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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?
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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.
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The 1968 Commando which had a fastback but was not called that was the first year with BRG as an option ?
https://www.classic-british-motorcycles.com/1968-norton-commando.html
https://www.classic-british-motorcycles.com/1968-norton-commando.html
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I’ve often wondered if the romantically titled ‘British Racing Green’ would be half as popular if it was just called dark green...?
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It appears that you revolve in different social circles to me sir...
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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!
... 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!
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I have a question about BRG. Is it a particular shade of dark green or is it just a dark green? I was led to believe it was a particular shade of really really dark green.
https://www.66autocolor.com/House-of-Kolor-Black-Forest-p/hok-s2-le01.htm
https://www.66autocolor.com/House-of-Kolor-Black-Forest-p/hok-s2-le01.htm
British racing green, or BRG, is a colour similar to Brunswick green, hunter green, forest green or moss green ,as there are different shades as in other colours, hence BRG, its interesting how it came about;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_racing_green
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_racing_green
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I've always assumed that the CORRECT BRG color is the one on Jim Clark's Lotus. 
http://img05.deviantart.net/17cc/a/large/wallpaper/wautomotive/lotus_49_wallpaper.jpg
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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
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
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It's in one of the sales brochures...I believe '71 on a roadster.
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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.
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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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