TCS Colours

[4129R]

Being a very sad person who is bored watching the European football on TV, I decided to list the colours of TCS on the Europa Registry.

I have only recorded the colours where they are clearly identifiable.

Black                            L15   161

Lagoon Blue                 L12     80

Regency Red                L11     76

Ford Tawny                  L16      49

Lotus Yellow                L07      46

Cirrus White                L04      41

Carnival Red                L05      19

Sable                          L19      14

Roman Purple             L21      13

Renault Mid Green      L17        8

Mint Green                 L29        8

Sepia                         L23         7

Olympic Blue             L26         5

Indigo                       L20         3

Glacier Blue               L18         3

Pistachio Lime Green L13         2

Monaco WEhite         L25         1

Bitter Green              L22         1

Rover Brown             L28         1

Total                                    538 cars with paint colour clearly listed

[Grumblebuns]

I hope your eyes have recovered that effort. I remembered that there was a link with all of the Lotus paint codes and a picture of the car with that color. I'll have to try to find it. Found it, it's on LEC

I have two Europas with fairly rare colors.

3923R is L18 - Glacier blue
3634R was L17, now yellow with green center stripe. I wonder if the PO kept the green the same color as the original L17 as a keep sake. 

[BDA]

If you counted my car as having L17 - Renault Mid Green, you might want to change it. It started that color but now it's '95 Corvette White (whatever the real name is). 

It's interesting that there is no BRG!

Joji, I don't think your center stripe is L17 which is a metallic color. Yours is much prettier!

[4129R]

The colours listed were the original Lotus colours listed as it came from the factory, as many have been re-sprayed in lots of different non-standard colours.

Having said that, many were listed wrong, as my Tawny car is listed black on the Vin plate, and my yellow car is listed as Tawny.

It seems the famous "in-breeding" in Norfolk has instigated colour blindness or reading capabilities.

[Grumblebuns]

Whether true or not, I've also read in the past that some cars left the factory unpainted with the dealer doing the paint to customer specs?

[Bainford]

An interesting list. I am very surprised to note the number of listed cars with L16 Tawny paint (49). This is the colour of my car, and I have only noted about three others on line over the last few years. Even when I was at LOG 33 I had several comments on how rare people thought the colour was, and some even expressed surprise that it was a Factory colour. And yet in the informal listing above it is fourth from the top. Curious.

[4129R]

I was also very surprised at the number of L16 Tawny.

My collection is 3 black, 1 Tawny, 1 Yellow, 1 Regency Red and 1 Lagoon Blue, so that seems fairly representative of their popularity.

I am not sure yet what my favourite colour is. When the Lagoon Blue is resprayed, I will have a better idea, as potentially it is my favourite. At present it has front and rear passenger side damage and the paint is flaking very badly, so the finished product is hard to visualise.

The Tawny reminds me of milk chocolate, so I am expecting it to melt in warm weather !

Alex in Norfolk. 

[3929R]

I remembered that there was a link with all of the Lotus paint codes and a picture of the car with that color. I'll have to try to find it. Found it, it's on LEC

http://www.lotus-europa.com/colors.html

[4129R]

The Glacier Blue car looks like an Excel, so I cannot tell whether I prefer Glacier or Lagoon.

Maybe paint it Glacier, and if I don't like that, leave it in the sun to warm up.

The Sable and Tawny look very similar, depending on the light/time of day the photo was taken. 

[chrisbeck]

Being a very sad person who is bored watching the European football on TV, I decided to list the colours of TCS on the Europa Registry.

I have only recorded the colours where they are clearly identifiable.

Black                            L15   161

Lagoon Blue                 L12     80

Regency Red                L11     76

Ford Tawny                  L16      49

Lotus Yellow                L07      46

Cirrus White                L04      41

Carnival Red                L05      19

Sable                          L19      14

Roman Purple             L21      13

Renault Mid Green      L17        8

Mint Green                 L29        8

Sepia                         L23         7

Olympic Blue             L26         5

Indigo                       L20         3

Glacier Blue               L18         3

Pistachio Lime Green L13         2

Monaco WEhite         L25         1

Bitter Green              L22         1

Rover Brown             L28         1

Total                                    538 cars with paint colour clearly listed

I realise I'm responding to an old post here, does anyone know if there is an active Europa register now?