matching.

Graham