NZ assembled colours

Lewis Stephens

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Greetings all,

I'm seriously looking at a NZ assembled P6B to purchase. It has an Australian 3/76 compliance plate. It is the colour Almond. I didn't think almond made it until the last batches of P6's were sent to OZ. Could almond have been a special factory order or was it in fact still available on NZ 1976 assembled P6's. ? BTW my 2 previous NZ assembled P6's that I owned were first, a Aqua colour, (1974) that I have never seen on any list of P6 colours but was not an uncommon colour over here, second, Spainish olive. (1976)

Cheers
Lewis
 
PS. I'm thinking this colour ( see attachment ) may not in fact be BL almond but a Triumph colour. The NZ assembly plant at Nelson also assembled Triumph 2500's and Jaguar XJ series 2. I seem to recall seeing Triumph's and indeed Jaguar Series 2 in this colour. What do you think ?
 

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Photos don't always show colours well. It could be Almond, but the Tiumph colour is Honeysuckle IIRC, and it's a bit lighter than Almond.
 
Photos don't always show colours well. It could be Almond, but the Tiumph colour is Honeysuckle IIRC, and it's a bit lighter than Almond.
Thanks Harvey. My guess is Almond. The car is interstate and as our borders from Victoria are closed.I can't inspect personally.
 
Thanks Harvey. My guess is Almond. The car is interstate and as our borders from Victoria are closed.I can't inspect personally.
Ask the seller to get the closest Dulux/Plascon/etc PVA swatch from a hardware shop and give you the number so you ca get an idea that way, maybe?
 
Looks like cold custard to me (inside joke) ie Almond.

I know what you mean about the NZ Nelson plant using Triumph colours, my own Nelson assembled car is Pimento Red, not one of the standard Rover colours.



Graeme
 
I know what you mean about the NZ Nelson plant using Triumph colours, my own Nelson assembled car is Pimento Red, not one of the standard Rover colours.



Graeme
Leyland plant in Blackheath, Cape Town also used whatever was in the spray gun at the time.
Their quality was legendarily shocking.
 
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