1957 Triumph light green paint?

[AHS]

Hi all. Thanks to the experts on this forum I've been able to determine my project TR3A (TS232xx) was built in late October 1957. It obviously came from the factory painted a very light green with a black interior. One of the local guys says this was a special color that you couldn't order and was only used on factory works cars through 1957. I think I'm being told a story here, and hopefully someone can chime in with the paint name or code and the truth about the color. I am a long way from buying paint and I was expecting to pick my own color, but if the factory color is really something special than I want to consider it.

I don't think this car is anything special, it's just a standard US spec car that came with a heater and no other options that I can determine. It was registered here in PA only 3 months after it was built. From searching old posts, I've found there was an Apple Green, ICI code 2920, available 1957-58. The only picture I found looks much darker than my car, I'd call it a medium green rather than light. Of course it's hard to tell much about color from a picture.

Any information or opinions on the color would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Andy

 

[Tr3aguy]

https://www.vtr.org/maintain/paint-charts/index.shtml Some great information here....

 

[mgedit]

Have a look at our club website (https://www.ovtc.net/index.html) ... TR3 on right is apple green I believe. Cheers, Mike

 

[Andrew Mace]

I wonder if it might be Shoal Green, which was common on Standards (and the Triumph 10 in the US) during that period of time?

It's shown in https://www.vtr.org/maintain/paint-charts/acme2.jpg.

 

[AHS]

Thank you guys. It helps to have another photo of Apple Green. I think that is closer than Shoal Green, which looks a little bit blue to me and the car doesn't. But it's hard to tell much from internet pictures & paint chips. If the color is nothing special, I'll probably pick another. Thanks for the help,
Andy

 

[Andrew Mace]

It might be worth your getting a factory build certificate for the car to see what the factory records say about the original color. Apple Green might be a bit of an acquired taste, but it was a pretty scarce color. In a quick glance through one of the Bill Piggott books, I didn't see any mention of Shoal Green on a TR, so that might be really, REALLY rare!

Regardless, if/when you do determine the original color, give some real thought to going with it if you can stand looking at it. The world has more than enough BRG and Signal Red TRs!

 

[Kleykamp]

What Andy said.