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The colour on the Series I is not original, but it is beautiful! The Daimler VDP models from that period did have special colours but I don't think it is from that palette.
The car/colour referred to in post #9 of the bodyshop thread: this is Black Cherry, a colour introduced in the 1991 calendar year, very rare (it is my car pictured) but I am not sure that it is the colour used on the Series I - it might be, or it might be a slight variation of it. Jaguar subsequently produced several variations of Black Cherry - Morocco Red for 1994, for example, and others from 2006 onward, Caviar being one of them...all very beautiful.
Whatever it is, it really suits that Series I body.
Thanks for the replies,I wasn't sure if it was a jaguar/daimler colour.It was listed as morello colour.
Ah! Ok, Morello was indeed an original colour for the Series I Daimler Double Six/ Vanden Plas (not for the Jaguars). I was trying to remember that name. It was an early version of Black Cherry (obvious from the name) but the car pictured looks like it has been done in a modern base coat/clear coat formulation which tends to "pump up" the colour impact. No matter, it is really beautiful.
But hold on...I just looked at the ad from the selling dealer in the Netherlands and there they list the colour as one of the reds: Garnet, not Morello. Garnet was indeed an early colour and there were a few variants, so this both clarifies and muddies the water. Morello was a colour used on the Series I Daimler Double Six VDP (which this car is) but my first reaction to the photos was that this did not look like Morello - similar, but....and Garnet, as far as I know, was not a Daimler colour for the VDP cars...and then we have the fact that this is not original paint: how do we know? (apart from the fact that the paint looks to be a modern clearcoat formulation) we have the photo that shows the screws on the rear quarter panels have been painted over - always a sign of a repaint on the Series XJ cars...so, without a sample of all the variants of Garnet, Morello and Black Cherry...who knows? None of this musing alters the fact that the colour looks excellent on this car.
I consulted my Axalta (Dupont Refinishes) color catalogue and came up with the following:
Jaguar carried the following versions of the color name "Garnet":
Color code: CDN
Years of useage: 1981 - 1982
Color code: CEX
Years of useage: 2002 - 2008
The color name "Garnet" is used by a lot of different manufacturers of regular cars and trucks, including Daimler Trucks, Kenworth, Mack, Peterbilt, Western Star and Winnebago RV.
There is no mentioning whatsoever of Daimler car company or VandenPlas in any production year...
The color name "Morello" doesn't pop up with any Jaguar affiliated brands at all (except Ford Motor Co. from 2008 - 2014).
A Morello is a sour, bright red cherry in real life, so there may have been variations on the name like "Cherry Red" etc.
In the series I era, Jaguar carried only 4 colors "red":
Carmen Red, 1957 - 1968
Pale Primrose, 1964 - 1979
Regency Red, 1968 - 1979
Signal Red, 1969 - 1979
They were all Uni-colors, no metallics...
Last edited by Dutch-Cat; May 14, 2020 at 05:28 AM.
I consulted my Axalta (Dupont Refinishes) color catalogue and came up with the following:
Jaguar carried the following versions of the color name "Garnet":
Color code: CDN
Years of useage: 1981 - 1982
Color code: CEX
Years of useage: 2002 - 2008
The color name "Garnet" is used by a lot of different manufacturers of regular cars and trucks, including Daimler Trucks, Kenworth, Mack, Peterbilt, Western Star and Winnebago RV.
There is no mentioning whatsoever of Daimler car company or VandenPlas in any production year...
The color name "Morello" doesn't pop up with any Jaguar affiliated brands at all (except Ford Motor Co. from 2008 - 2014).
A Morello is a sour, bright red cherry in real life, so there may have been variations on the name like "Cherry Red" etc.
In the series I era, Jaguar carried only 4 colors "red":
Carmen Red, 1957 - 1968
Pale Primrose, 1964 - 1979
Regency Red, 1968 - 1979
Signal Red, 1969 - 1979
They were all Uni-colors, no metallics...
Uh....Pale Primrose is not red...it is a pale yellow, and here it is on my 1966 Mk 2:
No matter the name of the paint, XJ looks spectacular! As a matter of comparison, here is the 1992 Black Cherry colour:
It varies widely according to lighting conditions - another photo of the same car (which is a 1992 V12 Vanden Plas, #92 of the last 100 built):
Yup....you were in the process of desperately trying to find a flaw - which you did, eventually: a bug caught between the chrome headlamps trim and the headlamp itself. Your eyesight is/was too good.
Yup....you were in the process of desperately trying to find a flaw - which you did, eventually: a bug caught between the chrome headlamps trim and the headlamp itself. Your eyesight is/was too good.
I did? Your memory is better than my eyes. Hope you're not holding a grudge
