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TVR Paint Colours

TVR used to paint new cars 'any' colour you wanted! 

One of the most difficult things to do when choosing the specification for a new TVR was to know which colour to choose, as TVR would paint your new car any colour you wanted. This makes sorting out which used TVRs to look at from a selection of advertisements quite daunting, as you definitely don't want to get it wrong.  

Following a suggestion from one of our members in the Discussion Forum, in which it was commented that they were at their local dealer looking at the colour of a new demo (not a TVR) in which the swatch looked a really lovely Bronze whereas in reality the colour that turned up looked like the contents of a new born's first nappy, a thread developed in which members were invited to post pictures of their TVRs together with the official colour name in a way that best displays the colour.  That way, anyone looking for a car could then peruse the colours and if they find one of interest could then mail that person for some more pics if necessary.  Unfortunately, this thread grew rather long and took a long time to load so in an attempt to make it easier to access, it was decided to create this page to host the photographs.

The images are grouped by the main colours: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow/Orange, Silver/Grey, Purple, Black and White.  If your colour isn't shown please post a photograph with the details to uisng the form on this page.

​The TVR Car Club accepts no responsibility for the effects of photography or colour interpretation of the internet/your PC on any of the colours shown.  These pages are intended as a guide only.

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Red

Ferrari Formula Red
Pure Red
Italian Red
Chameleon Orange
Chameleon Orange
Lotus Canyon Red
Ruby Mica Red
Cherry Red Pearl
Red Glow Pearl
Maroon Red
Starmist Crimson
Rolls Royce Pearl Red paint code:P422-8AV5B
Bordeaux Metallic Red
R2741 Zyclam Red, VW code LZ3T
R2741 Zyclam Red, VW code LZ3T
Starmist Chianti
Starmist Chianti
Dark Fantasy

Blue

Starmist Blue
Midnight Pearl Blue
Midnight Blue Metallic
TVR Colour Aston Martin Mendip Blue
Aston Martin Mendip Blue
TVR Colour Avus Blue Pearl
Avus Blue Pearl
TVR Colour Red Bull Blue P965-IAVLB
Red Bull Blue P965-IAVLB
TVR Colour Imperial Blue
Imperial Blue
TVR Colour GTS Viper Blue
GTS Viper Blue
Lotus Laser Blue
Lotus Laser Blue
Nebula Blue - TVR-112
Nebula blue - TVR-112
Nebula blue - TVR-112
Nissan Sapphire Blue
Cosmos Blue - TVR 011
Halycyon Atlantis Pearl P422  HWF6B
Halycyon Atlantis Pearl P422 HWF6B
Halcyon Atlantis Pearl (P422)-HWF6B
Chameleon Blue
Chameleon Blue
Eclipse Blue
Eclipse Blue P176
Eclipse Blue
Blue Mist
Ferrari Alloy Pearl
Chalcedon Blue - Mercedes 347
Crystal Topaz
Blue Magnetique-P422-2055B

Green

Starmist Ocean Haze
Chameleon Green
Jaguar F1 Green
Californian Sage- BSB 8AJ7B
Californian sage green
Californian sage green
BMW Slate Green Pearl
Cooper green
Spectraflair Copper
Starmist Green
Ash Green
Halcyon Hebrides

Yellow / Orange/Gold

Halcyon Midas Gold
Halcyon Midas Gold
Giallo Fly Yellow
Daytona Yellow
Halcyon Midas Pearl
P422/jej3b
Macau Yellow
Camel Yellow - Paint code P420-3MN9
Lambourghini Arancio Pearl
Lambourghini Arancio Pearl
Lambourghini Arancio Pearl
Aztec Gold
Copper Cascade
Chameleon Orange

Silver / Grey

Spectraflair Silver
Spectraflair Silver
Oyster Pearl
P422-D290B Mercedes 744
Iced Titanium
BMW Dolphin Grey
Storm Grey - P422-A699B
BMW Steel Grey
Spectraflair grey
Spectraflair grey

Purple

Dark Violet P422-PK34B
Purple Tvr054
Violet Dream over Mystic Black
Paradise Purple
Paradise Purple
Cascade Violet
Jewel Violet
Ellise Violet R3021 2CYJB
Ellise Violet R3021 2CYJB
Porsche Violet Blue

Black

Mystic Black
Mystic Black
Mystic Black
Mystic Black
Mystic Black
Mystic Black
Moonraker Black
Moonraker Black
Moonraker Black
Moonraker Black
Reflex Charcoal
Reflex Charcoal
Reflex Charcoal
Reflex Charcoal
Reflex Charcoal
Reflex Charcoal
Reflex Charcoal
Reflex Charcoal
Nebular Black
Nebular Black

White

Interiors

If you thought that the exterior colours were difficult enough to select, the interior colour combinations can be even more mind boggling!
Antelope carpet/Fawn half hide
BMW Grey hide/British Green carpet
Portland Grey Hide- V109 with Pacific Blue Lthr inserts: - V1023; Carpet: Stratus Blue - V1039; Pacific Blue Lamonta (Roof Lining): - V1349
TVR T350T - Portland Grey
TVR S4C
Wedgewood hide
TVR T350
TVR Cerbera 4.5
TVR Griffith 4.3 - Green and Ocean Haze carpets
TVR V8S
TVR S2 - Magnolia and Navy blue
TVR Griffith 500 - Magnolia and Grey
TVR Tuscan
TVR Griffith

Paint Colour Codes

We are indebted to TVRCC member Steve Boyce who works in the automotive paint industry and who has kindly put together a database of all known "standard" TVR colours.  Apparently if it's not on this list, it is bespoke!
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You can access the details in an Microsoft Excel spreadsheet below.
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He also provided the TVRCC with the following explanation of the various terms used in paint nomenclature these days.  
The prefix of Reflex, Spectral, Starmist etc. is not a reference to the make-up of the paint... more of a ploy by the marketing guys to hit you in the pocket area.   This is a (very) brief description of the ins and outs of the different car paints.  
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Mainly there are solids, metallics and pearls/micas. A solid consists of a coloured base coat and a lacquer (COB or clear over basecoat) - nothing complicated there. Metallics use tiny pieces of aluminium flake that reflect light and give a sparkle effect. Pearls were originally tiny shards of 'Mother of Pearl', but even if a colour is described as a pearl nowadays, it isn't, because coloured mica is now used in its place. Mica is transparent and is able to refract light so the effect gives an impression of depth. Combine Metallic and Mica and you get reflection and refraction at the same time which can give an effect known as a 'flip'. This can make the colour appear to change within a very limited band, depending on where you are looking at it from.   

Then the colour creators started to get a bit adventurous and you would get '3 stage colours' which involve a groundcoat followed by a 2nd basecoat and a clearcoat.   Paint manufacturers have now started retrospectively reformulating colours to include specialist tinters like Xirallic. This enhances the glitter and sparkle effects  and a distinct shimmer emerges, bit it is also claimed that it increases colour purity... 

But then there is the paint world's crowning glory- Chromaflair. Unlike a mica that can flip only within its own colour, Chromaflair is a pigment that can flip within its entire colour band, so you'll get say Green to Gold, or Cyan to Purple. The miracle is it flips every colour within the band, which could be up to 5 colours!.   It is my understanding that there are only 5 different Chromaflair tinters available. These can be lightened or darkened depending on the basecoat.   

All of the above paints are fine when they leave the factory in OE guise. But OE paint is a completely different technology to refinish paint which is almost always used when you take a car into a bodyshop.   If you need a repair done and your TVR is painted in a solid, or mica/metallic colour - then don't panic  Its just a matter of 'feathering' the paint repair into the adjacent panel.... you can't see the join.   

If your TVR is painted in a 3 stage colour, then it takes a lot of labour to match a panel with the rest of the vehicle as you simply can't 'feather' the repair in - these colours are built up very slowly during the 2nd basecoat stage. Nowadays, bodyshops often ask insurers for a total respray with 3 stage colours - the time taken to match outweighs the cost of product. In most cases, labour is more expensive than product........ but there is one exception to this - Chromaflair.   

If your TVR is painted in a Chromaflair, as many of the later models are, then you start life with a really beautiful and breathtaking colour that turns heads wherever you go. However, don't think you'll ever be able to get a scratch or paint chip touched in, because you can't. The same problem applies to Chromaflair as 3 stage - repairs can't be 'feathered', they have to be edge to edge or the end result looks like a dog's dinner. You get double trouble here, because you have to have a full spray, and the product costs upto £600 a litre at trade prices. I've heard of insurers writing off Rovers sprayed in Chromaflair because the minor repair would cost far more than the vehicle was worth - just because of the paint!
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