The History Of British Racing Green

[ParkerDuofold]

Hi all,

 

I originally ran this video in another thread, (https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/328221-the-most-beautiful-car-ever-built/page-1), but thought it might also have a place here... since BRG is such a popular ink color and because many of you seldom visit the Chatter section... or may not have an overt interest in cars.

 

However, you may indeed have an interest in knowing the lineage of one of your favorite ink colors.

 

http://youtu.be/6XY0FfQB_DM

 

 

Enjoy. I hope.

 

 

- Anthony

[Runnin_Ute]

A good resource for what countries were what colors is the movie Grand Prix with James Garner. In addition to Green being Britain, red for Italy, silver for Germany, white for Japan, USA became a light blue. (all these are represented in the film which was released in 1966)

[dapprman]

I thought France was light blue (hence the classic colours of Buggati race cars, etc) and the USA was yellow

[dapprman]

I was correct about France - though they may have been just blue, USA might have been a light blue as it may have been considered different. Yellow was Belgium. Actually the US changed their colours and were effectively two-tone - Blue with white, then white with blue (probably the inspiration for the Shelby stripes).

[Drawing61]

Thanks for posting. My husband once owned a BRG MGTF in the misty past before I knew him.

[praxim]

In the 1960s Brabbham painted his F1 cars green with a gold ring on the intake and stripe down the top centreline, green and gold being the national sporting colours (from wattle); much like South Africa uses. Oz sporting teams tend to emphasise gold while SA emphasises green, so you can tell them apart.

 

Not much imagination in national colours, really.

[jmccarty3]

Nice use of Sir Edward Elgar's "Nimrod" at the end of the video.

[BlazeOrangeGuy]

Thanks for this post! I enjoyed watching the vid. Now, if I could only have the impossible... a Vanwall in my garage and a couple bottles of Montblanc Racing Green on my desk.