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Posted: **Mon May 04, 2009 11:11 pm**

Reckon mine's a 91 Japanese V-Special Eunos. Has the tan leather and the Nardi stuff and is dark green. But whereas the V-Special is described as being British Racing Green, mine is a yellower, more olive/puke shade of green on the outside but looks nearer to BRG under the bonnet and boot. The olive really is a horrible colour, but this doesn't matter too much to me as it made the car cheaper and I don't see much of the colour when I'm driving it anyway.

Can anyone tell me what this colour is?

And how much it might be, ignoring any damage prep, to change the external colour only to proper BRG, which I reckon is more a very black green?

Posted: **Mon May 04, 2009 11:41 pm**

Pics?

The steering wheel in my V-Special looks like this...

Does it still have the tan floor mats? Any writing on them?
What colour are the shocks?

Posted: **Tue May 05, 2009 7:53 am**

Jeo wrote:Pics?

The steering wheel in my V-Special looks like this...

Does it still have the tan floor mats? Any writing on them?
What colour are the shocks?

Wooden Nardi steering wheel, gearlever knob and handbrake lever. No mats. Dunno about the shocks.

Posted: **Tue May 05, 2009 5:44 pm**

If it's looking a few different shades of green, it may just be that the original paint is starting to show its age

Having the wooden interior trim bits I guess yours is a 1.6 V special?
Refer here

In the case that it isn't a V special...
There were only 2 other greens,

The Sparkle Green of the Berkeley-Edition made for the UK

The Marina Green of the M-Edition made for the US

But these two were strictly 1.8s

Posted: **Tue May 05, 2009 9:34 pm**

Thanks PUR157.

Reckon that Marina Green's the go. Horrible isn't it? And in my 40 years experiance in the car trade, it's not definitely not a faded version of BRG.

But then it'd be badged Miata, not Eunos if it's ex USA????

Is there a site where I can key in the VIN and get the spec?

Posted: **Tue May 05, 2009 11:28 pm**

I can't imagine someone would have bothered importing and converting it to rhd from the states.

Posted: **Tue May 05, 2009 11:35 pm**

davekmoore wrote:
But then it'd be badged Miata, not Eunos if it's ex USA????

The steering wheel being in front of the passenger would be more of a give-away I reckon

Posted: **Tue May 05, 2009 11:52 pm**

No worries!
If yours is a '91 model though it shouldn't be the M edition... because that one was made in '97

Perhaps an overzealous apprentice painter consulted the wrong colour chart when it came time for a respray?
'coz everything else you've described about your car (interior trim) pretty much applied only to the V-Special

Posted: **Wed May 06, 2009 8:51 am**

Did they make a BRG and tan before 91?

Posted: **Wed May 06, 2009 1:59 pm**

madboy wrote:Did they make a BRG and tan before 91?

Yeah when I was working for an import dealer he got a few in under the 15 year old scheme...

Posted: **Wed May 06, 2009 2:08 pm**

Was that the one for sale cheap on carsales (WA)?
The ad says it was a respray. Absolutely shocking colour.

Posted: **Wed May 06, 2009 7:34 pm**

bruce wrote:Was that the one for sale cheap on carsales (WA)?
The ad says it was a respray. Absolutely shocking colour.

The paint is indeed a shocking colour and is in truly shocking condition too.

The car was well priced off Ebay. Do an advanced search for finished items if you fanc a look. The Melbourne seller described it as BRG but fortunately with good pics so I knew it wasn't BRG and it didn't come as a shock when I saw it.

The thing drives like a dream though. And it's pretty unlikely to get stolen.

Posted: **Thu May 07, 2009 1:17 pm**

Neo Green according to this site

Tan leather “High back” seats with headrest speakers
Nardi Wooden steering wheel / hand brake lever / gear knob
Electric windows
Chrome wing mirrors/vent rings
Air conditioning
CD player

http://ox.mx5oc.co.uk/guide_eunos.htm