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Was just thinkin, maybe my 6 is the later 75+ BRG that was mentioned?
 
Thanks, YankeeTR, that's exactly the information (X2!) I was looking for!
 
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Thanks, YankeeTR, that's exactly the information (X2!) I was looking for!

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Guy, the fella that owns the car, told me how he did it. I'm not familiar with TR250 wheels but evidently they have mounting "nubs" for their style hub caps, too.

He cut those out, replaced them with TR3 "nubs" (using a TR3 hubcap to gauge the correct depth) and welded them in.

Pretty simple and cool..
 
Thanks, Yankee TR, I suspected as much; there's a 250 wheel on ebay right now, and it looked like those nubs had more "height" than the standard TR3 wheel. I'll have to see if the big 3 sell those nubs; I've got 4 TR6 wheels right now I could weld them to... Thanks again for the followup!
 
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Was just thinkin, maybe my 6 is the later 75+ BRG that was mentioned?

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The I.D. plate on the drivers door jamb should show your paint code number. I see only two greens listed for '75. Those being 'Racing Green' and 'Java Green'. That definitely doesn't look like 'Java'.

Your paint code should be '75'. It's also possible that your car is really a late '74, if so your paint code could be '65' and that would make it 'Emerald'.

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I wanted my last MGB to be BRG, so I go to the paint store and try to have them look it up (The car was originally "tundra", which is a kind way of saying olive drab /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/pukeface.gif)Anyway the closest we could get was "English Racing Green" which was an Alfa Romeo color. It was perfect. Of course, I couldn't tell anyone that I had an Italian color on my english car. And the color an my English Ford is "Bavarian Green"!
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If you want to match a color, for instance repaint the outside of the car and leave the trunk, interior and engine bay alone, a good technique is to have a professional paint vendor ( I have used an area PPG jobber.) shoot some samples with his color-reading computer. My paint job is totally custom ( a mistake ) and needed some additional paint for touch-up. We shot four areas on the car and came up with an average. The 1/2 pint of paint he mixed was a perfect color match, even though they were two totally different paint systems. The car is basecoat/clearcoat and the touch-up is straight acrylic enamel. And they will give you the formula for future needs.
 
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Was just thinkin, maybe my 6 is the later 75+ BRG that was mentioned?

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The I.D. plate on the drivers door jamb should show your paint code number. I see only two greens listed for '75. Those being 'Racing Green' and 'Java Green'. That definitely doesn't look like 'Java'.

Your paint code should be '75'. It's also possible that your car is really a late '74, if so your paint code could be '65' and that would make it 'Emerald'.

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Ok, I should have mentioned that mine was originally redish orange(looks like it might have been pimento red) but when it was restored in 98 someone changed the color to this green.Since they paited the engine compartment, and I am kinda indifferent about what color it is I figure I'll just stick with the green and not have to repaint the engine compartment/trunk.
 
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