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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

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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

 

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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

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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.

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