peter moffatt Posted November 24, 2018 Report Share Posted November 24, 2018 Hello All, I have owned various TRs over the years, the first one was a white TR4 which I bought in the 1960s but after I got married our baby son was born about a year later. There was no suitable area to carry our baby son in the TR so unfortunately it had to go. In the early 70s when our son was older I then bought another TR4 which was black & I restored this car & owned for 25 years. But my first love was the TR5 so after I sold on this TR4 I was in the market for a TR5. I discovered a barn find in the early nineties for a sum of 3k. I then restored this car & had it repainted in the original Conifer green. Following on after early retirement being a pub landlord for many years I had at last found my biggest interest. So over the next many years I owned another couple of TR5s & restored them & sold them on to fund the next project. Overall I have restored 4 TR5s including one for a friend of mine & then with the TR5 prices rocketing I restored a couple of 250s which were a lot cheaper to buy. I have currently just completed a restoration of my latest 250 which I will keep because I am getting rather old & do not feel capable in carrying out further restorations. One final point is how many different colours were the TR5 painted in , so if anyone can help me also with the colour codes I would be very grateful. Many Thanks Peter Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted November 24, 2018 Report Share Posted November 24, 2018 (edited) Hi Peter, according to Bill P's book there were 8 colours. New White 19 Triumph Racing Green 25 Signal Red 32 Jasmine Yellow 34 Royal Blue 56 Valencia Blue 66 Wedgwood Blue 26 Black 11 Roger Edited November 24, 2018 by RogerH Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted November 24, 2018 Report Share Posted November 24, 2018 (edited) Interesting. In looking up the data for Peter I notice that the Blue colours are suffix 6 eg 56 for Royal Blue Except for Shadow Blue which is 27 (billy no mates) Anybody know why???? Roger Edited November 24, 2018 by RogerH Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stuart Posted November 24, 2018 Report Share Posted November 24, 2018 4 hours ago, RogerH said: Interesting. In looking up the data for Peter I notice that the Blue colours are suffix 6 eg 56 for Royal Blue Except for Shadow Blue which is 27 (billy no mates) Anybody know why???? Roger Shadow blue is a trim colour not an exterior colour. Stuart. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peter moffatt Posted November 26, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 Hello Gents Thanks for your response to my colour question , sorry for the late reply but I am having computor problems. Cheers Peter Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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