IIRC the blue S1 was a standard white one painted for the cats eyes series. From memory it did end up as scrap at the bottom of a quarry in the shetland isles, cos it was rotten.

Princess di's balck one was fitted with a 3i grille from new, but when sold after she'd finished with it, it was re-fitted with the correct 3 bar grille.

I wasnt aware of any other "proper" black S1's but as is often the case, ford did strange things at the time.

werent the red ones painted after production? IIRC they were painted GPO red, not rosso/radient?

Either way, theyre all lovely cars!