Coronet Cream

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The defence rests, m'lud.
(That "society woman" wasn't Kay 'Petre', was it?)
Alwyn

 

[HealeyRick]

The defence rests, m'lud.
(That "society woman" wasn't Kay 'Petre', was it?)
Alwyn

Bingo! From Wikipedia: "Much later, she designed fabric patterns for the interior of the Mini and was a motoring journalist. She died in 1994, at the age of ninety-one." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Petre

Here she is hard at work

 

[Editor_Reid]

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Still no primary source (a yahoo group isn't one, and the contemporary ad makes no mention of a coronation connection - just that Petre was picking colors).

That said, I sense that the "popular belief" (see "folklore") on this subject is strong enough that resistance is futile! Here's to Coronet Cream, inexplicably the only one of a range of colors offered by Austin in 1953 to commemorate the coronation of HRH Queen Elizabeth II. [And as they say in Wikipedia: "Citation needed"]

 

[HealeyRick]

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TO CELEBRATE THE CORONATION IN 1953 AUSTIN PRODUCED A RANGE OF COLOURS CALLED 'CORONATION COLOURS' ONE OF THESE WAS 'CORONET CREAM', WHICH WE HAVE REPLICATED HERE. A SMALL RUN OF 25 ONLY WILL BE PRODUCED.​

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[HealeyRick]

For someone who'a always wanted a Coronet Cream car, there's one on BaT now, repainted in Spruce Green: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1954-austin-healey-100-4/

 

[drambuie]

Hi Rick,
I was just giving you a hard time about the cornet. Sorry, mate.
I have also heard about the impromptu car wash on the way to Buckingham Palace.
The Aston-Martin is still owned by Prince Charles, I believe it was used by Prince William for his honeymoon.

Somewhere in my faded memory bank I remember a photo taken of Prince Charles with if I remember correctly his personal Aston Martin near by. The photo captured Princess Diana sitting on the Bonnet and left wing, the photo also captured Prince Charles giving her a really nasty look as if to say...Get the **** off my Aston Martin! If I could dig the photo up I will post it.

 

[Editor_Reid]

For someone who'a always wanted a Coronet Cream car, there's one on BaT now, repainted in Spruce Green: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1954-austin-healey-100-4/

I noticed that too. The original Coronet Cream with the original red interior would be SO SPECTACULARLY cool. Oh sure, I like Spruce Green too, but to me it cries out to be returned to its original colors.

 

[HealeyRick]

Somewhere in my faded memory bank I remember a photo taken of Prince Charles with if I remember correctly his personal Aston Martin near by. The photo captured Princess Diana sitting on the Bonnet and left wing, the photo also captured Prince Charles giving her a really nasty look as if to say...Get the **** off my Aston Martin! If I could dig the photo up I will post it.

Maybe this explains the "accident."

 

[drambuie]

Maybe this explains the "accident."

. Personally, I would have used the ejection seat!

 

[CaptRandy]

Healey Museum in Vreeland NL

 

[Rozzer]

Coming very late to this discussion (largely as I took a while to get registered on here!) but just to say I have a Coronet Cream BN1 car - only problem is she is a) in pieces and b) currently a rather nasty shade of green.
The first is due to having largely dismantled her to prepare her (she's called Gidget) for Peking to Paris in 2019. The second was done to her long before I bought her under a previous owner, who also managed to perpetrate some pretty amazing bush mechanics on here! More once I get to my home computer and I can give you the VIN and such details.....

 

[Rozzer]

OK, according to the BMIHT Certificate (on which Body Number is 1360, Chassis Number is BN1-L/150638 and Engine Number is 1B/205414) my car was Coronet Cream with Red interior and Black hood; build date was 11 January 1954 and it was built as a LHD for the US market.

Some pics before I started the restoration and during.....

 

[rezqu44]

That is a very nice color for the 100!

 

[Joe_Healey]

Welcome to the small but growing coronet cream owner club.

Joe

 

[Rozzer]

Thanks gents - not sure I am fully in love with the existing colour, but given most of the paint has been removed during the restoration, we will be respraying it anyway, and Coronet Cream is the choice. Hence I found this thread, looking for the colour code

 

[HealeyRick]

Another piece of evidence for the Queen Elizabeth's coronation connection to "Coronet Cream" gleaned from watching a PBS show on British dukes. In Britain, this is a coronet:

According to Wiki: "In the United Kingdom, a peer wears his or her coronet on one occasion only: for a royal coronation, when it is worn along with coronation robes, equally standardised as a luxurious uniform." (emphasis added)

I submit, your honor, that this incontrovertibly establishes the link between the coronation and Coronet Cream.

 

[elrey]

Hear hear!

 

[Rob Glasgow]

Bully Bully!!

 

[Editor_Reid]

Thanks Rick, but I'm still in favor of harsh penalties for those who call it "Coronation" Cream. At heart I'm still part monarchist.

 

[HealeyRick]

At heart I'm still part monarchist.

As we suspected: