What color green is this Morris Mini

[Tullamore]

I am working on restoring a Morris Mini Minor and the color green is very close to white, you can't even see it in the picture. In the trunk and under the carpet you can see it is a very light green. Does anyone know what the color is called and if there is a code to reproduce it? Also the roof is bright white, is this the correct shade of white for a 62 Morris Mini?

Here are the colors I found for 1962

Araluen Blue
Arctic Blue
Ash Grey
Aztec Turquoise
Carnation Red
Chartreuse (Aintree Green)
Cherry Red
Coral
Cumulus Grey
Empire Green
English Grey
Ocean (Rheims) Blue
Orchid
Osmond Green
Pink Beige
Platinum
Rose Beige
Rose Taupe
Sail Grey
Saxon Green
Silverpine Green
Sunburst Cream
Wangara Grey (Katoomba)
White

 

[Tullamore]

Nobody is familiar with the 1962 paint colors? I am guessing this car might be the Silverpine Green. I can't seem to take a picture of the car without it looking white but it is definitely green.

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Sure don't know that color, but the Karmann Ghia my Dad had in the mid sixties (and the car in which I learned to drive) was a greenish-white as well. Only saw a very few like it.

 

[aeronca65t]

Steve:

I'm not familiar with this shade, but a quick search seems to indicate it was used on some Australian-built Minis and MGAs. But I could find no photos.

This colour name was also used by Cadillac.

I did find ~THIS Rolls-Royce~ in Silverpine.

Your Mini looks like it's really faded.
Can you use one of those digital/electronic color matching devices to "read" a non-faded area? (in the trunk, a doorjamb, etc).
I've seen these devices at Home Depot (to match a chip of house paint). I bet the auto paint folks have something similar.

 

[Tullamore]

Someone suggested to me that the color is Fiesta Yellow and most of the Fiesta Yellow cars I can find actually look yellow but this card of paint chips shows it as a green just like our Morris looks. Does anyone sell paint chips in the BMC colors for easy color matching?

 

[Andrew Mace]

There was a mid-1960s Triumph color called Cactus Green. Here it is on a Herald:

and on a TR4:

 

[Tullamore]

I'm surprised how much I like that color on the TR4

 

[racingenglishcars]

Very nice unobtrusive colour.

I actually painted the 51 Jeep a rather similar colour.

which looks seriously different in outdoor light.

 

[MiniSim]

Hi Steve

Looks like a great project you've got there and I agree it definitely looks like Fiesta Yellow with Old English White roof. My Mum had one exactly like this in the UK in the 1970s - in some pictures of hers it looks almost white, in others more pale yellow but with a hint of green!

Yours appears to have the extra vertical grille bars for the Super version so does it also have the powder blue and grey trim?

You are probably already aware but the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust could confirm the original colours and build spec for you if you supply them with vehicle serial number.

Good luck with the restoration and please post more pics when its finished!

Simon