Miata Mailing List: September 1996, Message #0065
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   From: Gordon J Choate 

Subject: Racing colours? (Was Re: Help? Please suggest... )

   Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 18:04:38 -0500













  >>does anyone know what the "classic" racing colors would be, I've tried

  >>looking in the bookstore and library, but I have not had any luck (all

  >>the pictures were in black and white....not much help there.....)

  >

  >American racing color on the international circuit used to be white;

  >I guess it still is.  (Brit - BRG; Fr - blue; Germ - silver; Ital - red)

  >What could be more classic than white with red and blue stripes?

  >

  >Wish you the best with your new love.

  >

  >--

  >Bill Gusky and Petunia, the Wonder-Miata

  >Red '91, license "MOMENTS"





  Hmm, I recall reading a story a long time ago about the Mercedes racing

  team of the '30s.  The story was that their W125 or something was a few

  kilograms OVERweight, so they stripped off the German racing white paint

  and brought the car back to the scales in naked silver, just sneaking

  under the weight limit.  Thereafter, they always raced in silver, but

  white *was* the official German colour.



  I think the American racing colours were white *with* blue, thus all the

  Cunninghams, etc of the fifties with the blue stripes on the white cars.



  Now, does anyone know what the Canadian racing colours are?!! (I bet we

  don't have any)  (Then again, maybe it is whatever colour a Villeneuve is

  driving that day!)





  Gordon Choate

  Calgary, Alberta

  96 BRG/tan "Artoo" (Yes! He has a name!  My 8 year old decided that the

  plate "SWT 586" stood for Star Wars Trilogy, and his favourite character

  is R2D2...) (I'll just pretend that R2 is a special package only

  available in Canada!) (Artoo is wondering what colour stripes would look

  good with BRG!)

  89 Taurus SHO (would look kind of silly in stripes...)



















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