What color?

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First of all, Merry Christmas to all of you!

It's fantastic how visits with family over the holiday reveal how much you're slowly losing your mind. I was always so sure that my Dads 2000TC was a 1970 in zircon blue. Turns out it was a 1969 model built in '68 and was a dark blue.
I have been looking at quite a few pics on the net and the closest in color I have found is the estate model on Scott's rubber site.
Do any of you have a Rover this shade of blue and be able to share the color code?
I'm the kid on the left with the big ears..
 

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DaveHerns said:
Anyone know what the other cars in the picture are ?
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I'm guessing of course,...but i'd say Buick and an Oldmobile of somesorts,...not sure about the colour though,....it seems a bit dark for Admiralty Blue :wink:
 
The standard colours were Corscia Blue and Zircon Blue. While it's not easy to be certain it seems too dark to be either of these so I wonder if this was a special order paint? It looks like admiralty blue which was a P5 colour

The other cars are a Pontiac - not sure which variety as some Canadian models were different to their US counterparts being built on Chevrolet running gear - and I think a Buick
 
Those were indeed the two UK colours, and I agree, much too dark for even the Zircon, which is the darker of the two by a mile. I've got a feeling there were some North America only colours as well though? Anybody got their North American brochures to hand for the 4 cylinder?

Chris
 
There's a '69-'71 2000/3500 color chart for sale on US ebay, Item number: 320304879050.
Of the two blues, zircon seems the closest.
The black car may be a pontiac laurentian, and I think the silver car was a chevrolet impala.
 
North American clours were the same as the home market at this time - I have an original colour chart and Corsica Blue is closer than Zircon but still rather too light

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