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I've gone through every ad and brochure I can find and have not seen a Commando of any year in British Racing Green. Was that ever a factory color option?
 
I saw lots of 'sort of' British Racing Green fastbacks; have never seen a Roadster or Interstate with factory BRG paint. More scholarly people will likely chime in.
 
Not my image but this may shed some light.

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I have a mate who had a '72 disc braked Combat Fastback in British Racing Green back in the day.
 
Thanks for the color chart - I hadn't seen that one. So BRG...aka Dark Green :) ... WAS a factory color - at least in '71. Now I don't feel bad about my BRG 1973 850 Fastback, converted from it's original(?) black Roadster configuration. I purchased the fiberglass tank/side covers from Burton Bike Bits in '08 and the options were BRG, yellow, and unpainted. I went with BRG even though I would have preferred yellow because a good friend who lived less than a block from me here in Mexico had (has) a yellow CNW Fastback and I figured that the only two Norton Commandos known in this area shouldn't be the same model/color. The BRG is getting a bit faded so I'm thinking of repainting it. Trying to decide whether to keep it BRG or go to something else. Interestingly, my friend is thinking of having his yellow bike repainted as well. If he chooses to leave the yellow behind, I might do the yellow!
 
Thanks Bernhard, as you said interesting.
Now the question is "how accurate is my monitor colors?"
Jim
 
Brunswick Green is one awful colour .. No disrespect .... It the main colour for Eddie Fecking Stobart trucks...
 
Val Doonican has a lot to answer for but he may have got it right with this one.

Now Dinny O'Rafferty's motor car is the greatest I declare
It's made up of bits and pieces that he's picked up here and there
The engine must be ages old, but it's still got lots of power
With a gallon of stout in the petrol tank it does ninety miles an hour

What a wonderful motor car, it's the greatest ever seen
It used to be black as me father's hat, now it's forty shades of green
 
I saw an emerald green Commando along with all the colors and models at the Norton booth at a motorcycle show in Syracuse NY, around 1970, 1971. I must have been 15 or 16. The green I saw looked a bit lighter and less bright than what shows on the above sample card.
 
We had our own local Norton dealer back in the day .... seemed to me only certain colours available here : yellow , black , the metal flake orange and the mf blue ... don’t recall ever seeing a red one for example .... or any of the other colours on list .... by ‘74 this little town was chock full of Nortons, pretty cool time to be around watching packs of Commandos dicing it up on our main st. Sunday afternoons ......
 
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